The Lazio regional election of 2018 took place in
Lazio
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, Italy, on 4 March 2018, concurrently with the
Italian general election and the
Lombard regional election.
The election was won by centre-left incumbent President
Nicola Zingaretti
Nicola Zingaretti (; born 11 October 1965) is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio and was Secretary of the Democratic Party from March 2019 until March 2021.
During the 1990s, he was a prominent European youth leader, servi ...
, with just under a third of the vote, over the centre-right one
Stefano Parisi
Stefano Parisi (Rome, 12 November 1956) is an Italian businessman and politician, General Secretary of Confindustria for 4 years and founder of Energies for Italy, a political party member of the centre-right coalition.
Biography Origins and pers ...
, who gain 31%, and the
Five Star Movement
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's candidate Roberta Lombardi with 27%.
Electoral system
The Regional Council is elected with a mixed system: 39 MPs are chosen with a form of
proportional representation
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using a
largest remainder method
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with
open lists and a 5%
threshold
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, while 11 MPs are elected with a
block voting system with
closed list
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s. One seat is for the elected president.
Parties and candidate
Opinion polls
Results
Aftermath
2018 motion of no confidence
On 1 December 2018, a motion of no confidence in the government of Nicola Zingaretti tabled by
centre-right coalition
The centre-right coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-destra) is an alliance of political parties in Italy, active—under several forms and names—since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party. Despite ...
was defeated 22 to 26, with one no-vote of Forza Italia and a few absent.
References
{{Elections in Lazio
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March 2018 events in Italy