Council of Paris

The Council of Paris (Conseil de Paris) is the deliberative body responsible for the governing of Paris, the capital of France. It possesses simultaneously the powers of a Paris City Council (Conseil municipal) and those of a General Council for the Département de Paris, as defined by the so-called PLM Law (Loi PLM) of 1982 that redefined the governance of Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles. Paris is, in effect, the only city in France to be, at one time, a commune (city or town) and a département (county, shire, or state), and this arrangement has been a fact even longer, since the passage of the law of 10 July 1964 which totally reorganized the Paris region.

The mayor of Paris presides over the Council of Paris and therefore holds in her hands the powers of mayor and of president of the departmental council. There are presently 163 councillors for Paris.

The 'hybrid' government

Each of the arrondissements of Paris has a directly elected council (conseil d'arrondissement), which, in turn, elects an arrondissement mayor. A selection of members from each arrondissement council form the Council of Paris (Conseil de Paris), the body which elects the mayor of Paris.

Although the history of Paris is long, that of its municipal government, in its present form, is less than half a century old. Paris and its environs were always governed directly by the highest French polity of the time: the Crown before the French Revolution, and a state-appointed préfet (governing the Seine département) afterwards. The office of mayor of Paris existed for brief periods during the 18th and 19th centuries, but it was not an institution of government before 1977.

Although Paris has a double role as a commune and as a département, it has a unique method for governing both; the Council of Paris, with the Mayor of Paris as its president, meets either as a municipal council (conseil municipal) or as a departmental council (conseil général) depending on the issue to be debated.

The modern administrative organization of Paris still retains some traces of its previous incarnation as the government of the Seine département. The Préfecture de Police (which also has authority over the fire brigades of Paris), for example, has still a jurisdiction extending to the petite couronne (small corona or halo) of Paris, the three bordering départements (Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts de Seine, and Val de Marne) for some operations such as fire protection and rescue operations, and the Préfecture de Police is still directed by France's national government. Paris has no municipal police force, although it does have its own brigade of traffic wardens.

Councillors elected for the 2008-2014 term

• PCF = French Communist Party
• PG = Parti de gauche
• NC = Nouveau Centre (New Center and Independents)
• PS = Parti socialiste
• UMP = Union pour un mouvement populaire
• EELVA = Europe Écologie–The Greens

Name	Party Affiliation	Arrondissement
Berthout, Florence	UMP	1st
Dagoma, Seybah	PS	1st
Legaret, Jean-François	UMP	1st
Boutault, Jacques	EELVA	2nd
Schapira, Pierre	PS	2nd
Wieviorka, Sylvie	PS	2nd
Aidenbaum, Pierre	PS	3rd
Caron-Thibault, Gauthier	PS	3rd
Montacié, Camille	PS	3rd
Bertinotti, Dominique	PS	4th
Girard, Christophe	PS	4th
Roger, Vincent	UMP	4th
Bach, Marie-Chantal	UMP	5th
Cohen-Solal, Lyne	PS	5th
Saint-Étienne, Christian	Centre et indépendants	5th
Tibéri, Jean	UMP	5th
Bertrand, Geneviève	Centre et indépendants	6th
Lecoq, Jean-Pierre	UMP	6th
Lévy, Romain	PS	6th
Dati, Rachida	UMP	7th
Dauvergne, Emmanuelle	UMP	7th
Dumont, Michel	UMP	7th
Namy-Caulier, Martine	UMP	7th
Pozzo di Borgo, Yves	Centre et indépendants	7th
Lebel, François	UMP	8th
Lellouche, Pierre	UMP	8th
Merigot de Treigny, Martine	UMP	8th
Bravo, Jacques	PS	9th
Bürkli, Delphine	UMP	9th
Morel, Claire	PS	9th
Véron, Pauline	PS	9th
Asmani, Lynda	Centre et indépendants	10th
Dubarry, Véronique	EELVA	10th
Féraud, Rémi	PS	X^e
Gaudillère, Bernard	PS	X^e
Lhostis, Alain	PC	X^e
Trostiansky, Olga	PS	X^e
Assouline, Daniel	PS	XI^e
Bidard, Hélène	PC	XI^e
Bloche, Patrick	PS	XI^e
Boistard, Pascale	PS	XI^e
Capelle, Liliane	PS	XI^e
Ducloux, Philippe	PS	XI^e
Errecart, Maïté	PS	XI^e
Flam, Mireille	PS	XI^e
Sarre, Georges	Non inscrit	XI^e
Tissot, Claude-Annick	UMP	XI^e
Vauglin, François	PS	XI^e
Blumenthal, Michèle	PS	XII^e
Charnoz, Sandrine	PS	XII^e
Corbière, Alexis	PG	XII^e
Missika, Jean-Louis	PS	XII^e
Montandon, Valérie	UMP	XII^e
Najdovski, Christophe	EELVA	XII^e
Rey, Gérard	UMP	XII^e
Sautter, Christian	PS	XII^e
Taïeb, Karen	PS	XII^e
Vieu-Charier, Catherine	PC	XII^e
Barthe, Marie-Annick	PS	XIII^e
Becker, Emmanuelle	PC	XIII^e
Bros, Jean-Bernard	PS	XIII^e
Contassot, Yves	EELVA	XIII^e
Coumet, Jérôme	PS	XIII^e
Cuignache-Gallois, Edith	Centre et indépendants	XIII^e
de La Gontrie, Marie-Pierre	PS	XIII^e
Julliard, Bruno	PS	XIII^e
Lang, Anne-Christine	PS	XIII^e
Le Guen, Jean-Marie	PS	XIII^e
Moine, Philippe	PS	XIII^e
Olivier, Annick	PS	XIII^e
Trémège, Patrick	UMP	XIII^e
Arrouze, Aline	PC	XIV^e
Carrère-Gée, Marie-Claire	UMP	XIV^e
Cherki, Pascal	PS	XIV^e
Christienne, Odette	PS	XIV^e
Dutrey, René	EELVA	XIV^e
Martins, Jean-François	Non inscrit (MoDem)	XIV^e
Mercier, Étienne[1]	PS	XIV^e
Polski, Olivia	PS	XIV^e
Pourtaud, Danièle	PS	XIV^e
Sanches Ruivo, Hermano	PS	XIV^e
Alayrac, Gilles	PS	XV^e
Bruno, Catherine	Centre et indépendants	XV^e
Charon, Pierre	UMP	XV^e
Cherioux de Soultrait, Joëlle	UMP	XV^e
Courtois, Daniel-Georges	UMP	XV^e
d'Aboville, Gérard	UMP	XV^e
Dargent, Claude	PS	XV^e
de Clermont-Tonnerre, Claire	UMP	XV^e
Destrem, Alain	UMP	XV^e
Goujon, Philippe	UMP	XV^e
Hidalgo, Anne	PS	XV^e
Lalem, Fatima	PS	XV^e
Lamour Jean-François	UMP	XV^e
Macé de Lepinay, Hélène	UMP	XV^e
Menguy, Jean-Baptiste	UMP	XV^e
Poirault-Gauvin, Géraldine	UMP	XV^e
Tachene, Anne	Centre et Indépendants	XV^e
Alphand, David	UMP	XVI^e
Auriacombe, Pierre	UMP	XVI^e
Boulay-Esperonnier, Céline	UMP	XVI^e
Debré, Bernard	UMP	XVI^e
Dreyfuss, Laurence	UMP	XVI^e
Gaboriau, Pierre	UMP	XVI^e
Giazzi, Danièle	UMP	XVI^e
Goasguen, Claude	UMP	XVI^e
Harel, Marie-Laure	UMP	XVI^e
Helard, Éric	Centre et indépendants	XVI^e
Hoffenberg, Valérie	UMP	XVI^e
Mano, Jean-Yves	PS	XVI^e
Sachs, Valérie	Centre et indépendants	XVI^e
Benessiano, Hervé	UMP	XVII^e
Berthault, Jean-Didier	UMP	XVII^e
Coudert, Thierry	UMP	XVII^e
de Panafieu, Françoise	UMP	XVII^e
Douvin, Laurence	UMP	XVII^e
Dubus, Jérôme	Centre et indépendants	XVII^e
Dumas, Catherine	UMP	XVII^e
Gachet, Isabelle	PS	XVII^e
Gasnier, Fabienne	Centre et indépendants	XVII^e
Klugman, Patrick	PS	XVII^e
Kuster, Brigitte	UMP	XVII^e
Lepetit, Annick	PS	XVII^e
Stein, Richard	UMP	XVII^e
Bournazel, Pierre-Yves	UMP	XVIII^e
Bouygues, Claudine	PS	XVIII^e
Brossat, Ian	PC	XVIII^e
Caffet, Jean-Pierre	PS	XVIII^e
Decorte, Roxane	UMP	XVIII^e
Delanoë, Bertrand	PS	XVIII^e
El Khomri, Myriam	PS	XVIII^e
Fournier, Danielle	EELVA	XVIII^e
Garel, Sylvain	EELVA	XVIII^e
Goldgrab, Laurence	PS	XVIII^e
Guillot, Didier	PS	XVIII^e
Le Strat, Anne	PS	XVIII^e
Pigeon, Frédérique	PS	XVIII^e
Vaillant, Daniel	PS	XVIII^e
Brossel, Colombe	PS	XIX^e
Dagnaud, François	PS	XIX^e
Filoche, Léa	PS	XIX^e
Giannesini, Jean-Jacques	UMP	XIX^e
Jemni, Halima	PS	XIX^e
Madec, Roger	PS	XIX^e
Markovitch, Daniel	PS	XIX^e
Onghena, Anne-Constance	UMP	XIX^e
Peninou, Mao	PS	XIX^e
Richard, Firmine	PS	XIX^e
Stievenard, Gisèle	PS	XIX^e
Vuillermoz, Jean	PC	XIX^e
Assouline, David	PS	XX^e
Bache, Marinette	PS	XX^e
Bargeton, Julien	PS	XX^e
Baupin, Denis	EELVA	XX^e
Benguigui, Yamina	PS	XX^e
Bouakkaz, Hamou	PS	XX^e
Calandra, Frédérique	PS	XX^e
Charzat, Michel	EELVA	XX^e
Daspet, Virginie	PS	XX^e
Giboudeaux, Fabienne	EELVA	XX^e
Lopez, Katia	EELVA	XX^e
Mansat, Pierre	PC	XX^e
Simonnet, Danielle	PG	XX^e

References

1. Mercier replaces Pierre Castagnou who died 24 February 2009.

See also

• List of Paris' councillors (2014-2020)
• Municipal arrondissements of France
• Paris Fire Brigade
• Prefecture of Police
• Seine (department)
• Seine-et-Oise