page_title: Alpes-Maritimes
section_title: Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes
hierarchical_section_title: Alpes-Maritimes / Administration / Politics / Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Photo Charles Ange GINESY, Président du Département des Alpes-Maritimes
context_page_description: Alpes-Maritimes is a department of France located in the extreme southeast corner of the country, on the border with Italy and on the Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it had a population of 1,083,310 in 2017.
  It has become in recent years one of the world's most attractive destinations, featuring cities such as Nice, Cannes, Antibes and Grasse, and numerous alpine ski resorts. Alpes-Maritimes also entirely surrounds Monaco. The department's inhabitants are called Maralpins or Maralpines; it has the same flag and arms as the City of Nice.
context_section_description: The President of the Departmental Council is Charles-Ange Ginésy, who succeeded Éric Ciotti in 2017. Both are members of The Republicans (LR) party. The LR majority in the departmental council is one of the largest majorities in any such institution in France.
caption: Charles-Ange Ginésy has been President of the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council since 2017.
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