title: Vichy Communauté
text: # Vichy Communauté
  
  Vichy Communauté is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Vichy. It is located in the Allier department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, central France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Vichy. Its area is 741.3 $km^2.$ Its population was 82,810 in 2019, of which 24,980 in Vichy proper.
  
  ## Composition
  
  The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 39 communes:
  
  * Abrest
  * Arfeuilles
  * Arronnes
  * Bellerive-sur-Allier
  * Billy
  * Bost
  * Brugheas
  * Busset
  * La Chabanne
  * La Chapelle
  * Charmeil
  * Châtel-Montagne
  * Châtelus
  * Cognat-Lyonne
  * Creuzier-le-Neuf
  * Creuzier-le-Vieux
  * Cusset
  * Espinasse-Vozelle
  * Ferrières-sur-Sichon
  * La Guillermie
  * Hauterive
  * Laprugne
  * Lavoine
  * Magnet
  * Mariol
  * Le Mayet-de-Montagne
  * Molles
  * Nizerolles
  * Saint-Clément
  * Saint-Germain-des-Fossés
  * Saint-Nicolas-des-Biefs
  * Saint-Pont
  * Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat
  * Saint-Yorre
  * Serbannes
  * Seuillet
  * Vendat
  * Le Vernet
  * Vichy
  
  ## Administration
  
  ### Elected members
  
  The communauté d'agglomération is directed by a conseil communautaire composed of 77 members representing each of the member communes. Their proportional division is fixed by the prefectorial decree $n^o$ 2669/2019 of 30 October 2019.
  
  | Number of delegates | Communes |
  | - | - |
  | 20 | Vichy |
  | 10 | Cusset |
  | 6 | Bellerive-sur-Allier |
  | 3 | Saint-Germain-des-Fossés |
  | 2 | Abrest, Creuzier-le-Vieux, Saint-Yorre |
  | 1 (+ 1 substitute) | remaining communes |
  
  ### Presidency
  
  List of successive presidents of the Vichy Communauté :
  
  | In office | In office | Name | Party | Party | Capacity | Ref. |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 27 January 2017 | 7 October 2017 | Claude Malhuret | | LR | Mayor of Vichy (1989-2017) Senator from Allier (since 2014) | |
  | 7 October 2017 | Incumbent | Frédéric Aguilera | | LR | Mayor of Vichy (since 2017) | |
  