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Politics and government of
Italy Image File history File links free clipart image of ballot box and ballot File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ... Politics, sometimes defined as the art and science of government. ... Image taken from Presidenza della Repubblica, in Italian. ... Politics of Italy takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ...

• Constitution
• President
  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
• Prime Minister of Italy
  • Silvio Berlusconi (term expiring)
• Parliament
  • Senate
  • Chamber of Deputies
• Political parties and coalitions
  • House of Freedoms
  • The Union
• Elections
  • 1948 - 1996 - 2001
    2006
• Referenda
• Regions
• EU Politics

• Foreign relations
• Political scandals

Flag of the President of the Italian Republic This is the list of Presidents of the Italian Republic with the title Presidente della Repubblica since 1948. ... Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born in Livorno, 9 December 1920) was elected as the tenth President of the Italian Republic on May 13, 1999. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Italy. ... (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Italian Senate (Italian: Senato della Repubblica, Senate of the Republic) is the upper house of the Parliament of Italy. ... The Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei Deputati) is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. ... Political parties in Italy are organized into two dominant political coalitions. ... Casa delle Libertà, or House of Freedoms in English, is an Italian right of center party alliance led by national media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. ... LUnione (The Union in English) is an Italian left-wing coalition of parties. ... Elections in Italy gives information on election and election results in Italy. ... The Italian elections of 1948 were the first democratic elections with universal suffrage ever held in Italy. ... An early national general election was held in Italy on April 21, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ... A national general election was held in Italy on May 13, 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ... A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ... The Constitution of Italy provides for legally binding referenda. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... The European Union or EU is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 European states. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... This article describes the foreign relations of Italy. ... This is a list of major political scandals in Italy: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconis many corruption charges Tax evasion bribing members of the judicary immunity legislation Media manipulation fro political propaganda P2 scandal, 1980s Tangentopoli (diffuse corruption cases in national politics), early 1990s Categories: Incomplete lists | Politics of Italy... A map of the Italian peninsula circa 1494. ...