Snap general elections were held in
San Marino on 9 November 2008. They were called after the collapse of the centre-left government which had won the previous
2006 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 2006.
* Elections in 2006
* Electoral calendar 2006
* 2006 Acehnese regional election
* 2006 American Samoan legislative election
* 2006 Bahraini parliamentary election
* 2006 Costa Rican presidenti ...
.
In June 2008, due to disagreements within the coalition partners, the
Party of Socialists and Democrats (PSD),
Popular Alliance (AP) and
United Left (SU), AP left the coalition and the cabinet fell down. The PSD tried to form a narrow-majority coalition with SU and
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(SpL), but two dissenting members of PSD left their party and formed
Arengo and Freedom
Arengo and Freedom ( it, Arengo e Libertà, AL) was a liberal and social liberal political party in San Marino.
It was founded in September 2008 by two splinters from the Party of Socialists and Democrats, Fabio Berardi and Nadia Ottaviani, both ...
(AL), leaving the proposed coalition without a majority in Parliament.
Due to the new electoral law passed earlier in 2008 which introduced a number of changes (an electoral threshold of 3.5% and a majority premium for the winning coalition, on the example of the electoral system for the
Italian cities
), the election was contested by two major coalitions:
Pact for San Marino
Pact for San Marino ( it, Patto per San Marino) was a centrist coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino.
It was composed of four lists for a total of eight parties:
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(centre-right) and
Reforms and Freedom (centre-left).
Electoral system
Voters had to be citizens of San Marino and at least 18 years old.
Coalitions and parties
Due to the new electoral law, Sammarinese political parties are organized in two major coalitions:
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Pact for San Marino
Pact for San Marino ( it, Patto per San Marino) was a centrist coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino.
It was composed of four lists for a total of eight parties:
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(''Patto per San Marino'')
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Reforms and Freedom (''Riforme e Libertà'')
Pact for San Marino
Reforms and Freedom
Results
References
{{Sammarinese elections
General elections in San Marino
San Marino
General election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
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