Politics of Molise

The Politics of Molise, 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 (Assessori), who are currently 8.^[1]

List of Presidents

Elected by the Regional Council (1970–2000)

	Name	Term of office		Political party	Legislature
1	Carlo Vitale	1970	1973	DC	I (1970)
2	Giustino D'Uva	1973	1975	DC	I (1970)
3	Florindo D'Aimmo	1975	1980	DC	II (1975)
3	Florindo D'Aimmo	1980	1982	DC	III (1980)
(2)	Giustino D'Uva	1982	1984	DC
4	Ulderico Adolfo Calogiovanni	1984	1985	DC
5	Paolo Nuvoli	1985	1988	DC	IV (1985)
6	Fernando Di Laura Frattura	1988	1990	DC	IV (1985)
7	Enrico Santoro	1990	1992	DC	V (1990)
8	Luigi Di Bartolomeo	1992	1994	DC
9	Giovanni Di Giandomenico	1994	1995	DC
10	Marcello Veneziale (b. 1941)	7 June 1995	20 November 1998^[a]	PDS	VI (1995)
11	Angelo Michele Iorio (b. 1948)	20 November 1998	11 May 1999^[b]	FI
(10)	Marcello Veneziale (b. 1941)	11 May 1999	20 May 2000	DS

Directly-elected presidents (since 2000)

President		Term of office		Party	Legislature
12	Giovanni Di Stasi (b. 1950)	20 May 2000	21 November 2001^[c]	DS	VII (2000)
(11)	Angelo Michele Iorio (b. 1948)	21 November 2001	30 November 2006	FI PdL	VIII (2001)
		30 November 2006	15 November 2011		IX (2006)
		15 November 2011	18 March 2013^[d]		X (2011)
13	Paolo Di Laura Frattura (b. 1962)	18 March 2013	8 May 2018	PD	XI (2013)
14	Donato Toma (b. 1957)	8 May 2018	6 July 2023	FI	XII (2018)
15	Francesco Roberti (b. 1967)	6 July 2023	In office	FI	XIII (2023)

^ Resigned after losing the majority in the Regional Council, which then elected the leader of the opposition Angelo Michele Iorio (FI) as the new President.
^ Resigned after losing the majority in the Regional Council, which then re-elected the former President Marcello Veneziale to the office.
^ In 2001 the Administrative Regional Court (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale or TAR) found some irregularities in the previous year regional election and ordered a recall election.
^ In 2012 the Administrative Regional Court (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale or TAR) found some irregularities in the 2011 regional election and ordered a recall election.

Legislative branch

The Regional Council of Molise (Consiglio Regionale del Molise) is composed of 30 members. 24 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 6 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 3 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 26. 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]

Elections

Latest regional election


Candidates	Regional lists			Provincial lists				Total
Candidates	votes	%	seats	Parties	votes	%	seats	group
Paolo di Laura Frattura	85,881	44.70	3	Democratic Party	24,892	14.84	3	12
				Rise Molise	14,282	8.51	1
				Italy of Values	12,156	7.25	1
				Union for Molise	11,022	6.57	1
				Union of Democrats for Europe	6,831	4.07	1
				Party of Italian Communists	5,512	3.29	1
				Left Ecology Freedom	5,015	2.99	1
				Italian Socialist Party	3,149	1.88	0
				We for Molise	1,282	0.76	-
Michele Iorio	49,567	25.80	1	The People of Freedom	17,310	10.32	2	5
				Union of the Centre	10,514	6.27	1
				Great South	8,565	5.10	1
				Project Molise	7,383	4.40	-
				The Right	2,440	1.45	-
Antonio Federico	32,200	16.76	-	Five Star Movement	20,437	12.18	2	2
Massimo Romano	21.160	11.0	-	Building Democracy	8,503	5.07	1	1
				Act Molise	4,941	2.94	0
				Democrats for Molise	1,114	0.66	0
Antonio De Lellis	2,158	1.12	-	Democratic Revolution	1,562	0.93	0	–
Camillo Colella	1,141	0.59	-	Work, Sport and Social	873	0.52	0	–
Total candidates	192,107	100.00	5	Total parties	167,783	100.00	16	21

Source: Ministry of the Interior

References

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[2] Resigned after losing the majority in the Regional Council, which then elected the leader of the opposition Angelo Michele Iorio (FI) as the new President.

[3] Resigned after losing the majority in the Regional Council, which then re-elected the former President Marcello Veneziale to the office.

[4] In 2001 the Administrative Regional Court (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale or TAR) found some irregularities in the previous year regional election and ordered a recall election.

[5] In 2012 the Administrative Regional Court (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale or TAR) found some irregularities in the 2011 regional election and ordered a recall election.

[1] ttp://www.regione.molise.it/pim/pimrm.nsf/0/4E4DBF6F20DABDC3C12573260053105A?OpenDocument

[6] La Repubblica – Regional electoral law

[7] Regional Council of Lombardy – 1999 Constitutional law

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