1993 Rome municipal election

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1993 Rome municipal election
Flag of Rome.svg
  1989 21 November 1993 (first round)
5 December 1993 (second round)
1997  
Turnout78.7% Decrease2.svg 1.6 pp (first round)
79.9% Increase2.svg 1.2 pp (second round)
Mayoral election
  Francesco Rutelli 1992.jpg Gianfranco Fini 1992.jpg
Candidate Francesco Rutelli Gianfranco Fini
Party FdV MSI
Alliance Progressives
1st Round vote684,529619,309
Percentage39.6%35.8%
2nd Round vote955,859844,030
Percentage53.1%46.9%

Mayor before election

Aldo Camporota
(Special commissioner)

Elected Mayor

Francesco Rutelli
FdV

City Council election

All 60 seats in City Council
31 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
Progressives Francesco Rutelli37.2136
Social Movement Gianfranco Fini33.4214
Centrist coalition Carmelo Caruso14.256
Communist Refoundation Renato Nicolini8.023
Others1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Municipal elections were held in Rome on 21 November and 5 December 1993 to elect the Mayor of Rome and 60 members of the City Council.

Contents

For the first time under a new local electoral law, enacted on 25 March 1993, citizens could vote to directly elect the Mayor. [1]

As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates – Francesco Rutelli, a former radical deputy at that time one of the most prominent figure of the environmentalist Federation of the Greens (FdV) and Gianfranco Fini, Giorgio Almirante's pupil and national leader of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) – which Rutelli finally won. [2]

Background

With the Law of 25 March 1993, n. 81 was introduced the direct election of Mayor. In this way the form of government of the city, previously attributed to a parliamentary model, was neared at semi-presidential system. The same law fixed four years term of office for Mayor, later extended to five years.

The first direct-election of the Mayor of Rome took place in a period of changes for the Italian politics: the scandal called Tangentopoli, which highlighted pervasive corruption in the Italian political system, exposed in the 1992 Mani Pulite investigations, led to the collapse of the dominant Christian Democracy party and of its allies in the municipal politics.

Mayoral election

For the first time a leftist coalition, composed by the former-communist Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and some other progressives party, took part in the election, presenting Francesco Rutelli as its mayoral candidate. Rutelli was a young politician who had been a member of the Italian Radicals then a member of the newborn Federation of the Greens.

The main opposition to Rutelli's coalition was represented by the neo-fascist candidate Gianfranco Fini. Fini was a young politician considered the inheritor of Giorgio Almirante's political knowledge in the Italian Social Movement (MSI). Fini and his party were quite popular in Rome: their popularity, originated from the Fascist regime, was increased by the political scandal which had invested the historical Christian Democracy (DC) and Italian Socialist Party (PSI). However Fini's popularity continued after the 1993 election, since all the candidates supported by the center-right coalition in the future elections would have been members of neo-fascist party National Alliance (AN).

Although the political crisis, Christian Democracy (DC) presented its candidate, Carmelo Caruso, who was supported also by the weak Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI).

Many other candidates took part in the election, all of them from very small parties, civic lists or associations. The most famous of this small party was the so-called Love Party, which was in favor of sexuality in a libertarian sense and for this reason decided to present as candidate for Mayor the famous pornstars Moana Pozzi.

The election was distinguished by the active involvement of an unprecedented numbers of Italian nobles as either candidates or supporters, including members of the Barberini, Orsini, Chigi, and Borghese families.

Voting System

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Parties and candidates

This is a list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.

Political party or allianceConstituent listsCandidate
Italian Social Movement Gianfranco Fini
Progressives Democratic Party of the Left Francesco Rutelli
Federation of the Greens
Democratic Alliance
Pannella List
Centrist coalition Christian Democracy Carmelo Caruso
Union of the Centre
Italian Democratic Socialist Party
Communist Refoundation Party Renato Nicolini
Lay and Reformist AllianceVittorio Ripa di Meana

Results

Summary of the 1993 Rome City Council and Mayoral election results
Rome City Council 1993.svg
Candidates1st round2nd roundLeader's
seat
PartiesVotes %Seats
Votes %Votes %
Francesco Rutelli 684,52939.55955,85953.11 Democratic Party of the Left 233,92418.1718
Federation of the Greens 136,75310.6210
Alliance for Rome 63,2714.915
Pannella List 45,0823.503
Total479,03037.2136
Gianfranco Fini 619,30935.78844,03046.89Yes check.svg Italian Social Movement 399,59431.0413
Together for Rome30,6842.38
Total430,27833.4213
Carmelo Caruso197,80111.43Yes check.svg Christian Democracy 154,55212.005
Union of the Centre 14,3921.12
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 11,3330.88
Civilization and Progress3,1600.25
Total183,43714.255
Renato Nicolini143,3648.28Yes check.svg Communist Refoundation Party 90,4617.032
Freeing Rome12,7980.99
Total103,2598.022
Vittorio Ripa di Meana26,0641.51Yes check.svgReformist Lay Alliance (PSIPRI)30,8182.39
Maria Ida Germontani11,7700.68 Federal Italy League 13,7261.07
Antonio Pappalardo9,5270.55Solidarity and Democracy9,5570.74
Laura Scalabrini9,1640.53 Federalist Greens 10,5310.82
Moana Pozzi 8,9770.52 Love Party 7,2280.56
Giulio Savelli4,1980.24Independent Movement for Rome3,3730.26
Federica Rossi Gasparrini4,0750.24New Italy4,6850.36
Gabriella Carlizzi3,9980.23Christian Party of Democracy3,4090.26
Mirella Cece2,0020.12European Liberal Christian Movement2,0960.16
Rosario Caccamo1,9480.11People's Movement for Man
and the Environment
1,8610.14
Carlo Olivieri1,5900.09 Humanist Alliance 1,4850.12
Pier Vittorio Fiorelli1,5190.09Rights and Duties1,8590.14
Rosanna Bartolomei8820.05Corporatist Democracy8960.07
Total1,730,717100.001,799,889100.0041,287,528100.0056
Eligible voters2,317,077100.002,317,077100.00
Did not vote492,53621.26466,78720.15
Voted1,824,54178.741,850,29079.85
Blank or invalid ballots93,8245.1450,4012.72
Total valid votes1,730,71794.861,799,88997.28
Source: Ministry of the Interior

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References

  1. "Elezioni, è la prova generale" (in Italian). La Stampa. 21 November 1993. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. "Ha vinto la sinistra, sconfitti MSI e Lega" (in Italian). La Stampa. 6 December 1993. Retrieved 11 April 2021.