Departmental Council of Vaucluse
# Departmental Council of Vaucluse

The Departmental Council of Vaucluse (French: Conseil départemental de 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) :

| Party | Acronym | Elected |
| - | - | - |
| 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) ||||

### Presidents

List of successive presidents of the departmental council of Vaucluse since 1912 :

| Period | Period | Name | Party |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1912 | 1922 | Achille Maureau | AD |
| 1922 | 1940 | Ulysses Fabre | PR |
| 1945 | 1948 | Gabriel Biron | PS |
| 1948 | 1951 | Charles Martel | PR |
| 1951 | 1970 | Jules Niel | PR |
| 1970 | 1992 | Jean Garcin | PS |
| 1992 | 1998 | Regis Deroudilhe | RPR |
| 1998 | 2001 | Jacques Bérard | RPR |
| 2001 | 2015 | Claude Haut | PS |
| 2015 | 2021 | Maurice Chabert | LR |
| 2021 | In progress | Dominique Santoni | LR |

### Vice-presidents

| Order | Name | Party | Canton (constituency) |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 |

## Organization and competencies

### Espaces Départemental des Solidarités

The Vaucluse departmental council manages 16 Espaces Départemental des Solidarités (EDeS or transl. Departmental Spaces of Solidarity). 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.

