Members of the Regional Council of Veneto, 2005–2010

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This article is about the composition of the Regional Council of Veneto, the legislative assembly of Veneto, during the VIII Legislature, which is to say the term started in April 2005, following the 2005 regional election, and concluded in April 2010. Of the 60 members 47 were elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation with a further 12 returned from the so-called "regional list" of the elected President, including the President himself, and one given to the candidate for President who came second.^[1]

Marino Finozzi (Liga Veneta) was President of the Council for the whole term, while Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia) served as President of the Region at the head of its third government.

Composition

Thirteen parties were represented in the Council at the beginning of the term. They became fourteen when Massimo Carraro, the defeated candidate for President of the centre-left, resigned and was replaced by a regional deputy elected from the list of Italy of Values, thanks to an obscure clause of the electoral law.

The single largest party in the Council was Forza Italia, followed by Liga Veneta until February 2007, when the members of Democracy is Freedom – Daisy (7 regional deputies) and the Democrats of the Left (5 regional deputies) formed a joint-group, the "Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party", named after the future Italian Democratic Party, which was founded later in October. It was the first time in Italy that the name of the future party was used in an institutional contest.

Strength of political groups

Distribution of Seats in the Regional Council
Political Group	Leader	2005	2010
Forza Italia	Remo Sernagiotto	16	16
The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party	Giovanni Gallo	-	12
Liga Veneta–Lega Nord	Franco Manzato/ Roberto Ciambetti	11	10
National Alliance	Piergiorgio Cortelazzo	6	6
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	Onorio De Boni	5	4
Italy of Values	Damiano Rossato	-	2
North-East Project	Mariangelo Foggiato	2	1
For Veneto with Carraro	Marco Zabotti	2	1
Communist Refoundation Party	Pietrangelo Pettenò	1	1
Federation of the Greens	Gianfranco Bettin	1	1
New Italian Socialist Party	Nereo Laroni	1	1
Party of Italian Communists	Nicola Atalmi	1	1
Veneto for the European People's Party	Raffaele Grazia	-	1
Venetian Agreement	Carlo Covi	-	1
Venetian People's Movement	Francesco Piccolo	-	1
Forum of the Venetians	Diego Cancian	-	1
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy	Achille Variati	7	-
Democrats of the Left	Giovanni Gallo	5	-
Italian Democratic Socialists	Carlo Covi	1	-
United for Carraro	Massimo Carraro	1	-

Sources: Regional Council of Veneto – Groups and Regional Council of Veneto – Members

Members by party of election

Forza Italia

• Raffaele Bazzoni
• Regina Bertipaglia
• Dario Bond
• Renato Chisso
• Giancarlo Conta
• Barbara Degani (resigned 30 June 2009)
• Giuliana Fontanella
• Elisabetta Gardini (resigned 13 July 2006)
• Giancarlo Galan
• Fabio Gava (resigned 24 June 2008)
• Amedeo Gerolimetto (installed 26 June 2008)
• Raffaele Grazia (switched to "Veneto for EPP")
• Renzo Marangon
• Renato Martin (installed 15 July 2009)
• Vittoriano Mazzon (installed 15 July 2009)
• Leonardo Padrin (installed 17 March 2006)
• Clodovaldo Ruffato
• Remo Sernagiotto
• Carlo Alberto Tesserin
• Tiziano Zigiotto

Liga Veneta–Lega Nord

• Andrea Astolfi (resigned 27 July 2006)
• Luca Baggio (installed 23 July 2009)
• Mara Bizzotto (installed 13 July 2006, resigned 3 August 2009)
• Gianpaolo Bottacin (resigned 10 July 2009)
• Federico Caner
• Vittorino Cenci (installed 28 June 2007)
• Roberto Ciambetti
• Maurizio Conte
• Gianantonio Da Re (resigned 20 July 2009)
• Marino Finozzi
• Franco Manzato
• Claudio Meggiolaro (installed 2 September 2009)
• Sandro Sandri (resigned 7 August 2006)
• Daniele Stival
• Flavio Tosi (resigned 25 June 2007)
• Emilio Zamboni (installed 14 September 2006)

Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy

(The group was merged into "The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party")

• Giuseppe Berlato Sella
• Diego Bottacin
• Gustavo Franchetto (switched to "Italy of Values")
• Franco Frigo
• Igino Michieletto
• Guido Trento
• Achille Variati (resigned 6 May 2008)

National Alliance

• Maria Luisa Coppola
• Piergiorgio Cortelazzo
• Elena Donazzan
• Massimo Giorgetti
• Moreno Teso
• Raffaele Zanon

Union of Christian and Centre Democrats

• Iles Braghetto (installed 14 September 2006, resigned 10 October 2006)
• Onorio De Boni
• Antonio De Poli (resigned 20 July 2006)
• Flavio Frasson (installed 25 October 2006)
• Francesco Piccolo (switched to the "Venetian People's Movement")
• Flavio Silvestrin
• Stefano Valdegamberi

Democrats of the Left

(The group was merged into "The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party")

• Carlo Alberto Azzi
• Franco Bonfante
• Giovanni Gallo
• Giampietro Marchese
• Claudio Rizzato (installed 4 June 2008)
• Luciano Tiozzo

North-East Project

• Diego Cancian (switched to the "Forum of the Venetians")
• Mariangelo Foggiato

For Veneto with Carraro

• Andrea Causin (switched to "Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy")
• Marco Zabotti

United for Carraro

• Massimo Carraro (resigned 7 September 2006)

Communist Refoundation Party

• Pietrangelo Pettenò

Federation of the Greens

• Gianfranco Bettin

New Italian Socialist Party

• Nereo Laroni

Italian Democratic Socialists

• Carlo Covi (switched to "Venetian Agreement")

Party of Italian Communists

• Nicola Atalmi

Italy of Values

• Damiano Rossato (installed 14 September 2006)

Election

Main article: Venetian regional election, 2005

The regional election that produced the VIII Legislature took place on 3-4 April 2005. Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time President of the Region, but the support for him was diminished by the presence of a third candidate, Giorgio Panto, who picked votes both from the centre-right camp and from the Ventist one, and of a fourth candidate of the far-right.

Forza Italia suffered a decline in term of votes and regional deputies, although remaining the largest party in the Council and also in the Region as a whole (the Olive Tree was only an electoral alliance at the time and the three parties which were part of it formed separate groups in the Council), while Venetist parties had a very good result: the combined score of Liga Veneta (14.7%), North-East Project (5.4%) and Liga Fronte Veneto (1.2%) was 21.3%, up from the 15.6% of 2000 (Liga Veneta 12.0%, Veneti d'Europa 2.4% and Fronte Marco Polo 1.2%.

e • d 

Candidates	Regional lists			Provincial lists					Total
	votes	%	seats	Parties	votes	%	swing	seats	party	group
Giancarlo Galan	1,365,698	50.6	12	Forza Italia	523,176	22.7	-7.6	12	16	39
				Liga Veneta–Lega Nord	337,535	14.7	+2.7	7	11
				National Alliance	185,293	8.1	-1.7	4	6
				Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	147,790	6.4	+0.3	3	5
				New Italian Socialist Party	32,454	1.4	+0.7	1	1
Massimo Carraro	1,144,358	42.4	1	The Olive Tree Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Democrats of the Left Italian Democratic Socialists Independents	560,407	24.3	-2.8	13 7 5 1 -	14 7 5 1 1	19
				For Veneto with Carraro	107,014	4.6	new	2	2
				Communist Refoundation Party	80,350	3.5	+0.6	1	1
				Federation of the Greens	69,062	3.0	+0.7	1	1
				Party of Italian Communists	34,782	1.5	+0.5	1	1
				Italy of Values	29,570	1.3	new	-	-
				Liga Fronte Veneto	27,481	1.2	-2.4	-	-
				Consumers' List	15,667	0.7	new	-	-
				UDEUR Populars	6,246	0.3	new	-	-
Giorgio Panto	162,037	6.0	-	North-East Project	125,417	5.4	new	-	2	2
Roberto Bussinello	28,649	1.1	-	Social Alternative New Force Social Action	20,426	0.9	new	- - -	- - -	-
Total candidates	2,688,717	100.0	13	Total parties	2,306,814	100.0	=	47	60	60

Source: Regional Council of Veneto

References

1. ^ http://www.consiglio.regione.lombardia.it/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=PRI.1046.1&p_p_id=20&p_p_action=1&p_p_state=exclusive&p_p_col_id=null&p_p_col_pos=2&p_p_col_count=3&_20_struts_action=%2Fdocument_library%2Fget_file&_20_folderId=69&_20_name=l+cost+199_PDF.pdf