Politics of Liguria

The Politics of Liguria, 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 11, including a Vice President.^[1]

List of presidents

Presidents elected by the Regional Council (1970–1995)

#	Name	Term of office		Political party	Legislature
1	Gianni Dagnino	15 September 1970	14 April 1975	DC	I (1970)
2	Giorgio Luciano Verda	14 April 1975	29 July 1975	DC	I (1970)
3	Angelo Carossino	29 July 1975	4 July 1979	PCI	II (1975)
4	Armando Magliotto	4 July 1979	28 October 1980	PCI	II (1975)
5	Giovanni Persico	28 October 1980	27 September 1981	PRI	III (1980)
6	Alberto Teardo	27 September 1981	25 May 1983	PSI
7	Rinaldo Magnani	25 May 1983	9 October 1985	PSI
7	Rinaldo Magnani	9 October 1985	14 March 1990	PSI	IV (1985)
8	Renzo Muratore	14 March 1990	28 September 1990	PSI	IV (1985)
9	Giacomo Gualco	28 September 1990	14 January 1992	DC	V (1990)
10	Edmondo Ferrero	14 January 1992	20 July 1994	DC
11	Giancarlo Mori	20 July 1994	6 June 1995	PPI

Directly-elected presidents (since 1995)

N.	President	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)		Composition	Legislature
11	Giancarlo Mori (1938–2019)	6 June 1995	12 May 2000	4 years, 332 days	Italian People's Party	PDS–PPI–PdD–FdV	VI (1995)
12	Sandro Biasotti (1948– )	12 May 2000	14 April 2005	4 years, 337 days	Forza Italia	FI–AN–LN–CDC	VII (2000)
13	Claudio Burlando (1954– )	14 April 2005	7 April 2010	10 years, 58 days	Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party	Ulivo/PD–PRC–PdCI–FdV–IdV	VIII (2005)
13	Claudio Burlando (1954– )	7 April 2010	11 June 2015	10 years, 58 days	Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party	PD–IdV–UDC–FdS–SEL–FdV	IX (2010)
14	Giovanni Toti (1968– )	11 June 2015	12 October 2020	9 years, 45 days	Forza Italia	LN–FI–FdI	X (2015)
14	Giovanni Toti (1968– )	12 October 2020	26 July 2024	9 years, 45 days	Cambiamo! / Us Moderates	C!–LN–FdI–FI	XI (2020)

Legislative branch

The Regional Council of Liguria (Consiglio Regionale della Liguria) 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

Province	Inhabitants^[4]		Party	Election
Metropolitan City of Genoa	840,934	Marco Bucci	Independent (centre-right)	2017
Province of Imperia	213,743	Fabio Natta	Independent (centre-left)	2015
Province of La Spezia	219,693	Giorgio Cozzani	Independent (centre-right)	2017
Province of Savona	276,261	Pierangelo Oliveri	Independent (centre-right)	2018

Municipalities

Provincial capitals

Municipality	Inhabitants^[4]		Party	Election
Genoa	577,587	Marco Bucci	Independent (centre-right)	2017
Imperia	42,506	Claudio Scajola	Independent (centre-right)	2018
La Spezia	93,259	Pierluigi Peracchini	Independent (centre-right)	2017
Savona	60,469	Ilaria Caprioglio	Independent (centre-right)	2016

Parties and elections

Latest regional election

The latest regional election took place on 20–21 September 2020.

Giovanni Toti of Cambiamo!, a minor centre-right party, won handily re-election with 56.1% of the vote. His strongest challenger, Ferruccio Sansa, an independent supported by the centre-left coalition and the Five Star Movement, won 38.9%. Cambiamo! won 22.6%, followed by the Democratic Party (19.9%) and the League (17.1%).

20–21 September 2020 Ligurian regional election results
Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats

	Giovanni Toti	383,053	56.13	1		Let's Change with Toti for President	141,552	22.60	8
						League	107,371	17.14	6
						Brothers of Italy	68,062	10.87	3
						Forza Italia – Popular Liguria	33,040	5.27	1
						Union of the Centre	4,086	0.65	–
					Total		354,111	56.53	18
	Ferruccio Sansa	265,506	38.90	1		Democratic Party – Article One	124,586	19.89	6
						Five Star Movement	48,722	7.78	2
						Ferruccio Sansa for President	44,700	7.14	2
						Shared Line – Left for Sansa	15,451	2.47	1
						Green Europe – Solidary Democracy – Democratic Centre	9,193	1.47	–
					Total		242,652	38.74	11
	Aristide Massardo	16,546	2.42	–		Massardo for President (PSI – +E – IV)	15,081	2.41	–
	Alice Salvatore	6,088	0.89	–		The Common Sense	5,315	0.85	–
	Giacomo Chiappori	3,569	0.52	–		Great Liguria	3,063	0.49	–
	Riccardo Benetti	3,165	0.46	–		Now – Respect for all Animals	2,665	0.43	–
	Gaetano Russo	1,614	0.24	–		The People of Family	1,361	0.22	–
	Marika Cassimatis	1,244	0.18	–		Constitutional Base	911	0.15	–
	Davide Visigalli	1,129	0.17	–		Reconquer Italy	905	0.14	–
	Caro Carpi	576	0.08	–		Carlo Carpi List – GRAF	361	0.06	–

Blank and invalid votes		33,665	4.70
Total candidates		682,490	100.00	2	Total parties		626,425	100.00	29
Registered voters/turnout		1,360,604	53.42
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results^{[permanent dead link]}

References

^ "Regione Liguria - sito ufficiale". www.regione.liguria.it. Archived from the original on 9 December 2002. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
^ La Repubblica – Regional electoral law
^ Regional Council of Lombardy – 1999 Constitutional law
^ ^a ^b "Bilancio demografico anno 2018 (October 2018)". Istat. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

External links

[1] "Regione Liguria - sito ufficiale". www.regione.liguria.it. Archived from the original on 9 December 2002. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

[2] La Repubblica – Regional electoral law

[3] Regional Council of Lombardy – 1999 Constitutional law

[istat-4] "Bilancio demografico anno 2018 (October 2018)". Istat. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

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