The Government of Italy is in the form of a democratic republic, and was established by a constitution in 1948. It consists of legislative, executive, and judicial subdivisions, as well as a Head of State, or President.
The Senate of the Republic or Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Italian Parliament. The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical functions, but do so separately. The Senate currently has 315 seats. Pursuant to the amended Articles 57, 58, and 59 of the Italian Constitution, the Senate has a variable number of members, of which 196 will be elected from Italian constituencies in the next election, 4 from Italian citizens living abroad, and a small number are senators for life, either appointed or ex officio. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as Senato del Regno, itself a continuation of the Senato Subalpino of Sardinia established on 8 May 1848. Members of the Senate are styled Senator or The Honourable Senator and they meet at Palazzo Madama, Rome.
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, commonly known simply as The Daisy, was a centrist political party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties within the centre-left coalition: the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal. The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition, within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote.
Emilio Colombo was an Italian politician, member of the Christian Democracy, who served as Prime Minister of Italy from August 1970 to February 1972.
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Italy. The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical functions, but do so separately. The Chamber of Deputies has 630 members. Pursuant to the amended article 56 of the Italian Constitution, the Chamber of Deputies will have 400 seats following the next election, of which 392 will be elected from Italian constituencies, and 8 from Italian citizens living abroad. Deputies are styled The Honourable and meet at Palazzo Montecitorio.
The Valdostan Union, also Valdostian Union or Valdotanian Union is a regionalist and centrist political party in Aosta Valley, Italy. It represents mainly the Arpitan-speaking minority in the region. Former leader Erik Lavévaz has been the President of Aosta Valley since October 2020.
The Democratic Alliance was a social-liberal political party in Italy.
The 1948 Italian general election was held in Italy on 18 April 1948 to elect the first Parliament of the Italian Republic. The elections were characterised by campaign financing and propaganda efforts conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom on behalf of the coalition led by the centrist party Christian Democracy. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) claims that the Soviet Union responded by heavily funding the leftist Popular Democratic Front, which consisted of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party. However, the PCI refuted this claim and, in contrast, expressed its discontent with what it perceived as a lack of support from the Soviets.
The People's Assembly is Syria's legislative authority. It has 250 members elected for a four-year term in 15 multi-seat constituencies. There are two main political fronts; the National Progressive Front and Popular Front for Change and Liberation. The 2012 elections, held on 7 May, resulted in a new parliament that, for the first time in four decades, is based on a multi-party system. In 1938, Fares Al-Khoury became the first Christian to be elected Speaker. In 2016 Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, Ph.D., representing Deir Ezzor since 2003, became the first woman elected to be the Speaker. In 2017, Hammouda Sabbagh became the first Orthodox Christian to have held the post.
The Italian Constituent Assembly was a parliamentary chamber which existed in Italy from 25 June 1946 until 31 January 1948. It was tasked with writing a constitution for the Italian Republic, which had replaced the Kingdom of Italy after the Italian civil war.
The 1946 Italian general election was held in Italy on Sunday, 2 June 1946. They were the first after World War II and elected 556 deputies to the Constituent Assembly. Theoretically, a total of 573 deputies were to be elected, but the election did not take place in the Julian March and in South Tyrol, which were under military occupation by the United Nations.
The Politics of Aosta Valley, Italy since 1946 has taken place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, whereby the president of Aosta Valley has been the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. The regional government has exercised legislative power, vested in both the government and the Regional Council of Aosta Valley.
The Garibaldian Antifascist Partisan Movement of Italy was a political party in Italy. GAPI was founded by Sante Garibaldi at a congress in Rome August 8–14, 1945. GAPI supported a democratic, republican and federalist constitution of Italy. The party published the weekly La Pattuglia.
The Sicilian Independent Labour Party was a political party in Sicily, Italy. The party was led by Ettore Lombardo Pellegrino. The party contested the Catania–Messina–Siracusa–Ragusa–Enna constituency in the 1946 Constituent Assembly election. It obtained 10,246 votes. Around half of the votes, 4,426, came from the Messina province, where the party obtained 1.50% of the votes.
For the Autonomies is a heterogeneous centre-left and originally regionalist parliamentary group, which has been active, with slightly different names and different composition, in the Italian Senate since 2001.
The 1962 Italian presidential election was held in Italy on 2–6 May 1962.
Mouv' is a progressive political party active in Aosta Valley, Italy.
The 2020 Valdostan regional election took place on 20 and 21 September 2020 in Aosta Valley, Italy. The election was originally scheduled to take place on 19 April 2020, but was then postponed first to 10 May and then delayed for a second time due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.
Aosta Valley is one of the 29 constituencies represented in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian parliament. The constituency currently elects only one deputy, less than any other in the parliament. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Italian region of Aosta Valley. The electoral system in Aosta Valley uses a first-past-the-post election, with one round of voting.
