Deputy Prime Minister of Italy

Vice-President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic
Vicepresidente del Consiglio dei Ministri della Repubblica Italiana
Incumbent Vacant since 5 September 2019
Council of Ministers
Appointer	President of the Republic
Inaugural holder	Luigi Einaudi, Randolfo Pacciardi, Giuseppe Saragat

The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, officially Vice-President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic (Italian: Vicepresidente del Consiglio dei ministri della Repubblica Italiana), is a senior member of the Italian Cabinet. Moreover, it is often colloquially known as Vicepremier.^[1][2] The office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not a permanent position, existing only at the discretion of the Prime Minister, who may appoint to other offices to give seniority to a particular Cabinet minister. The office is currently vacant under Mario Draghi's premiership.

Unlike analogous offices in some other nations, such as a vice-presidency, the Italian deputy prime minister possesses no special constitutional powers as such, though they will always have particular responsibilities in government. They do not assume the duties and powers of the Prime Minister in the latter's absence, illness, or death, such as the powers to seek a dissolution of parliament, appoint peers or brief the President of the Republic.

They do not automatically succeed the Prime Minister, should the latter be incapacitated or resign from the leadership of his or her political party. In practice, however, the designation of someone to the role of Deputy Prime Minister may provide additional practical status within cabinet, enabling the exercise of de facto, if not de jure, power.

In a coalition government, as Enrico Letta Grand coalition government between the Democrats and The People of Freedom, the appointment of the secretary of the smaller party (in the 2014 case, Angelino Alfano, secretary of the PdL) as Deputy Prime Minister is done to give that person more authority within the cabinet to enforce the coalition's agreed-upon agenda.^[3]

List of deputy prime ministers[]

Parties

• 1946–1994:
  •   Italian Liberal Party
  •   Italian Republican Party
  •   Italian Democratic Socialist Party
  •   Christian Democracy
  •   Italian Socialist Party
• 1994–present:
  •   Lega Nord
  •   National Alliance
  •   Democratic Party of the Left
  •   Italian People's Party
  •   Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
  •   Forza Italia / The People of Freedom
  •   Democratic Party
  •   New Centre-Right
  •   Five Star Movement

Coalitions

• 1946–1994:
  •   Centrist coalition
  •   Organic Centre-left
  •   Pentapartito / Quadripartito
  •   Mixed coalition
• 1994–present:
  •   Centre-right coalition
  •   Centre-left coalition
  •   Mixed coalition

N.	Portrait	Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Party		Government	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Luigi Einaudi (1874–1961)	31 May 1947	23 May 1948	358 days		Italian Liberal Party	De Gasperi IV
		Randolfo Pacciardi (1899–1991)					Italian Republican Party
		Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988)					Italian Democratic Socialist Party
2		Attilio Piccioni (1892–1976)	23 May 1948	27 January 1950	1 year, 249 days		Christian Democracy	De Gasperi V
		Giovanni Porzio (1873–1962)					Italian Liberal Party
		Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988)					Italian Democratic Socialist Party
Office not in use			1950–1951					De Gasperi VI
(2)		Attilio Piccioni (1892–1976)	26 July 1951	17 August 1953	2 years, 22 days		Christian Democracy	De Gasperi VII·VIII
Office not in use			1953–1954					Pella Fanfani I
(1)		Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988)	10 February 1954	19 May 1957	3 years, 98 days		Italian Democratic Socialist Party	Scelba Segni I
3		Giuseppe Pella (1902–1981)	19 May 1957	1 July 1958	1 year, 43 days		Christian Democracy	Zoli
4		Antonio Segni (1891–1972)	1 July 1958	16 February 1959	229 days		Christian Democracy	Fanfani II
Office not in use			1959–1960					Segni II Tambroni
(3)		Attilio Piccioni (1892–1976)	26 July 1960	4 December 1963	3 years, 131 days		Christian Democracy	Fanfani III·IV Leone I
5		Pietro Nenni (1891–1980)	4 December 1963	24 June 1968	4 years, 203 days		Italian Socialist Party	Moro I·II·III
Office not in use			June–December 1968					Leone I
6		Francesco De Martino (1907–2002)	12 December 1968	5 August 1969	236 days		Italian Socialist Party	Rumor I
7		Paolo Emilio Taviani (1912–2001)	5 August 1969	27 March 1970	234 days		Christian Democracy	Rumor II
(6)		Francesco De Martino (1907–2002)	27 March 1970	17 February 1972	1 year, 327 days		Italian Socialist Party	Rumor II Colombo
Office not in use			February–June 1972					Andreotti I
8		Mario Tanassi (1916–2007)	26 June 1972	7 July 1973	1 year, 11 days		Italian Democratic Socialist Party	Andreotti II
Office not in use			1973–1974					Rumor IV·V
9		Ugo La Malfa (1903–1979)	23 November 1974	12 February 1976	1 year, 81 days		Italian Republican Party	Moro IV
Office not in use			1976–1979					Moro V Andreotti III·IV
(9)		Ugo La Malfa (1903–1979)	20 March 1979	26 March 1979[4]	6 days		Italian Republican Party	Andreotti V
Office not in use			1979–1983					Cossiga I
								Cossiga II Forlani
								Spadolini I·II
								Fanfani V
10		Arnaldo Forlani (1925–)	4 August 1983	18 April 1987	3 years, 257 days		Christian Democracy	Craxi I·II
Office not in use			April–July 1987					Fanfani VI
11		Giuliano Amato (1938–)	29 July 1987	13 April 1988	259 days		Italian Socialist Party	Goria
12		Gianni De Michelis (1940–2019)	13 April 1988	22 July 1989	1 year, 100 days		Italian Socialist Party	De Mita
13		Claudio Martelli (1943–)	22 July 1989	28 June 1992	2 years, 342 days		Italian Socialist Party	Andreotti VI·VII
Office not in use			1992–1994					Amato I
								Ciampi
14		Roberto Maroni (1955–)	10 May 1994	17 January 1995	252 days		Lega Nord	Berlusconi I
		Giuseppe Tatarella (1935–1999)					National Alliance
Office not in use			1995–1996					Dini
15		Walter Veltroni (1955–)	17 May 1996	21 October 1998	2 years, 157 days		Democratic Party of the Left	Prodi I
16		Sergio Mattarella (1941–)	21 October 1998	22 December 1999	1 year, 62 days		Italian People's Party	D'Alema I
Office not in use			1999–2001					D'Alema II Amato II
17		Gianfranco Fini (1952–)	11 June 2001	23 April 2005	3 years, 316 days		National Alliance	Berlusconi II
		Marco Follini (1954–)					Union of Christians and Centre Democrats
18		Gianfranco Fini (1952–)	23 April 2005	17 May 2006	1 year, 24 days		National Alliance	Berlusconi III
		Giulio Tremonti (1947–)					Forza Italia
19		Massimo D'Alema (1949–)	17 May 2006	8 May 2008	1 year, 357 days		Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party	Prodi II
		Francesco Rutelli (1954–)					The Daisy / Democratic Party
Office not in use			2008–2013					Berlusconi IV
								Monti
20		Angelino Alfano (1970–)	28 April 2013	22 February 2014	300 days		The People of Freedom / New Centre-Right	Letta
Office not in use			2014–2018					Renzi Gentiloni
21		Matteo Salvini (1973–)	1 June 2018	5 September 2019	1 year, 96 days		Lega Nord	Conte I
		Luigi Di Maio (1986–)					Five Star Movement
Office not in use			2019–present					Conte II Draghi

Timeline[]

See also[]

• Prime Minister of Italy
• List of prime ministers of Italy
• Politics of Italy
• Lists of incumbents

References[]