Departmental Council of Pyrénées-Orientales

The current President of Departmental Council of Pyrénées-Orientales (Président du conseil départemental des Pyrénées-Orientales) is Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent of the Socialist Party (PS), who succeeded Christian Bourquin (PS) on 21 November 2010 after a short interim by Jean-Jacques Lopez.

The General Council has a policy of cooperation with the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Province of Girona and Andorra to create a Catalan Eurodistrict.

It says in the Preamble: "Catalan, is born more than a thousand years, is one of the pillars of our identity, heritage and richness of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales (Northern Catalonia).

[needs update] On April 2, 2007, the General Council first decided to purchase defibrillators for 22 municipalities located more than 20 minutes from emergency medical services.

[31] The devices require a telephone line and an ADSL connection, and their ground support equipment makes use of GPS.