Politics of Abruzzo
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The Politics of Abruzzo (Abruzzo, Italy) takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.

Executive branch

The Regional Government (Giunta Regionale) is presided by the President of the Region (Presidente della Regione), who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers (Assessori), who are currently 8, including a Vice President (Vicepresidente) and an undersecretary (Sottosegretario).^[1]

List of presidents

Elected by the Regional Council (1970–1995)

Directly-elected presidents (since 1995)

N.	Portrait	President	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Party		Composition	Legislature
9		Antonio Falconio (1938–2021)	29 May 1995	18 May 2000	4 years, 355 days		Italian People's Party	PDS–PRC–PPI–PdD–FdV	VI (1995)
10		Giovanni Pace (1933–2018)	18 May 2000	22 April 2005	4 years, 339 days		National Alliance	FI–AN–CDC–CDU	VII (2000)
11		Ottaviano Del Turco (1944– )	22 April 2005	13 July 2008[a]	3 years, 82 days		Italian Democratic Socialists/ Democratic Party	DS–DL–SDI–PRC–UDEUR–PdCI–FdV	VIII (2005)
12		Giovanni Chiodi (1961– )	3 January 2009	10 June 2014	5 years, 158 days		The People of Freedom	PdL–MpA	IX (2008)
13		Luciano D'Alfonso (1965– )	10 June 2014	10 August 2018[b]	4 years, 61 days		Democratic Party	PD–CD–SEL–IdV	X (2014)
12		Marco Marsilio (1968– )	23 February 2019	Incumbent	4 years, 162 days		Brothers of Italy	Lega–FI–FdI–AP–UDC	XI (2019)

Legislative branch

The Regional Council of Abruzzo (Consiglio Regionale dell'Abruzzo) is composed of 40 members. 32 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 8 councillors (elected in bloc) come from a "regional list", including the President-elect. One seat is reserved for the candidate who comes second. If a coalition wins more than 50% of the total seats in the council with PR, only 4 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 36. If the winning coalition receives less than 40% of votes, special seats are added to the council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.^[2]

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, simul cadent clause introduced in 1999 (literally they will stand together or they will fall together), also the council is dissolved and a snap election is called.^[3]

Local government

Provinces

Municipalities

Provincial capitals

Parties and elections

Latest regional election

In the latest regional election, which took place on 10 February 2019, Marco Marsilio of Brothers of Italy was elected President of Abruzzo. The League, which fielded candidates for the first time in the region, was the largest party.

10 February 2019 Abruzzo regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Marco Marsilio	299,949	48.03	1		League	165,008	27.53	10
						Forza Italia	54,223	9.04	3
						Brothers of Italy	38,894	6.48	2
						Political Action	19,446	3.24	1
						Union of the Centre – Christian Democracy – IdeA	17,308	2.88	1
					Total		294,879	49.19	17
	Giovanni Legnini	195,394	31.28	1		Democratic Party	66,796	11.14	3
						Legnini for President	33,277	5.55	1
						Abruzzo in Common – Easy Region	23,168	3.86	1
						Progressives – Free and Equal	16,614	2.77	–
						Abruzzo Together – Future Abruzzo	16,055	2.67	–
						More Abruzzo – Democratic Centre	14,198	2.36	–
						Centrists for Europe	7,938	1.32	–
						Forward Abruzzo – Italy of Values	5,611	0.93	–
					Total		183,630	30.63	5
	Sara Marcozzi	126,125	20.20	–		Five Star Movement	118,273	19.73	7
	Stefano Flajani	2,974	0.47	–		CasaPound	2,560	0.42	–
Invalid votes		18,808	–
Total candidates		624,482	100.00	2	Total parties		599,356	100.00	29
Registered voters		1,211,204	53.11
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results Archived 12 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine