The departmental commission on intercommunal co-operation (CDCI) [fr] of the Cantal department met to examine the draft departmental plan for inter-municipal cooperation.[1] On 7 March 2017, the CDCI approved, after examination of amendments, a plan that provided for six intercommunalities for the entirety of the Cantal department from 1 January 2017.[2][3] This plan was stopped by the Prefect of Cantal on 30 March 2016.[4]
Resistance from numerous communauté de communes to the project to fuse intercommunalities led to abandonmont of part of the legislative project. Finally, on 1 January 2017, the intercommunalities of the Cantal department numbered a total of nine moving forward.[5]