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The Politics of Piedmont, 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
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, who are currently 14, including a Vice President (Vice Presidente).[1]
Current composition
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List of Presidents
| President | Term of office | Party | Coalition | Administration | Legislature | |||
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| Presidents elected by the Regional Council of Piedmont (1970–1995) | ||||||||
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Edoardo Calleri di Sala (1927–2002) |
23 July 1970 |
21 December 1973 |
Christian Democracy | DC • PSI • PSDI • PRI | Calleri di Sala | I (1970) |
| 2 |
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Gianni Oberto Tarena (1902–1980) |
21 December 1973 |
21 July 1975 |
Christian Democracy | DC • PSI • PSDI • PRI | Tarena | |
| 3 |
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Aldo Vigilone (1923–1988) |
21 July 1975 |
28 July 1980 |
Italian Socialist Party | PSI • PCI | Vigilone I | II (1975) |
| 4 |
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Ezio Enrietti (1936–2020) |
28 July 1980 |
15 July 1983 |
Italian Socialist Party | PSI • PCI | Enrietti | III (1980) |
| 3 |
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Aldo Vigilone (1923–1988) |
15 July 1983 |
1 August 1985 |
Italian Socialist Party | DC • PSI • PSDI • PRI • PLI | Vigilone II | |
| 5 |
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Vittorio Beltrami (1926–2012) |
1 August 1985 |
25 July 1990 |
Christian Democracy | DC • PSI • PSDI • PRI • PLI | Beltrami | IV (1985) |
| 6 |
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Gian Paolo Brizio (1929–2008) |
25 July 1990 |
16 March 1993 |
Christian Democracy | DC • PSI • PSDI • PRI • PLI | Brizio I | V (1990) |
| 16 March 1993 |
12 June 1995 |
DC • PSI • FdV • PDS • RI | Brizio II | |||||
| Directly-elected presidents (since 1995) | ||||||||
| 7 | 
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Enzo Ghigo (b. 1953) |
12 June 1995 |
17 April 2000 |
Forza Italia | FI • AN • CCD | Ghigo I | VI (1995) |
| 17 April 2000 |
27 April 2005 |
FI • AN • LN • CCD | Ghigo II | VII (2000) | ||||
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Mercedes Bresso (b. 1944) |
27 April 2005 |
30 March 2010 |
Democrats of the Left Democratic Party |
DS • DL • PRC • FdV | Bresso | VIII (2005) |
| 9 | 
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Roberto Cota (b. 1968) |
30 March 2010 |
9 June 2014[a] |
Lega Nord | PdL • LN | Cota | IX (2010) |
| 10 | 
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Sergio Chiamparino (b. 1948) |
9 June 2014 |
6 June 2019 |
Democratic Party | PD • SEL | Chiamparino | X (2014) |
| 11 | 
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Alberto Cirio (b. 1972) |
6 June 2019 |
In office | Forza Italia | LN • FI • FdI | Cirio | XI (2019) |
- ^ Election invalidated for irregularities.
Legislative branch
The Regional Council of Piedmont (Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte) is composed of 60 members. 48 councilors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 12 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 6 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 54. 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 prevision 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]
Current composition
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Elections
Last regional election
The last regional election took place on 28–29 March 2010. The incumbent President of the Region, Mercedes Bresso of the centre-left Democratic Party, lost her seat to Roberto Cota, leader of Lega Piemont and floor leader of Lega Nord in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who was backed also by The People of Freedom. Cota's lead of Bresso was of only 0.4%, in one of the Region's narrowest elections ever.
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The 2010 Piedmontese regional election took place on 28–29 March 2010 as part of Italy's round of regional elections. Mercedes Bresso of the centre-left Democratic Party, the incumbent president of the region, lost her seat to Roberto Cota, leader of the Northern League Piedmont (Lega Piemonte) and floor leader of Lega Nord (Northern League) in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who was backed also by The People of Freedom.[4]
Cota's lead of Bresso was of only 0.4%, in one of the region's narrowest elections ever. The League thus secured a second region, after having conquered the presidency of Veneto with Luca Zaia with a much more convincing margin.
Electoral system
Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the Tatarella law, which was approved in 1995 and provided for a mixed electoral system. Four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a single regional constituency, where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare quota among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian representation system, in which the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the region, while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.
A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes. The panachage was also allowed; the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.
Background
Bresso was one of the last bulwarks of the country's centre-left coalition in Central Italy and thus all Democratic Party members endorsed her in a key test of the coalition's strength after two years in opposition in Rome. For his part, Cota's choice was a little bit surprising as Piedmont is not really a stronghold for his party, which is much stronger in Veneto and Lombardy. The day after his bid was announced, Cota explained that it is time to rewrite the history of Italian unification, that was led by the Kingdom of Sardinia under the House of Savoy. Cota underlined that Piedmont was once an independent state and told that even Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, did not intend to unify the whole Italian Peninsula and later favoured a federal reform of the new Kingdom of Italy.
Cota, who is a republican and has no nostalgia of the House of Savoy, said his message would do well in Piedmont and that he would overcome the weakness of Lega Piemonte that usually gets far fewer votes than Liga Veneta in Veneto and Lega Lombarda in Lombardy. In Cota's view, most of his support would come from industrial workers, including those of Southern Italy descent, and Catholics embarrassed by Bresso's secularism.[5] The Union of the Centre, whose main aim in the election was to fight back the Northern League, chose to support Bresso, turning down the chance of running its own candidate, the most likely being Michele Vietti.[6] Most Catholic voters disagreed.
Parties and candidates
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 30.4 | 17 | Mercedes Bresso | ||
| Federation of the Left | 9.0 | 5 | ||||
| Union of the Centre | 4.6 | 2 | ||||
| Together for Bresso | 2.9 | 1 | ||||
| Federation of the Greens | 2.8 | 1 | ||||
| Italian Socialist Party – United Socialists | 2.4 | 1 | ||||
| Italy of Values | 1.5 | 1 | ||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | — | — | ||||
| Moderates | — | — | ||||
| Bonino-Pannella List | — | — | ||||
| Others | — | — | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom | 31.9 | 16 | Roberto Cota | ||
| Northern League Piedmont | 8.5 | 4 | ||||
| Greens Greens | 1.2 | 1 | ||||
| Consumers | 1.1 | 1 | ||||
| Pensioners' Party | 0.6 | – | ||||
| Others | — | — | ||||
| Five Star Movement | — | — | Davide Bono | |||
Results
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Roberto Cota | 1,043,318 | 47.33 | 12 | ||||||
| The People of Freedom | 474,431 | 25.05 | 13 | ||||||
| Northern League Piedmont | 317,065 | 16.74 | 9 | ||||||
| Greens Greens | 33,411 | 1.76 | 1 | ||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 27,797 | 1.47 | 1 | ||||||
| The Right | 12,581 | 0.66 | – | ||||||
| To the Centre with Scanderebech | 12,154 | 0.64 | – | ||||||
| Alliance of the Centre – Christian Democracy | 5,704 | 0.30 | – | ||||||
| New Italian Socialist Party | 3,947 | 0.21 | – | ||||||
| Consumers | 8,826 | 0.15 | – | ||||||
| Total | 889,916 | 46.98 | 24 | ||||||
| Mercedes Bresso | 1,033,946 | 46.91 | 1 | ||||||
| Democratic Party | 439,663 | 23.21 | 12 | ||||||
| Italy of Values | 130,649 | 6.90 | 3 | ||||||
| Union of the Centre | 74,412 | 3.93 | 2 | ||||||
| Together for Bresso | 61,476 | 3.25 | 1 | ||||||
| Moderates | 58,010 | 3.06 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Left | 50,191 | 2.65 | 1 | ||||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 27,198 | 1.44 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 14,575 | 0.77 | – | ||||||
| Italian Socialist Party – United Socialists | 14,077 | 0.74 | – | ||||||
| Bonino-Pannella List | 13,572 | 0.72 | – | ||||||
| Pensioners and Disabled for Bresso | 12,564 | 0.66 | – | ||||||
| PiedmontYes – Populars – Autonomous Region | 4,150 | 0.22 | – | ||||||
| Total | 900,537 | 47.55 | 21 | ||||||
| Davide Bono | 90,086 | 4.09 | – | Five Star Movement | 69,448 | 3.67 | 2 | ||
| Renzo Rabellino | 36,999 | 1.68 | – | ||||||
| List of Talking Crickets – No Euro | 13,186 | 0.70 | – | ||||||
| Lega Padana Piemont | 7,805 | 0.41 | – | ||||||
| Forza Toro | 3,494 | 0.18 | – | ||||||
| New Force | 2,151 | 0.11 | – | ||||||
| Tricolour Flame | 1,998 | 0.11 | – | ||||||
| UDEUR – Christian Democracy – Others | 1,670 | 0.09 | – | ||||||
| No Nuclear – No TAV | 1,553 | 0.08 | – | ||||||
| Alliance for Turin | 1,237 | 0.07 | – | ||||||
| Young People Under 30 | 1,076 | 0.06 | – | ||||||
| Total | 34,170 | 1.80 | – | ||||||
| Total candidates | 2,204,349 | 100.00 | 13 | Total parties | 1,894,071 | 100.00 | 47 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | |||||||||
See also
References
- ^ Sito Ufficiale della Regione Piemonte: Giunta regionale
- ^ La Repubblica – Regional electoral law
- ^ Regional Council of Lombardy – 1999 Constitutional law
- ^ QuestIT s.r.l. "Archivio Corriere della Sera". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ QuestIT s.r.l. "Archivio Corriere della Sera". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Udc-Bresso, affare fattoin dote entra la Sanità". LaStampa.it. 23 December 2009. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
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