 Of the fifty-two departmental councilors, forty-two are right and ten are left.Alpes-Maritimes has experienced problems of corruption in its politicians in the 1980s and 1990s which led to criminal convictions including the Mayors of Nice (Jacques Médecin), Cannes (Michel Mouillot) and Antibes (Pierre Merli, criminally indicted in 1995 for real estate scam and convicted in 1999).The President of the Departmental Council is Charles-Ange Ginésy, who succeeded Éric Ciotti in 2017.