The politics of

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

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, takes place in a framework of a presidential

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, whereby the President of the Regional Council is the

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, and of a pluriform

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is vested in the regional council.

Executive

The executive of the region is led by the President of the Regional Council.

Legislative branch

The Regional Council of Alsace (''Conseil régional d'Alsace'') is composed of 37 councillors, elected by

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in a

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. The winning list in the second round is automatically entitled to a quarter of the seats. The remainder of the seats are allocated through

with a 5% threshold. The Council is elected for a six-year term.

Current composition

Elections

Other elections

In the 2007 legislative election, thirteen out of the sixteen Alsatian deputies were from the UMP, one was from the opposition PS, and one was from the UMP's coalition partner, the

New Centre The Centrists (french: Les Centristes, LC), formerly known as New Centre (''Nouveau Centre'', NC) and European Social Liberal Party (''Parti Social Libéral Européen'', PSLE), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of ...

. One deputy, Éric Straumann, was a UMP dissident.

References

External links

Alsace Region
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