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Camera dei Deputati

Type Lower house
President of the Chamber Gianfranco Fini, PdL
since April 30, 2008
Members 630
Political groups Pdl 275
PD 217
Lega Nord 60
UDC 35
Idv 29
Misto 14
Last elections April 13–14, 2008
Meeting place Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome
Web site http://www.camera.it

The Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei Deputati) is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. It has 630 seats, a majority of which are controlled presently by supporters of the Silvio Berlusconi right-wing coalition People of Freedom.Twelve deputies represent Italian citizens outside of Italy. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio. The current president is Gianfranco Fini, a leader of the People of Freedom party. A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. ... Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952 in Bologna) is an Italian politician, currently Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Silvio Berlusconi. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political movement in Italy, headed by former magistrate and Mani Pulite campaigner Antonio Di Pietro. ... The Democratic Party (Partito Democratico, PD) is a centre-left political party in Italy. ... The Lega Nord (Northern League, LN), whose complete name is Lega Nord for the Independence of Padania, is an Italian political party founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties in northern Italy, most of which had arisen, and all of which had expanded their share of the... Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political movement in Italy, headed by former magistrate and Mani Pulite campaigner Antonio Di Pietro. ... Palazzo Montecitorio The Palazzo Montecitorio is a palace in Rome, which is currently the seat of the Italian Chamber of deputies. ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. ... The Parliament of Italy (Italian: Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of Italy. ...   (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and is expected to be appointed President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, a position he has held twice before. ... Palazzo Montecitorio The Palazzo Montecitorio is a palace in Rome, which is currently the seat of the Italian Chamber of deputies. ... Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952 in Bologna) is an Italian politician, currently Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Silvio Berlusconi. ...

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Composition of the elected Chamber of Deputies.
Composition of the elected Chamber of Deputies.
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Summary of the April 13–14, 2008 Chamber of Deputies election
Parties and alliances Votes % Change Seats Change
   S. Berlusconi coalition

17,063,874 The Lega Nord (Northern League, LN), whose complete name is Lega Nord for the Independence of Padania, is an Italian political party founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties in northern Italy, most of which had arisen, and all of which had expanded their share of the... The Movement for Autonomy (Italian: Movimento per lAutonomia or MPA) is a minor Italian political party, founded on April 30, 2005 by a number of Southern Italian, especially Sicilian, centre-of-right autonomist dissidents, notably from Democrats Centre Union and National Alliance. ...


13,628,865
3,024,522
410,487

46.81


37.39
8.3
1.13

+4.51[1]


–1.21
+2.84
+1.13

344


276
60
8

+102


+60
+34
+8
   W. Veltroni Coalition

13,686,673 The Democratic Party (Partito Democratico, PD) is a proposed political party in Italy. ... Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political movement in Italy, headed by former magistrate and Mani Pulite campaigner Antonio Di Pietro. ...


12,092,998
1,593,675

37.54


33.17
4.37

+4.05[2]


+1.97
+2.08

246


217
29

+9


–3
+12
   Union of the Centre 2,050,319 5.62 –1.13 36 –3
   The Left – The Rainbow 1,124,418 3.08 –7.1[3] 0 –72
   The Right–Tricolour Flame 885,229 2.43 — 0 —
   Socialist Party 355,581 0.98 –1.91[4] 0 –18
   South Tyrolean People's Party 147,666 0.41 –0.07 2 –2
   Autonomy Liberty Democracy 29,311 0.08 –0.01 1 ±0
   Movimento Associativo Italiani all'Estero — — — 1 —
   Others 1,138,545 3.11 — — –16
Total 36,527,231 100% 630

The Socialist Party (Partito Socialista, PS) was a tiny social-democratic party in Italy. ... The South Tyrolese Peoples Party (German: Südtiroler Volkspartei) was founded 1945 and is a political party in the South Tyrol region of Italy. ... Autonomy Liberty Democracy (French: Autonomie Liberté Démocratie) is a political party in Italy, active in Val dAosta. ...

Presidents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

List of Presidents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies


See also

The Parliament of Italy (Italian: Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of Italy. ... Palazzo Madama house of the Senate of the Republic. ... Chamber of Deputies is the name given to a legislative body, which may either be the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or the name of a unicameral one. ... A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. ... This article is about bicameralism in government. ...

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Obelisk of Montecitorio. In the background is the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Back side of Palazzo Montecitorio designed by architect Ernesto Basile. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 546 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Italian Chamber of Deputies ... Palazzo Montecitorio The Palazzo Montecitorio is a palace in Rome, which is currently the seat of the Italian Chamber of deputies. ...

Front side of Palazzo Montecitorio. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 680 KB) Italien Parliament Building, Palazzo Montecitorio (Camera dei Deputati), Roma / Italia - Rome, Italy Source : self-made User:Hadi Nov 2004 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not...

Another photo of the main entrace of Montecitorio with the Montecitorio column.
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Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Italian Parliament - The Chamber of Deputies (1994-2001) (2010 words)
Approximately three-quarters of the deputies in each district are elected in single-member colleges; PR is used to choose the remaining one-quarter, except in Valle d'Aosta, which elects one deputy in a single-member constituency.
Chamber single-member colleges are filled by the plurality or first-past-the-post method, under which the candidate obtaining the largest number of votes in each college is elected.
To illustrate the functioning of the reformed electoral system, the results of the May, 2001 Chamber election in the entire country and the tenth electoral district, formed by the Liguria region (which extends over the Italian Riviera and surrounding areas), are presented here in detail.
Reform in Italy (1287 words)
Although the laws for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies on the surface differed considerably before the referendum, both were highly proportional voting systems.
Given that the Italian government is equally responsible to each chamber of parliament, it was clearly untenable to have the two chambers elected by radically different systems.
In both chambers of Parliament, three quarters of the seats are to be filled from single-member districts by First-Past-the-Post, while the remaining quarter are reserved as "proportional compensation seats" to provide more representation for minority parties.
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