Editing Politics of Italy (section)

==Political parties and elections==
{{elect|List of political parties in Italy|Elections in Italy}}
Before 2021, the minimum voting age for all elections was 18 years old, aside for Senate elections, where the minimum voting age was 25 years old. Following the approval of Constitutional Law No. 1/2021, the minimum [[voting age]] for the Senate of the Republic became the same as for the Chamber of Deputies (18 years old and no longer 25). The [[2022 Italian general election]] was the first one in which both chambers had identical electoral bodies.<ref>{{cite news|author=Laura Biariella|title=Senato: elettorato attivo (anche) ai 18enni|website=AltaLex|date=2021-07-08|url=https://www.altalex.com/documents/news/2021/07/08/senato-elettorato-attivo-anche-ai-18enni}}</ref>

===Chamber of Deputies===
[[File:Risultati elezioni politiche italiane 2022 - Camera dei deputati - Per liste.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|Composition of the Chamber of Deputies following the [[2022 Italian general election|25 September 2022 election]]]]

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" |Coalition
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" |Party
! style="text-align:center;" |Seats
! style="text-align:center;" |%
|-
| rowspan="5" bgcolor="{{party color|Centre-right coalition}}" |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:left;" |[[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|Centre-right coalition]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Brothers of Italy}}" | 
| align="left" |[[Brothers of Italy]] 
|119
|29.7
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Lega per Salvini Premier}}" |
| align="left" |[[Lega per Salvini Premier|League]] 
|66
|16.5
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Forza Italia (2013)}}" |
| align="left" |{{Lang|it|[[Forza Italia (2013)|Forza Italia]]|italic=no}} 
|45
|11.2
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Us Moderates}}" |
| align="left" |[[Us Moderates]]
|7
|1.7
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |'''Total seats'''
|'''237'''
|'''59.2'''
|-
| rowspan="6" bgcolor="{{party color|Centre-left coalition}}" |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:left;" |[[Centre-left coalition (Italy)|Centre-left coalition]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Democratic Party - Democratic and Progressive Italy|Democratic Party-IDP]] 
|57
|14.4
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Greens and Left Alliance}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Greens and Left Alliance]]
|12
|3.0
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|More Europe}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[More Europe]]
|2
|0.5
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Civic Commitment}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Civic Commitment]]
|1
|0.5
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Aosta Valley (political coalition)}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Aosta Valley (political coalition)|Aosta Valley]]
|1
|0.5
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |'''Total seats'''
|'''68'''
|'''17.0'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Five Star Movement}};" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Five Star Movement]] 
|'''52'''
|'''13.0'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Action (Italy)}};" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Action - Italia Viva]]
|'''21'''
|'''5.2'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}};" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[South Tyrolean People's Party]]
|'''3'''
|'''0.7'''
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|South calls North}}" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | [[South Calls North]]
|'''1'''
|'''0.25'''
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Associative Movement of Italians Abroad}}" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Associative Movement of Italians Abroad]] 
|'''1'''
|'''0.25'''
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" |'''Total'''
|'''400'''
|'''100'''
|}

===Senate of the Republic===
[[File: Risultati elezioni politiche italiane 2022 - Senato della Repubblica - Per liste.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|Composition of the Senate following the [[2022 Italian general election|25 September 2022 election]]]]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" |Coalition
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" |Party
! style="text-align:center;" |Seats
! style="text-align:center;" |%
|-
| rowspan="5" bgcolor="{{party color|Centre-right coalition}}" |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:left;" |[[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|Centre-right coalition]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Brothers of Italy}}" | 
| align="left" |[[Brothers of Italy]] 
|65
|32.5
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Lega per Salvini Premier}}" |
| align="left" |[[Lega per Salvini Premier|League]] 
|30
|15.0
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Forza Italia (2013)}}" |
| align="left" |{{Lang|it|[[Forza Italia (2013)|Forza Italia]]|italic=no}} 
|18
|9.0
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Us Moderates}}" |
| align="left" |[[Us Moderates]]
|2
|1.0
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |'''Total seats'''
|'''115'''
|'''57.5'''
|-
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="{{party color|Centre-left coalition}}" |
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Centre-left coalition (Italy)|Centre-left coalition]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Democratic Party - Democratic and Progressive Italy|Democratic Party-IDP]] 
|40
|20.0
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Greens and Left Alliance}}" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Greens and Left Alliance]]
|4
|2.0
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |'''Total seats'''
|'''44'''
|'''22.0'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Five Star Movement}};" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Five Star Movement]] 
|'''28'''
|'''14.0'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Action (Italy)}};" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Action - Italia Viva]]
|'''9'''
|'''4.5'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}};" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[South Tyrolean People's Party]]
|'''2'''
|'''1.0'''
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|South calls North}}" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | [[South Calls North]]
|'''1'''
|'''0.5'''
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Associative Movement of Italians Abroad}}" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |[[Associative Movement of Italians Abroad]] 
|'''1'''
|'''0.5'''
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" |'''Total'''
|'''200'''
|'''100'''
|}

===Political parties===

Italy's dramatic self-renewal transformed the political landscape between 1992 and 1997. Scandal investigations touched thousands of politicians, administrators and businessmen; the shift from a proportional to the [[Scorporo|scorporo system]] (with the requirement to obtain a minimum of 4% of the national vote to obtain representation) also altered the political landscape.  Party changes were sweeping. The Christian Democratic party dissolved; the Italian People's Party and the Christian Democratic Center emerged. Other major parties, such as the Socialists, saw support plummet. A new [[liberalism|liberal]] movement, {{Lang|it|[[Forza Italia]]|italic=no}}, gained wide support among moderate voters. The [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]] broke from the  neo-fascist [[Italian Social Movement]] (MSI). A trend toward two large coalitions (one on the center-left and the other on the center-right) emerged from the April 1995 regional elections. For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the [[The Olive Tree (Italy)|Olive Tree]] coalition while the center-right united again under the [[House of Freedoms]]. These coalitions continued into the 2001 and 2007 national elections.<ref>Geoffrey Pridham, ''Political Parties and Coalitional Behaviour in Italy'' (2013),</ref>

{{Main|Italian general election, 2006}}

This emerging bipolarity represents a major break from the fragmented, multi-party political landscape of the postwar era, although it appears to have reached a plateau since efforts via referendums to further curtail the influence of small parties were defeated in 1999, 2000 and 2009.<ref>Günther Pallaver et al. eds. ''Populism, Populists, and the Crisis of Political Parties: A Comparison of Italy, Austria, and Germany 1990-2015'' (2018) [https://www.amazon.com/Populism-Populists-Crisis-Political-Parties-ebook/dp/B07F3HP38J/  excerpt]</ref>