Politics of Liguria

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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.

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]

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	9 years, 45 days		Forza Italia	LN–FI–FdI	X (2015)
			12 October 2020	26 July 2024			Cambiamo! / Us Moderates	C!–Lega–FdI–FI	XI (2020)
–		Alessandro Piana (1972– )	26 July 2024	9 November 2024	106 days		Lega	C!–Lega–FdI–FI
15		Marco Bucci (1959– )	9 November 2024	incumbent	43 days		Independent	FdI–NM–Lega–FI	XII (2024)

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]

This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (December 2022)

The latest regional election took place on 28–29 October 2024.

Marco Bucci, the independent centre-right mayor of Genoa, narrowly defeated former minister Andrea Orlando of the Democratic Party, retaining the region for the centre-right.

27–28 October 2024 Ligurian regional election results

Results by party Results by coalition
Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Marco Bucci	291,093	48.77	1		Brothers of Italy	84,816	15.08	5
						Bucci for President Liguria Wins	53,208	9.46	3
						League	47,652	8.47	3
						Forza Italia	44,849	7.98	3
						Ligurian Pride	32,061	5.70	3
						Union of the Centre	7,294	1.30	–
						Popular Alternative	1,929	0.34	–
					Total		271,809	48.34	17
	Andrea Orlando	282,669	47.36	1		Democratic Party	160,063	28.47	8
						Greens and Left Alliance	34,716	6.17	2
						Andrea Orlando List	29,808	5.30	1
						Five Star Movement	25,659	4.56	1
						Civic Reformist Pact	9,813	1.75	–
						Head-on Ligurians	9,127	1.62	–
					Total		269,186	47.87	12
	Nicola Morra	5,223	0.88	–		United for the Constitution	4,922	0.88	–
	Nicola Rollando	5,079	0.85	–		For the Alternative	4,920	0.87	–
	Francesco Toscano	5,071	0.85	–		Sovereign Popular Democracy	4,709	0.84	–
	Marco Ferrando	2,099	0.35	–		Workers' Communist Party	1,813	0.32	–
	Maria Antonietta Cella	2,076	0.35	–		Northern People’s Party	1,674	0.30	–
	Davide Felice	1,855	0.31	–		Force of the People	1,696	0.30	–
	Alessandro Rosson	1,668	0.28	–		Independence!	1,570	0.28	–
Total candidates		596,833	100.00	2	Total parties		562,299	100.00	29
Blank and invalid votes		15,915	2.58
Registered voters/turnout		1,341,693	45.97
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Election in Liguria

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