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The local councils of the 19 municipi of Rome have all gone to the centre-left in the local elections of 28 and 29 May. Most were won by over 60 per cent with the only close call being Municipio XX around the Cassia nor...
Romano Prodi, the leader of the LUnione centre-left coalition, which won the general elections on 9 and 10 April, has presented his government to Giorgio Napolitano, the new Italian president. The new government is made...
In contrast to the national elections, non-Italians can vote in the local elections on 28 and 29 May if they are a European Union (EU) citizen and have residency in Rome. EU citizens without Rome residency can only vote...
The combined houses of the Italian parliament have elected Giorgio Napolitano the new president for the Italian republic. He won with 543 out of a total of 990 votes counted on the fourth ballot when only a simple majori...
Elections for the Rome mayor and city council are due to be held on 28 and 29 May. The lists of candidates for the elections for the city councillors and for the mayor have now all been screened by the city electoral off...
The Italian spring is crowded with important elections. Once the general election results have finally been confirmed the senate and the chamber of deputies have to vote for a new president of the Italian republic. Two w...
The contested ballot papers in the Italian elections last week have turned out to be lower than expected according to the ministry of the interior. There are now only about 2,000 disputed ballots rather than the 45,000 e...
The mandate of the president of the Italian republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, expires on 18 May so he may not be the person who nominates the countrys new prime minister.
The first appointment for all of the newly elected...
A reassessment of some ballot papers was set to take place by 22.00 on Thursday evening following the refusal by centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi to accept defeat in the elections. Around 43,000 ballot papers for th...
In one of the toughest and closest-run elections in the countrys post-war history an unofficial projection now gives the centre-left LUnione coalition a majority of two seats in the senate. If this is officially confirme...
As Italians went to bed on Monday 10 April there was the possibility that they might wake with the centre-right Casa delle Libert coalition, led by Silvio Berlusconi, back in control of the senate, and the centre-left LU...
Thanks to a proposal by the foreign minister Gianfranco Fini, Italy has offered political asylum to Abdul Rahman, the Afghan citizen who risked being sentenced to death in his home country because he had converted from t...
The first round of the pre-election face-to-face encounters between Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the Casa della Libert coalition, and the leader of the opposition LUnione coalition, Romano Prodi,...
Local elections in Italy for 11 provincial governments, councils for 28 provincial capitals, including Rome, and the Sicilian regional government will be held on 28-29 May. In all 1,307 cities, towns and villages will be...
Italian politicians have accused France of neo protectionism and have strongly criticised the proposed merger between two French energy companies, Suez and Gaz de France, announced by the French prime minister, Dominique...
As the general election campaign hots up, Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who has never hidden his antipathy for the judiciary, has already made a number of attacks on magistrates. He has accused some of t...
As Italy approaches a general election on 9 and 10 April, the campaign is well under way and opinion polls are published almost daily, with both the right and the left now claiming that it is ahead.
The rules on opinion...
An opinion poll, conducted on the 12-13 January by the market research group IPSOS, shows that 73 per cent of Rome's voters expect to return the incumbent, Walter Veltroni, to office at the city elections this spring. H...
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni was triumphant in the primaries on Sunday 14 October for the leader of the nascent Democratic Party (PD), which will unite the two largest centre-left parties, the Margherita and Democratici di...
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