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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[edit]

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[edit]

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
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)
			7 April 2010	11 June 2015				PD–IdV–UDC–FdS–SEL–FdV	IX (2010)
14		Giovanni Toti (1968– )	11 June 2015	12 October 2020	8 years, 312 days		Forza Italia	LN–FI–FdI	X (2015)
			12 October 2020	Incumbent			Cambiamo!	C!–LN–FdI–FI	XI (2020)

Legislative branch[edit]

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[edit]

Provinces[edit]

Municipalities[edit]

Provincial capitals[edit]

Parties and elections[edit]

Latest regional election[edit]

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[edit]

External links[edit]

• Liguria Region
• Constitution of Liguria^{[permanent dead link]}