Members of the Regional Council of Veneto, 2005–2010

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The VIII Legislature of the Regional Council of Veneto, the legislative assembly of Veneto, was inaugurated in April 2005, following the 2005 regional election, and ended in April 2010. Of the 60 members, 47 were elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation with a further 12 returned from the so-called "regional list" of the elected President of Veneto, including the President himself, and the candidate for president who came second. [1]

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Marino Finozzi (Liga Veneta) was President of the Council for the entire term, while Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, later The People of Freedom) served as President of Veneto at the head of his third government.

Composition

Thirteen parties were represented in the Council at the beginning of the term. They became fourteen when Massimo Carraro, the defeated candidate for President of the centre-left, resigned and was replaced by a regional deputy elected from the list of Italy of Values, thanks to an obscure clause of the electoral law.

The single largest party in the Council was Forza Italia, followed by Liga Veneta until February 2007, when the members of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (7 regional deputies) and the Democrats of the Left (5 regional deputies) formed a joint-group, the "Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party", named after the future Italian Democratic Party, which was founded later in October. It was the first time in Italy that the name of the future party was used in an institutional contest.

Strength of political groups

Distribution of Seats in the Regional Council
Political GroupLeader20052010
Forza Italia Remo Sernagiotto 1616
The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party Giovanni Gallo -12
Liga VenetaLega Nord Franco Manzato / Roberto Ciambetti 1110
National Alliance Piergiorgio Cortelazzo 66
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats Onorio De Boni 54
Italy of Values Damiano Rossato -2
North-East Project Mariangelo Foggiato 21
For Veneto with Carraro Marco Zabotti 21
Communist Refoundation Party Pietrangelo Pettenò 11
Federation of the Greens Gianfranco Bettin 11
New Italian Socialist Party Nereo Laroni 11
Party of Italian Communists Nicola Atalmi 11
Veneto for the European People's Party Raffaele Grazia -1
Venetian Agreement Carlo Covi -1
Venetian People's Movement Francesco Piccolo -1
Forum of Venetians Diego Cancian -1
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Achille Variati 7-
Democrats of the Left Giovanni Gallo 5-
Italian Democratic Socialists Carlo Covi 1-
United for Carraro Massimo Carraro 1-

Sources: Regional Council of Veneto – Groups and Regional Council of Veneto – Members

Members by party of election

Forza Italia

Liga Veneta–Lega Nord

Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy

(The group was merged into "The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party")

National Alliance

Union of Christian and Centre Democrats

Democrats of the Left

(The group was merged into "The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party")

North-East Project

For Veneto with Carraro

United for Carraro

Communist Refoundation Party

Federation of the Greens

New Italian Socialist Party

Italian Democratic Socialists

Party of Italian Communists

Italy of Values

Election

The regional election that produced the VIII Legislature took place on 3–4 April 2005. Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time president of the region, but the support for him was diminished by the presence of a third candidate, Giorgio Panto, who picked votes both from the centre-right camp and from the Ventist one, and of a fourth candidate of the far-right.

Forza Italia suffered a decline in term of votes and regional deputies, although remaining the largest party in the council and also in the region as a whole (the Olive Tree was only an electoral alliance at the time and the three parties which were part of it formed separate groups in the council), while Venetist parties had a very good result: the combined score of Liga Veneta (14.7%), North-East Project (5.4%) and Liga Fronte Veneto (1.2%) was 21.3%, up from the 15.6% of 2000 (Liga Veneta 12.0%, Veneti d'Europa 2.4% and Fronte Marco Polo 1.2%.

3–4 April 2005 Venetian regional election results
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CandidatesVotes %SeatsPartiesVotes %Seat
Giancarlo Galan 1,359,87950.5812
Forza Italia 523,89622.7112
Northern LeagueVenetian League 337,89614.657
National Alliance 186,3968.084
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 147,9536.413
New Italian Socialist Party – Others32,8511.421
Total1,228,99253.2827
Massimo Carraro 1,138,63142.351
The Olive Tree 560,62924.3013
For Veneto with Carraro107,3334.652
Communist Refoundation Party 80,4243.491
Federation of the Greens 69,1913.001
Party of Italian Communists 35,0671.521
Italy of Values 29,6071.28
Liga Fronte Veneto 27,5241.19
Consumers' List 15,6580.68
Union of Democrats for Europe 6,2650.27
Total931,69840.3918
Giorgio Panto 161,6426.01 North-East Project 125,6905.452
Roberto Bussinello28,5651.06 Social Alternative 20,4340.89
Total candidates2,688,717100.0013Total parties2,306,814100.0047
Source: Ministry of the Interior

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