Provinces, cantons and parishes characteristics

What is a province?

• It has a canton

• It is a political-administrative division made up of cantons.

• It is a political-administrative division made up of parishes.

What is a canton?

• They are second-level divisions. There are 221 cantons in the country.

• They have both: the major and the prefect.

• They are subdivided into parishes.

Cantons are divided in:

(a)  

According to the article 225, the constitution rules

• Each canton constitutes a cantonal council.

• Each canton constitutes a cantonal meeting.

• Each canton constitutes a cantonal board.

We also recognize as territorial components the communities, the communes and the neighborhoods.

• True

• False

Rural parishes are made up of popularly elected members, whose the most voted member will preside.

• True

• False

How do we call the territorial components according to the Constituttion?

(a)  

Who is the leader of the Regional level?

• The governor and vice-governor

• The prefect and the vice-prefect

• The major and the vice-major

Who is the leader of the Provincial level?

• The prefect and the vice prefect

• The vice-prefect

• The major

Write the leaders of the Cantonal level

(a)