Harghita County Council is the main local public administration of Harghita County with one President – elected directly by the citizens for a mandate of 4 years – and 30 County Councillors, including the two Vice-Presidents of the county council.

The County Council is responsible for the public administration activity on the county’s territory based on the principles of local autonomy, decentralization of public sphere deputy’s, legality and citizen’s consultation regarding local problems of main interest and contributes to the local growth by means of development programs.

In brief the following activities and responsibilities belong to the action sphere of the county council and of its subordinated institutions:

• Responsibilities related to the county level infrastructure and public acquisitions, preservation of cultural patrimony and historical monuments, assistance, urbanism and construction certification;
• Investments and economic development, international, EU funded and structural projects’ management;
• Development and implementation of county level programmes on several fields of interest: culture, youth, religion, schools, civil society, social assistance, health, agriculture, rural development, tourism, renewable energy, mountain rescue and mountain area development, library, arts and registrar;
• County level events organization and protocol, relation with mass-media, human resources, international relations and c oordination of the local public authorities of the county.

Council Members