Politics of Lazio

The Politics of Lazio, Italy takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.

Executive

The Regional Government ("Giunta Regionale") is presided by the President of the Region ("Presidente della Regione"), who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers ("Assessori"), who are currently 16, including a Vice President. [ [http://www.regione.lazio.it/Organigramma/giunta.do?type=list Regione Lazio - Composizione della Giunta regionale ] ]

Current composition

List of Presidents

Legislative branch

The Regional Council of Lazio ("Consiglio Regionale del Lazio") is composed of 70 members, of which 55 are elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation, 14 from the so-called "regional list" of the elected President and the last one is for the candidate for President who comes second, who usually becomes the leader of the opposition in the Council. If a coalition wins more than 55% of the vote, only 7 candidates from the "regional list" will be elected and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 62.http://www.consiglio.regione.lombardia.it/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=PRI.1046.1&p_p_id=20&p_p_action=1&p_p_state=exclusive&p_p_col_id=null&p_p_col_pos=2&p_p_col_count=3&_20_struts_action=%2Fdocument_library%2Fget_file&_20_folderId=69&_20_name=l+cost+199_PDF.pdf] [http://elezionistorico.interno.it/listeRegionaliCompleta.php?tp=R&dt=03/04/2005&cta=I&tpEnte=R&tpSeg=R&numEnte=12&sut1=12&sut2=0&sut3=0&descEnte=%20Regione:%20LAZIO&descArea=&codTipoSegLeader=]

The Council is elected for a five-year term, but, if the President suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, under the "simul stabunt vel simul cadent" prevision (introduced in 1999), also the Council will be dissolved and there will be a fresh election.

Current composition

Elections

Last regional election

In the last regional election, which took place on 3-4 April 2005, Piero Marrazzo (Indep. The Olive Tree, The Union) defeated incumbent Francesco Storace (National Alliance, House of Freedoms).

The defeat in Lazio for House of Freedoms was especially important as the centre-right expected to maintain control of the Region. Storace, a leading member in the centre-right, was subsequently granted the status of Minister of Public Health in Berlusconi III Cabinet.

During the electoral campaign, Storace came out with factual evidence that Alessandra Mussolini's Social Alternative had added fake signatures to real ones to reach the minimum number needed to present a list. However, to demonstrate this, he had someone "hack" into the database of the municipality of Rome in order to verify the signatures: he was therefore nicknamed "Storhacker" by Mussolini. It also appeared that someone spied on the centre-left candidate Marrazzo. [ [http://www.repubblica.it/2006/c/sezioni/cronaca/ladrisegr/elenchi/elenchi.html?ref=hpstr2 Repubblica.it » cronaca » Dalle liste della Mussolini a Marrazzo ecco le imprese degli spioni romani ] ] Storace however denied everything.

Other elections

References

External links

* [http://www.regione.lazio.it/ Lazio Region]
* [http://www.consiglio.regione.lazio.it/ Regional Council of Lazio]
* [http://www.regione.lazio.it/organigramma/Statuto_Regione_Lazio.pdf Constitution of Lazio]