Legislature XVI of Italy XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana | |
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16th legislature | |
Type | |
Type | |
Houses |
Chamber of Deputies Senate of the Republic |
History | |
Founded | 29 April 2008 |
Disbanded | 14 March 2013 | (4 years, 319 days)
Preceded by | XV Legislature |
Succeeded by | XVII Legislature |
Leadership | |
Structure | |
Seats | C: 630 S: 319 (315 + 4) |
Chamber of Deputies political groups | |
Senate political groups | |
Elections | |
Porcellum | |
Porcellum | |
Last general election | 13–14 April 2008 |
Meeting place | |
Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome (C) | |
Palazzo Madama, Rome (S) | |
Website | |
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Constitution | |
Constitution of Italy |
The Legislature XVI of Italy ( Italian: XVI Legislatura della Repubblica Italiana) started on 29 April 2008 and ended on 14 March 2013. [1] [2] Its composition resulted from the snap election of 13–14 April 2008, called after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the houses on 6 February 2008. [3] The dissolution of the Parliament was a consequence of the defeat of the incumbent government led by Romano Prodi during a vote of confidence in the Senate. [4]
The legislature was dissolved by President Napolitano on 22 December 2012, a few months before the end of its natural five-year term. [5]
Prime Minister | Party | Term of office | Government | Composition | |||
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Took office | Left office | ||||||
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023) |
The People of Freedom | 8 May 2008 | 16 November 2011 | Berlusconi IV |
PdL •
LN •
MpA ( Centre-right coalition) | ||
Mario Monti (b. 1943) |
Independent | 16 November 2011 | 28 April 2013 | Monti |
Independents ( Technocratic cabinet) |
The number of elected deputies is 630.
Initial composition [6] | Final composition [7] | ||||||||
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Parliamentary group | Seats | Parliamentary group | Seats | Change | |||||
People of Freedom | 275 | People of Freedom | 202 | 73 | |||||
Democratic Party | 217 | Democratic Party | 203 | 14 | |||||
Lega Nord Padania | 60 | Northern League Padania | 58 | 2 | |||||
Union of the Centre | 35 | Union of the Centre for the Third Pole | 36 | 1 | |||||
Italy of Values | 29 | Italy of Values | 15 | 14 | |||||
Future and Freedom for the Third Pole | 24 | 24 | |||||||
People and Territory ( We the South–Freedom and Autonomy, The Populars of Italy Tomorrow-PID, Movement of National Responsibility-MRN, Popular Action, Alliance of the Centre-AdC, Popular Agreement) | 21 | 21 | |||||||
Mixed | 14 | Mixed | 71 | 57 | |||||
Movement for Autonomy | 8 | Movement for the Autonomies – Allied for the South | 4 | 4 | |||||
Linguistic Minorities | 3 | Linguistic Minorities | 3 | ||||||
Great South – PPA | 10 | 10 | |||||||
Free Italy – Italian Populars – Populars for Europe – Liberals for Italy – Italian Liberal Party | 10 | 10 | |||||||
Rights and Freedom | 5 | 5 | |||||||
Democratic Centre | 4 | 4 | |||||||
FareItalia for the Popular Constituent | 4 | 4 | |||||||
Italian Republican Party – Actionists | 4 | 4 | |||||||
Liberal Democrats – MAIE | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Autonomy South – Lega Sud Ausonia – Souvereign Peoples of Europe | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Liberal Initiative | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Non inscrits | 3 | Non inscrits | 18 | 15 | |||||
Total seats | 630 | Total seats | 630 |
The number of elected senators was 315. At the start of the legislature there were seven life senators ( Francesco Cossiga, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as former Presidents, as well as nominated life senators Giulio Andreotti, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Emilio Colombo and Sergio Pininfarina), making the total number of senators 322. At the end of the legislature, after the deaths of Cossiga, Scalfaro, Levi-Montalcini and Pininfarina, and the nomination of a new life senator ( Mario Monti) the total number of senators went down to 319.