Departmental Council of Loire-Atlantique

Departmental Council of Loire-Atlantique Conseil départemental de la Loire-Atlantique
Flag of the Council
Leadership
President	Michel Ménard, PS since 1 July 2021
Website
www.loire-atlantique.fr

The Departmental Council of Loire-Atlantique (French: Conseil départemental de la Loire-Atlantique, Breton: Kuzul-departamant Liger-Atlantel), called the 'General Council of Loire-Inférieure' between 1800 and 1957, then 'General Council of Loire-Atlantique' until 2015, is the deliberative assembly of the French department of Loire-Atlantique. Its headquarters are in Nantes.

Executive

The President

The president of the Loire-Atlantique departmental council has been Michel Ménard (PS) since July 1, 2021.^[1]

The vice-presidents

The president of the departmental council is assisted by 15 vice-presidents chosen from among the departmental councillors. Each of them has a delegation of authority.

Composition

The Loire-Atlantique departmental council includes 62 departmental councilors from each of the 31 cantons of Loire-Atlantique.

Composition (by party)[4]
Party	Acronym		Seats
Majority (40 seats)
Miscellaneous left		DVG	16
Union of the Left and the Ecologists		UGE	8
Socialist Party		PS	6
Union of the Left		UG	6
Divers		DIV	4
Opposition (22 seats)
Miscellaneous right		DVD	8
Union of the Right		UD	8
Union of the Right and Centre		UDC	4
Union of Democrats and Independents		UDI	2

The delegations

The departmental council has decentralized part of its services within six territorial delegations.^[5] These bring together services dedicated to solidarity, planning and local development.

• Delegation of Nantes, located at 26 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Nantes, it covers the territory of the Nantes Metropolis.
• Delegation of Saint-Nazaire, located at 12, place Pierre-Semard in Saint-Nazaire and 90 rue Maurice Sambron in Pontchâteau.
• Delegation of Pays de Retz, located at 10-12, rue du Docteur-Guilmin in Pornic and 6, rue Galilée in Machecoul.
• Delegation of Châteaubriant , located at 10, rue d'Ancenis in Châteaubriant and at 29, route de Nantes in Nozay.
• Delegation of Vignoble, located at 2, cours des Marches-de-Bretagne in Clisson.
• Delegation of Ancenis, located at 118, place du Maréchal-Foch in Ancenis.

Headquarters

The Hôtel de Département, adjoining the Hôtel de Préfecture de la Loire-Atlantique, located on the Quai Ceineray, is partly made up of two private mansions, the Hôtel Mellient [fr] and the Hôtel Urvoy de Saint-Bedan [fr], dating from the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century.

The department's administrative services building, less than 100 meters from the department hall, dates from 2011, and was built on the site of Nantes' first power plant (1891), whose new building preserved three stone portals of the facade.

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