| Background Color: | gold |
| Departmental Council of Vaucluse | |
| Native Name: | Conseil départemental de Vaucluse |
| Leader1: | Dominique Santoni |
| Leader1 Type: | President |
| Party1: | LR |
| Election1: | 1 July 2021 |
| Session Room: | Avignon - Hotel du Département.JPG |
| Meeting Place: | Headquarters of the Vaucluse departmental council in Avignon |
| Foundation: | 25 June 1793[1] |
| Logo Res: | 220px |
The Departmental Council of Vaucluse is the deliberative assembly of the French department of Vaucluse. The president of the council is Dominique Santoni (LR), since 2021.[2]
The departmental council includes 34 departmental councilors from the 17 cantons of Vaucluse.[3]
| Majority (12 seats) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Republicans | LR | 10 | ||
| Radical Party | PR | 1 | ||
| Miscellaneous right | DVD | 1 | ||
| Left opposition (12 seats) | ||||
| Socialist Party | PS | 5 | ||
| Miscellaneous left | DVG | 4 | ||
| Europe Ecology – The Greens | EELV | 2 | ||
| French Communist Party | PCF | 1 | ||
| Far-right opposition (8 seats) | ||||
| National Rally | RN | 6 | ||
| League of the South | LS | 2 | ||
| Others (2 seats) | ||||
| Party | Reference | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 1922 | Achille Maureau | AD | [4] | ||
| 1922 | 1940 | Ulysses Fabre | PR | [5] | ||
| 1945 | 1948 | Gabriel Biron | PS | |||
| 1948 | 1951 | Charles Martel | PR | [6] | ||
| 1951 | 1970 | Jules Niel | PR | |||
| 1970 | 1992 | Jean Garcin | PS | [7] | ||
| 1992 | 1998 | Regis Deroudilhe | RPR | |||
| 1998 | 2001 | Jacques Bérard | RPR | [8] | ||
| 2001 | 2015 | Claude Haut | PS | [9] | ||
| 2015 | 2021 | Maurice Chabert | LR | [10] | ||
| 2021 | In progress | Dominique Santoni | LR |
| Order | Name[11] | Party | Canton (constituency)[12] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Élisabeth Amoros | LR | Cavaillon | ||
| 2nd | Susanne Bouchet | DVD | Cheval-Blanc | ||
| 3rd | Pierre Gonzalvez | LR | L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue | ||
| 4th | Christelle Jablonski-Castanier | LR | Sorgues | ||
| 5th | Thierry Lagneau | LR | Sorgues | ||
| 6th | Patrick Merle | DVD | Apt | ||
| 7th | Christian Mounier | DVD | Cheval-Blanc | ||
| 8th | Corinne Testud-Robert | LR | Valréas | ||
| 9th | Jean-Baptiste Blanc | LR | Cavaillon | ||
The Vaucluse departmental council manages 16 Espaces Départemental des Solidarités (EDeS or).[13] These EDeS have four essential tasks: prevention of exclusion; maternal and infantile protection (medical, psychological, social and educational prevention for the health of future parents and children, actions for children at risk and prevention of ill-treatment, prevention actions, screening for disabilities in children aged 0 to 6, approval and training of childminders); assistance for the elderly and disabled; and health prevention and health actions.[14]
All the services of the Vaucluse departmental council are relayed to 5 Houses of the Department in the municipalities of Apt, Orange, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Carpentras and Sault where help and information are offered to facilitate the daily life of the inhabitants.