Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Regional Government President: Maurizio Fugatti First Vice President: Arno Kompatscher Vice President: Regional Council President: Autonomous Provinces Trentino, President: Maurizio Fugatti South Tyrol, Governor: Arno Kompatscher Elections (Trentino, South Tyrol) Political parties (Trentino, South Tyrol)
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The Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy takes place in a framework of a parliamentary 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 and Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council. However, since a constitutional reform in 1972, almost all the executive and legislative powers are devolved to the two provinces of which the region is composed: Trentino and the South Tyrol.

The politics of Trentino takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the governor is heads of government, while the politics of South Tyrol retains a parliamentary system, in which the governor is usually the most voted provincial deputy and heads the provincial government.

Executive branch[]

The Regional Government (Giunta Regionale, Landesregierung) is presided by the President of the Region (Presidente della Regione, Landeshauptmann) and is composed by the President and the Ministers (Assessori), who are currently 5, including two Vice Presidents. Since 2001, the Presidents of the two Provinces alternate as President of the Region, with the one who's not in charge serving as First Vice President.

Current composition[]

• President: Ugo Rossi (PATT–Trentino)
• First Vice President: Arno Kompatscher (SVP–South Tyrol)
• Vice President: (PD–South Tyrol)
• Minister: (UAL–Trentino)
• Minister: (SVP–South Tyrol)

List of presidents[]

Presidents of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
President	Party	Term	Legislature
	DC	1948–1953	I Legislature
	DC	1953–1957	II Legislature
	DC	1957–1961	III Legislature
	DC	1961–1965	IV Legislature
	DC	1965–1967	V Legislature
Giorgio Grigolli	DC	1967–1969
Giorgio Grigolli	DC	1969–1973	VI Legislature
Bruno Kessler	DC	1974–1976	VII Legislature
	DC	1976–1977
	DC	1977–1979
	DC	1979–1984	VIII Legislature
	DC	1984–1987	IX Legislature
	DC	1987–1989
	DC	1989–1992	X Legislature
	DC	1992–1994
	PPI	1994–1999	XI Legislature
Margherita Cogo	DS	1999–2002	XII Legislature
	PATT	2002–2004
Luis Durnwalder	SVP	2004–2006	XIII Legislature
Lorenzo Dellai	Civica	2006–2008
Luis Durnwalder	SVP	2008–2011	XIV Legislature
Lorenzo Dellai	UpT	2011–2013
	PD	2013–2014
Ugo Rossi	PATT	2014–2016	XV Legislature
Arno Kompatscher	SVP	2016–2018
Arno Kompatscher	SVP	2018–2021	XVI Legislature
Maurizio Fugatti	LN	since 2021

Provincial executives[]

Trentino[]

This is the list of presidents of Trentino (Italian: Presidente, German: Landeshauptmann) since 1948.

President			Term of office		Party	Administration	Coalition	Legislature
			Duration in years, months and days
1		(1901–1977)	20 December 1948	19 December 1952	DC	Balista I	DC	I (1948)
			4 years			Balista II
2		(1920–2005)	19 December 1952	14 December 1956	DC	Albertini	DC	II (1952)
			3 years, 11 months and 26 days
3		(1902–1970)	14 December 1956	30 December 1960	DC	Rosa	DC	III (1956)
			4 years and 17 days
4		Bruno Kessler (1924–1991)	30 December 1960	13 March 1974	DC	Kessler I	DC	IV (1960)
						Kessler II	DC • PSI	V (1964)
			13 years, 2 months and 14 days			Kessler III	DC	VI (1968)
5		Giorgio Grigolli (1927–2016)	13 March 1974	15 March 1979	DC	Grigolli I	DC • PSDI • PRI	VII (1973)
			5 years and 3 days			Grigolli II	DC
6		(1929–2013)	15 March 1979	30 October 1985	DC	Mengoni I	DC • PRI	VIII (1978)
						Mengoni II	DC • PRI
						Mengoni III	DC • PSDI • PLI
						Mengoni IV	DC • PSDI • PLI
			6 years, 7 months and 16 days			Mengoni V	DC • PRI • PLI	IX (1983)
7		(born 1938)	30 October 1985	16 February 1989	DC	Angeli	DC • PSI • PRI
			3 years, 3 months and 18 days
8		(born 1947)	16 February 1989	4 June 1992	DC	Malossini	DC • PSI	X (1988)
			3 years, 3 months and 20 days
9		(born 1940)	4 June 1992	4 March 1994	DC	Bazzanella	DC • PSI • PSDI
			1 year, 9 months and 1 day
10		(born 1943)	4 March 1994	24 February 1999	PATT	Andreotti	PATT • PRI • PSDI	XI (1993)
			4 years, 11 months and 21 days
11		Lorenzo Dellai (born 1959)	24 February 1999	29 December 2012	DL	Dellai I	The Olive Tree (DL • DS • FdV)	XII (1998)
						Dellai II	The Olive Tree (DL • DS)
					UpT	Dellai III	PD • UpT • PATT
			13 years, 10 months and 6 days
12		(born 1956)	29 December 2012	9 November 2013	PD	Pacher	PD • UpT • PATT
			10 months and 12 days
13		Ugo Rossi (born 1963)	9 November 2013	2 November 2018	PATT	Rossi	PD • UpT • PATT	XV (2013)
			4 years, 11 months and 25 days
14		Maurizio Fugatti (born 1972)	2 November 2018	Incumbent	LN	Fugatti	LN • FI • CT	XVI (2018)
			2 years, 10 months and 10 days

South Tyrol[]

Governors of South Tyrol
Governor		Portrait	Party	Term	Legislature
	Karl Erckert		SVP	1948–1952	I Legislature
				1952–1955	II Legislature
	Alois Pupp		SVP	1955–1956
				1956–1960	III Legislature
	Silvius Magnago		SVP	1960–1964	IV Legislature
				1964–1968	V Legislature
				1968–1973	VI Legislature
				1973–1978	VII Legislature
				1978–1983	VIII Legislature
				1983–1988	IX Legislature
				1988–1989	X Legislature
	Luis Durnwalder		SVP	1989–1993
				1993–1998	XI Legislature
				1998–2003	XII Legislature
				2003–2008	XIII Legislature
				2008–2013	XIV Legislature
				2013–2014	XV Legislature
	Arno Kompatscher		SVP	2014–2018
				2018–present	XVI Legislature

Legislative branch[]

The Regional Council of Trentino-Alto Adige (Consiglio Regionale del Trentino-Alto Adige) is composed of 70 members, 35 from Trentino and 35 from South Tyrol. The regional deputies are elected separately as provincial deputies. In practice the Regional Council is the meeting of the two Provincial Councils.

Local government[]

Municipalities in Trentino[]

Municipality	Inhabitants	Mayor		Party	Election
Trento	117,317		Franco Ianeselli	Democratic Party	2020
Rovereto	39,289			Democratic Party	2020
Pergine Valsugana	21,280			Independent	2020
Arco	17,526			Democratic Party	2020
Riva del Garda	16,926			Lega Nord Trentino	2020

Municipalities in South Tyrol[]

Municipality	Inhabitants	Mayor		Party	Election
Bolzano	106,441		Renzo Caramaschi	Democratic Party	2020
Merano	39,462			Greens	2020
Brixen	21,535			South Tyrolean People's Party	2020
Laives	17,700			Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol	2020
Bruneck	16,109			South Tyrolean People's Party	2020

Political parties and elections[]

The Region has actually two different system of parties: one for each Province. Since the constitutional reform of 2001, regional elections are nothing more than two separate provincial elections and the Region does not provide anymore vote totals region-wide.

Latest provincial elections[]

Trentino[]

2018 Trentino provincial election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Maurizio Fugatti	124,590	46.74	1
						League	69,116	27.09	13
						Civic Trentino	11,777	4.62	2
						Trentino Project	8,248	3.23	1
						Popular Autonomists	7,621	2.99	1
						Forza Italia	7,204	2.82	1
						Act for Trentino	5,458	2.14	1
						UDC–People's Centre	5,306	2.08	–
						Brothers of Italy	3,686	1.44	–
						Fassa Association	2,490	0.98	1
					Total		120,906	47.39	20
	Giorgio Tonini	67,712	25.40	1
						Democratic Party	35,530	13.93	4
						Futura 2018 (incl. FdV)	17,670	6.93	2
						Union for Trentino	10,150	3.98	1
					Total		63,350	24.83	7
	Ugo Rossi	33,121	12.42	1		Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party	32,109	12.59	3
	Filippo Degasperi	18,922	7.10	1		Five Star Movement	18,437	7.23	1
	Antonella Valer	7,099	2.66	–
						Free and Equal	3,560	1.40	–
						Other Trentino on the Left	2,101	0.82	–
					Total		5,661	2.22	–
	Mauro Ottobre	5,237	1.96	–		Dynamic Autonomy	5,117	2.01	–
	Roberto de Laurentis	4,015	1.51	–		Territoriality Responsibility Economics	3,826	1.50	–
	Paolo Primon	2,384	0.89	–		Free People – Freie Völker	2,285	0.90	–
	Ferruccio Chenetti	1,904	0.71	–		Movement Ladin Fassa	1,890	0.74	–
	Filippo Castaldini	1,247	0.47	–		CasaPound Italy	1,215	0.48	–
	Federico Monegaglia	350	0.13	–		Reconquer Italy	341	0.13	–
Total candidates		266,581	100	4	Total parties		255,137	100	31
Source: Autonomous Province of Trento

South Tyrol[]

Parties		Votes	%	Seats	+/−
	South Tyrolean People's Party	119,108	41.9	15	−2
	Team Köllensperger	43,315	15.2	6	+6
	League	31,510	11.1	4	+4
	Greens	19,391	6.8	3	±0
	Die Freiheitlichen	17,620	6.2	2	−4
	South Tyrolean Freedom	16,927	6.0	2	−1
	Democratic Party	10,806	3.8	1	−1
	Five Star Movement	6,670	2.4	1	±0
	Upper Adige in the Heart – Brothers of Italy	4,883	1.7	1	±0
	Citizens' Union	3,664	1.3	0	−1
	We South Tyrol	3,428	1.2	0	±0
	Forza Alto Adige	2,825	1.0	0	±0
	CasaPound Italy	2,451	0.9	0	±0
	United Left	1,753	0.6	0	±0
Total		284,351	100.0	35	±0
Source: Province of Bolzano – Results

Latest general election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol[]

Chamber of Deputies

Coalition		Party		Proportional			First-past-the-post			Total seats
				Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Centre-left coalition		SVP–PATT	134,651	24.2	2	241,534	43.4	2	4
			Democratic Party	81,671	14.7	-			1	1
			More Europe	14,162	2.5	-			-	-
			Popular Civic List (incl. UpT)	7,473	1.3	-			-	-
			Together	3,577	0.6	-			-	-
						2			3	5
	Centre-right coalition		Lega (incl. LNT, LNST)	106,982	19.2	2	163,285	29.3	3	5
			Forza Italia (incl. Fassa)	38,938	7.0	-			-	-
			Brothers of Italy (incl. AAC)	14,660	2.6	-			-	-
			Us with Italy	2,705	0.5	-			-	-
						2			3	5
	Five Star Movement			108,686	19.5	1	108,686	19.5	-	1
	Free and Equal (incl. Greens)			21,805	3.9	-	21,805	3.9	-	-
	Casa Pound Italy			8,060	1.4	-	8,060	1.4	-	-
	Power to the People			5,704	1.0	-	5,704	1.0	-	-
	The People of Family			4,897	0.9	-	4,897	0.9	-	-
	Human Value Party			3,123	0.6	-	3,123	0.6	-	-
Total				557,094	100.0	5	557,094	100.0	6	11

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Senate of the Republic

Coalition		Party		Proportional			First-past-the-post			Total seats
				Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Centre-left coalition		SVP–PATT	128,282	25.1	1	226,766	44.4	2	3
			Democratic Party	75,001	14.7	-			1	1
			More Europe	12,023	2.4	-			-	-
			Popular Civic List (incl. UpT)	7,222	1.4	-			-	-
			Together	4,238	0.8	-			-	-
						1			3	4
	Centre-right coalition		Lega (incl. LNT, LNST)	98,122	19.2	-	151,213	29.6	-	-
			Forza Italia (incl. Fassa)	36,662	7.2	-			2	2
			Brothers of Italy (incl. AAC)	13,612	2.7	-			1	1
			Us with Italy	2,817	0.6	-			-	-
						-			3	3
	Five Star Movement			98,599	19.3	-	98,599	19.3	-	-
	Free and Equal (incl. Greens)			18,666	3.7	-	18,666	3.7	-	-
	Casa Pound Italy			5,953	1.2	-	5,953	1.2	-	-
	Power to the People			5,266	1.0	-	5,266	1.0	-	-
	The People of Family			4,808	0.9	-	4,808	0.9	-	-
Total				511,271	100.0	1	511,271	100.0	6	7

Source: Ministry of the Interior

PR vote in Trentino

Party		Votes	%
	Lega (incl. LNT)	83,510	26.7
	Five Star Movement	74,685	23.8
	Democratic Party	61,013	19.5
	Forza Italia (incl. Fassa)	26,517	8.5
	SVP–PATT	15,612	5.0
	More Europe	10,789	3.4
	Brothers of Italy	10,466	3.3
	Free and Equal	9,334	3.0
	Popular Civic List (incl. UpT)	6,898	2.2
	Power to the People	3,649	1.2
	CasaPound Italy	3,142	1.0
	The People of Family	2,719	0.9
	Together	2,163	0.7
	Us with Italy	1,943	0.6
	Human Value Party	799	0.3
Total		313,239	100.00

Source: Ministry of the Interior

PR vote in South Tyrol

Party		Votes	%
	SVP–PATT	119,039	48.8
	Five Star Movement	34,001	13.9
	Lega (incl. LNST)	23,472	9.6
	Democratic Party	20,658	8.5
	Forza Italia	12,421	5.1
	Free and Equal (incl. Greens)	12,471	5.1
	CasaPound Italy	4,918	2.0
	Brothers of Italy (incl. AAC)	4,194	1.7
	More Europe	3,373	1.4
	Human Value Party	2,324	1.0
	The People of Family	2,178	0.9
	Power to the People	2,055	0.8
	Together	1,414	0.6
	Us with Italy	762	0.3
	Popular Civic List	575	0.2
Total		243,855	100.00

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Sources[]

• Trentino Alto-Adige Region – Elections
• Provincial Council of Trento – Legislatures
• Provincial Council of Bolzano – Legislatures
• Provincial Government of Trento – Elections
• Provincial Government of Bolzano – Elections
• Cattaneo Institute – Archive of Election Data
• Parties and Elections in Europe – Province of Trento
• Parties and Elections in Europe – Province of Bolzano
• Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections
• "Political parties in Alto Adige from 1945 to 2005", an essay by Gunther Pallaver

External links[]

• Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Region
• Constitution of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
• Provincial Government of Trento
• Provincial Council of Trento
• Provincial Government of Bolzano
• Provincial Council of Bolzano