The Departmental Council of Loire (, ) is the

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of the

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. It consists of 42 members (''departmental councilors'') elected for a 6-years term and its headquarters are in

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...

, capital of the department.

Executive

President

The

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is Georges Ziegler ( LR), departmental councilor elected from the

canton of Saint-Étienne-1 The canton of Saint-Étienne-1 is an administrative division of the Loire department, in eastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Étienne. It consists of the f ...

on 16 October 2017 (re-elected in 2021).

List of successive presidents

* 1902-1917 : Gabriel Réal * 1917-1919 : Jean Morel * 1919-1921 : Albert Boël * 1921-1931 : Antoine Durafour * 1931-1934 : Fernand Merlin * 1934-1940 : Jean Neyret * 1945-1949 : Aimé Malécot * 1949-1979 :

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* 1979-1994 : Lucien Neuwirth * 1994-2008 :

Pascal Clément Pascal Clément (12 May 1945 – 21 June 2020) was a French politician, member of the UMP. He was a member of the National Assembly of France for the sixth district, encompassing the Loire. He served as Minister of Parliamentary Relations fr ...

* 2008-2017 : Bernard Bonne * 2017-Incumbent : Georges Ziegler

Vice-presidents

Composition

The Departemental Council consists of 42 councillors (''conseillers départementaux'') who come from the 21 cantons of Loire. They are elected for a 6-years term.

References

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