title: Departmental Council of Haute-Corse
text: # Departmental Council of Haute-Corse
  
  The Departmental Council of Haute-Corse (French: Conseil départemental de la Haute-Corse, Corsican: Cunsigliu dipartimentale di u Cismonte) was the deliberative assembly of the French department of Haute-Corse, a decentralized territorial collectivity from 1976 to 2017. Its headquarters were in Bastia. Following the territorial reform of 2015, the two departmental councils of Corsica (Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud) merged on January 1, 2018 with the Territorial Collectivity of Corsica, which already exercised the powers of a region with special status, to form the Collectivity of Corsica.
  
  ## Composition
  
  ### The President
  
  François Orlandi (PRG) was elected on January 20, 2015 following the resignation of Joseph Castelli announced on December 22, 2014.
  
  ### Vice-presidents (as of 2015)
  
  | Order | Name | Party | Group |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1st | Francis Giudici | DVD, Giacobbiste | Democrats |
  | 2nd | Antoinette Salducci | DVD | Progressive |
  | 3rd | Pierre Siméon de Buochberg | DVD | Corsican 21 |
  | 4th | Catherine Cognetti-Turchini | DVG | Progressive |
  | 5th | Marc-Antoine Nicolaï | DVD | Democrats |
  | 6th | Élisabeth Santelli | DVD | Corsica Democrazia |
  | 7th | Yannick Castelli | PRG | Progressive |
  | 8th | Charlotte Terrighi | DVD | Progress Liberals |
  | 9th | Michel Simonpietri | DVG | Corsica Democrazia |
  