Regional Council of Abruzzo

Regional Council of Abruzzo
Regional Council of Abruzzo
12th Legislature
Type
Type	Regional council ; Unicameral
Established	6 July 1970
Leadership
President	Lorenzo Sospiri, FI ; since 12 March 2019
Structure
Seats	31
Political groups	Government (19) FdI (9); FI (4); Lega (2); MP (2); A (1); NM (1); Opposition (12) PD (6); M5S (2); AI (3); AVS (1);
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	Party-list semi-proportional representation with majority bonus ; D'Hondt method
Last election	10 March 2024
Next election	No later than; 11 March 2029
Meeting place
	Palazzo dell'Emiciclo, L'Aquila
Website
	Official website

Last updated November 30, 2025

The Regional Council of Abruzzo (Consiglio Regionale dell'Abruzzo) is the legislative assembly of Abruzzo.

Composition

The Regional Council of Abruzzo was originally composed of 40 regional councillors. The number of regional councillors increased to 43 in the 2000 regional election and, subsequently, to 45 in the 2008 regional election.

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 vel simul cadent clause (introduced in 1999), also the Council will be dissolved and there will be a snap election.^[1]

Following the decree-law n. 138 of 13 August 2011 the number of regional councillors was reduced to 30, with an additional seat reserved for the President of the Region.

Political groups (2024–2029)

The Regional Council of Abruzzo is composed by the following political groups:^[2]

	Seats	Status
Brothers of Italy (FdI)	9 / 31	In government
Democratic Party (PD)	6 / 31	In opposition
Forza Italia (FI)	4 / 31	In government
Lega	2 / 31	In government
Five Star Movement (M5S)	2 / 31	In opposition
Marsilio for President (MP)	2 / 31	In government
Abruzzo Together (AI)	3 / 31	In opposition
Greens and Left Alliance (AVS)	1 / 31	In opposition
Action (A)^[a]	1 / 31	External support
Us Moderates (NM)	1 / 31	External support

↑ Elected within the Centre-left coalition then switched to support the Centre-right government.

By coalition:

Party		Seats	Status
	Centre-right coalition	18 / 31	Government
	Centre-left coalition	13 / 31	Opposition

Historical composition

Election	DC	PCI	PSI	PLI	PRI	PSDI	MSI	Others	Total
Election
7 June 1970	20	10	3	1	1	2	2	1	40
15 June 1975	18	13	4	0	1	2	2	0	40
8 June 1980	20	12	4	0	1	1	2	0	40
12 May 1985	19	11	5	1	1	1	2	0	40
6 May 1990	20	8	6	1	1	1	1	2	40

Election	Majority	Opposition	President of the Region
23 April 1995	Centre-left (The Olive Tree) 25 / 40	Centre-right (Pole for Freedoms) 15 / 40	Antonio Falconio (1995–2000)
16 April 2000	Centre-right (House of Freedoms) 26 / 43	Centre-left (The Olive Tree) 17 / 43	Giovanni Pace (2000–2005)
3 April 2005	Centre-left (The Union) 27 / 40	Centre-right (House of Freedoms) 13 / 40	Ottaviano Del Turco (2005–2008)
14 December 2008 ( snap election )	Centre-right 27 / 45	Centre-left 16 / 45 UDC 2 / 45	Giovanni Chiodi (2008–2014)
25 May 2014	Centre-left 18 / 31	Centre-right 7 / 31 M5S 6 / 31	Luciano D'Alfonso (2014–2018)
10 February 2019 ( snap election )	Centre-right 18 / 31	M5S 7 / 31 Centre-left 6 / 31	Marco Marsilio (since 2019)
10 March 2024	Centre-right 18 / 31	Centre-left 13 / 31	Marco Marsilio (since 2019)

Presidents

This is a list of the Presidents of the Regional Council (Italian: Presidenti del Consiglio regionale):

	Period		Regional Legislature
Giuseppe De Cecco (DC)	6 July 1970	18 July 1970	I (1970)
Emilio Mattucci (DC)	18 July 1970	4 July 1975	I (1970)
Emilio Mattucci (DC)	4 July 1975	9 October 1975	II (1975)
Marcello Russo (PSI)	9 October 1975	1 March 1977
Arnaldo Di Giovanni (PCI)	1 March 1977	6 April 1979
Giuseppe Bolino (DC)	6 April 1979	7 July 1980
Giuseppe Bolino (DC)	7 July 1980	16 December 1980	III (1980)
Egidio Marinaro (PSI)	16 December 1980	11 June 1985	III (1980)
Gaetano Novello (DC)	11 June 1985	15 November 1988	IV (1985)
Nino Pace (PSI)	15 November 1988	5 July 1989
Paolo Pizzola (PSI)	5 July 1989	4 June 1990
Rocco Salini (DC)	4 June 1990	31 July 1990	V (1990)
Vincenzo Del Colle (DC)	31 July 1990	24 October 1992
Mario Pennetta (DC)	24 October 1992	23 November 1993
Giuliano Giuliani (PDS)	23 November 1993	29 May 1995
Gianni Melilla (PDS)	29 May 1995	2 May 1997	VI (1995)
Umberto Aimola (PDS)	2 May 1997	22 May 2000	VI (1995)
Giuseppe Tagliente (FI)	22 May 2000	16 May 2005	VII (2000)
Marino Roselli (PD)	16 May 2005	27 January 2009	VIII (2005)
Nazario Pagano (PdL)	27 January 2009	30 June 2014	IX (2008)
Giuseppe Di Pangrazio (PD)	30 June 2014	12 March 2019	X (2014)
Lorenzo Sospiri (FI)	12 March 2019	26 March 2024	XI (2019)
Lorenzo Sospiri (FI)	26 March 2024	Incumbent	XII (2024)

References

↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2013-02-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Gruppi consiliari | Consiglio regionale dell'Abruzzo". www.consiglio.regione.abruzzo.it (in Italian). Retrieved 4 July 2019.

External links

Regional Council of Abruzzo Archived 2010-11-17 at the Wayback Machine

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[3] Elected within the Centre-left coalition then switched to support the Centre-right government.

[autogenerated1-1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2013-02-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Gruppi consiliari | Consiglio regionale dell'Abruzzo". www.consiglio.regione.abruzzo.it (in Italian). Retrieved 4 July 2019.

[1]

[2]

[a]