The Regional Council of Hauts-de-France (
French
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: ''Conseil régional des Hauts-de-France'') is the
deliberative assembly of the
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its Prefectu ...
region in Northern
France.
It was named Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie before the vote of the regional councillors on 14 March 2016 on the name of the new region, after public consultation. This new name had however to be confirmed by the
Government of France
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and
Conseil d'État by the decree of 28 September 2016.
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Décret n°2016-1265 du 28 septembre 2016 portant fixation du nom et du chef-lieu de la région Hauts-de-France, publié au Journal Officiel du 29 septembre 2016.
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'' Le Monde'', 31 July 2015. Since 4 January 2016, the body has been presided over by Xavier Bertrand.
History
The Regional Council of Hauts-de-France, created by the law on the delimitation of regions, regional and departmental elections and modifying the electoral calendar of 16 January 2015 with effect from 1 January 2016, is the result of the merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie, which respectively comprised 113 and 57 elected representatives (170 cumulated regional councillors).
Lille is the prefecture
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of the new region of Hauts-de-France. This choice was made final by a decree issued by the Conseil d'État on 28 September 2016, with Xavier Bertrand, chairman of the board having decided during the campaign to have Lille designated as the final regional capital. Regional deliberative bodies sit:
* at the regional services headquarters, at 151 Avenue du Président-Hoover, Lille, for plenary sessions.
* at the Hôtel de Région, at the 15 Mail Albert 1er in Amiens for permanent commissions.
Article 5 of the Act of 16 January 2015 establishes 170 the number of regional councillors; it distributes the number of candidates by departmental section for the December 2015 elections: 17 for Aisne
Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.[Nord
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; 25 for Oise; 44 for Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
; 18 for Somme (department), Somme.
References
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Regional councils of France, Hauts-de-France