Politics of Abruzzo

The Politics of Abruzzo, 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 branch[]

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 8, including a Vice President (Vicepresidente) and an undersecretary (Sottosegretario).^[1]

List of presidents[]

Legislative branch[]

The Regional Council of Abruzzo (Consiglio Regionale dell'Abruzzo) is composed of 40 members. 32 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 8 councillors (elected in bloc) come from a "regional list", including the President-elect. One seat is reserved for the candidate who comes second. If a coalition wins more than 50% of the total seats in the council with PR, only 4 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 36. If the winning coalition receives less than 40% of votes, special seats are added to the council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.^[2]

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, simul cadent clause introduced in 1999 (literally they will stand together or they will fall together), also the council is dissolved and a snap election is called.^[3]

Local government[]

Provinces[]

Province	Inhabitants^[4]	Party	Election
Chieti	385,917	Democratic Party	2014
L'Aquila	299,135	Independent (centre-right)	2017
Pescara	319,085	Independent (centre-right)	2018
Teramo	308,219	Independent (centre-right)	2018

Municipalities[]

Provincial capitals[]

Municipality	Inhabitants^[4]		Party	Election
Chieti	50,694	Diego Ferrara	Democratic Party	2020
L'Aquila	69,327	Pierluigi Biondi	Brothers of Italy	2017
Pescara	119,365	Carlo Masci	Forza Italia	2019
Teramo	54,361	Gianguido D'Alberto	Independent (centre-left)	2018

Parties and elections[]

Latest regional election[]

In the latest regional election, which took place on 10 February 2019, Marco Marsilio of Brothers of Italy was elected President of Abruzzo. The League, which fielded candidates for the first time in the region, was the largest party.

10 February 2019 Abruzzo regional election results
Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats

	Marco Marsilio	299,949	48.03	1		League	165,008	27.53	10
						Forza Italia	54,223	9.04	3
						Brothers of Italy	38,894	6.48	2
						Political Action	19,446	3.24	1
						Union of the Centre – Christian Democracy – IdeA	17,308	2.88	1
					Total		294,879	49.19	17
	Giovanni Legnini	195,394	31.28	1		Democratic Party	66,796	11.14	3
						Legnini for President	33,277	5.55	1
						Abruzzo in Common – Easy Region	23,168	3.86	1
						Progressives – Free and Equal	16,614	2.77	–
						Abruzzo Together – Future Abruzzo	16,055	2.67	–
						More Abruzzo – Democratic Centre	14,198	2.36	–
						Centrists for Europe	7,938	1.32	–
						Forward Abruzzo – Italy of Values	5,611	0.93	–
					Total		183,630	30.63	5
	Sara Marcozzi	126,125	20.20	–		Five Star Movement	118,273	19.73	7
	Stefano Flajani	2,974	0.47	–		CasaPound	2,560	0.42	–

Invalid votes		18,808	–
Total candidates		624,482	100.00	2	Total parties		599,356	100.00	29
Registered voters		1,211,204	53.11
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results

References[]

^ Regione Abruzzo - Giunta Regionale
^ La Repubblica – Regional electoral law
^ "Regional Council of Lombardy – 1999 Constitutional law" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Bilancio demografico anno 2018 (October 2018)". Istat. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

External links[]

[1] Regione Abruzzo - Giunta Regionale

[2] La Repubblica – Regional electoral law

[3] "Regional Council of Lombardy – 1999 Constitutional law" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2009.

[istat-4] "Bilancio demografico anno 2018 (October 2018)". Istat. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

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