Subsection 1: Election and composition.

During the meeting provided for in Article L. 4422-8 and after electing its standing committee, the Assembly of Corsica shall elect from among its members the Executive Council of Corsica and its President, under the same conditions of quorum and majority as those laid down in Article L. 4422-8.

The executive councillors of Corsica and the president of the executive council are elected by list ballot with the submission of complete lists containing as many names as seats to be filled, without adding or deleting names and without changing the order of presentation. On each of the lists, the difference between the number of candidates of each sex may not be greater than one.

If no list receives an absolute majority of the members of the Assembly in the first and second rounds, a third round is held. In the latter case, all the seats are awarded to the list that obtained the most votes. In the event of a tie between the lists that came first, these seats are awarded to the list whose candidates have the highest average age.

The chairman is the candidate at the top of the elected list.

The office of councillor to the Corsican Assembly is incompatible with the office of executive councillor of Corsica.

Any councillor to the Assembly of Corsica elected to the Executive Council of Corsica has a period of seven days from the date on which this election became final to opt between exercising his mandate as councillor to the Assembly of Corsica and his function as Executive Councillor. He shall make his option known in writing to the representative of the State in the territorial collectivity of Corsica, who shall inform the president of the Assembly of Corsica.

Failing to make an option within the allotted time, he or she is deemed to have opted for the office of executive councillor; this situation is recorded by order of the representative of the State in the territorial collectivity of Corsica.

The system of incompatibilities concerning councillors to the Corsican Assembly remains applicable to a councillor to the Corsican Assembly who has opted for the office of executive councillor. He is replaced within the assembly under the conditions laid down in article L. 380 of the electoral code.

When a motion of no confidence is passed under the conditions set out in article L. 4422-31, when the president and the members of the executive council resign collectively, when an executive councillor resigns from his duties individually with the agreement of the president of the executive council, or when the president of the executive council wishes to terminate the duties of one or more executive councillors, the latter resume the exercise of their mandate as councillor to the Assembly of Corsica, in place of the last candidates who became councillors to the Assembly of Corsica on the same lists as them, in accordance with the order of these lists. These are placed at the head of the non-elected candidates on their respective lists. These provisions are applicable to all executive councillors when the seat of president is vacant for any reason whatsoever.