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.
Composition Current elected officials The departmental council includes 34 departmental councilors from the 17 cantons of Vaucluse. +Composition (by party)PartyAcronymElectedMajority (12 seats)The RepublicansLR10Radical PartyPR1Miscellaneous rightDVD1Left opposition (12 seats)Socialist PartyPS5Miscellaneous leftDVG4Europe Ecology – The GreensEELV2French Communist PartyPCF1Far-right opposition (8 seats)National RallyRN6League of the SouthLS2Others (2 seats)
Presidents +List of successive presidents of the departmental council of Vaucluse since 1912PeriodNamePartyReference19121922Achille MaureauAD19221940Ulysses FabrePR19451948Gabriel BironPS19481951Charles MartelPR19511970Jules NielPR19701992Jean GarcinPS19921998Regis DeroudilheRPR19982001Jacques BérardRPR20012015Claude HautPS20152021Maurice ChabertLR2021In progressDominique SantoniLR
Vice-presidents OrderNamePartyCanton (constituency)1stÉlisabeth AmorosLRCavaillon2ndSusanne BouchetDVDCheval-Blanc3rdPierre GonzalvezLRL'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue4thChristelle Jablonski-CastanierLRSorgues5thThierry LagneauLRSorgues6thPatrick MerleDVDApt7thChristian MounierDVDCheval-Blanc8thCorinne Testud-RobertLRValréas9thJean-Baptiste BlancLRCavaillon
Organization and competencies Espaces Départemental des Solidarités The Vaucluse departmental council manages 16 Espaces Départemental des Solidarités (EDeS or ). 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.
Decentralized services 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.
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