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Elections to the Italian Parliament take place every five years [1] [2] or in the event of its early dissolution. Currently, both chambers of the Italian Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic , are elected at the same time by universal and direct suffrage.
National-level elections in Italy are called periodically to form a parliament consisting of two houses: the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) with 400 members; and the Senate of the Republic (Senato della Repubblica) with 200 elected members, plus a few appointed senators for life.
The first modern political party in Italy was the Italian Socialist Party, established in 1892. [1] Until then, the main political groupings of the country, the Historical Right and the Historical Left, were not classifiable as parties, but as simple groups of notables, each with their own electoral fiefdom, that joined together according to their own ideas. [2]
The autonomous region of Aosta Valley in northwestern Italy elects one member to the Chamber of Deputies through a direct first-past-the-post election. Some parties that formed electoral coalitions in Italy might have opted to run against one another, or form different coalitions, in this particular region. [13] [14]
A bloc of conservative parties, led by the far-right Brothers of Italy, looks likely to win a clear majority at the next elections, which might come as early as September, a study of recent ...
Country President Parliament Lower House Upper House Abkhazia 2020: 2022 Afghanistan Autocracy [1] [2] [3] (2016; installed 2021) Appointed [4] Åland Indirectly-elected: 2023 Albania
Drawing a sign on the symbol of a list. In this case, the vote extends to the candidate in the single-member constituency that is supported by that list. Drawing a sign on the name of the candidate of the single-member constituency and another one on the symbol of one list that supports them; the result is the same as that described above.
Slovakia, Italy and the Czech Republic were among five European Union nations casting their votes on the penultimate day of European Union elections, in a race held under the shadow of political ...