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On the following day, delegates from FdI, the League (Lega), whose member Lorenzo Fontana had been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies on 14 October), [19] [20] Forza Italia (FI), and the group of Civics of Italy–Us Moderates–MAIE told Mattarella they had reached an agreement to form a coalition government with Meloni as Prime ...
On 13 October, Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) refused to support La Russa's candidacy for President of the Senate of the Republic. [17] La Russa nonetheless succeeded in being elected by obtaining 116 votes out of 206 in the first round, [ 18 ] thanks to support from opposition parties.
In the 2018 Italian general election, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. [1] On 4 March, the centre-right coalition, in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio became the ...
On 17 September 2019 the centrist party Italia Viva (IV), which splintered from the PD on that day, announced its support for the coalition, as well. The government has been referred to as the "yellow-red government" (governo giallorosso), based on the customary colours of the main supporting parties. [5] [6] [7]
At its birth, the government was also supported by the Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE), five deputies and two senators previously expelled from the M5S, one dissident senator from the South American Union Italian Emigrants (USEI) [12] who later joined the MAIE and one deputy of Forza Italia (FI) who sarcastically voted in favour of it. [13]
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa (born 18 July 1947) is an Italian politician who is serving as president of the Senate of the Republic since 13 October 2022. [1] He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate, the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.
The 2019 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that occurred between August and September 2019. It includes the events that follow the announcement of the Minister of the Interior and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, that he would revoke League's support of the cabinet and ask the President of the Republic to call a snap election.
He held the office of provincial councilor of Cuneo from 1999 to 2009, holding the position of group leader of Forza Italia (FI), the centre-right political movement member of European People's Party (EPP) which was founded by the billionaire and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi and which he joined in 2000. He chaired the conference of Mayors of ...