title: Departmental Council of Vaucluse
text: # 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.
  
  