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, the legislative assembly of

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, during the X Legislature, thus the term started in June 2015, following the 2015 regional election, and ended in September 2020. Of the 51 members, 49 were elected in provincial constituencies by

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using the

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with a

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and

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s, while the remaining two were the elected

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and the candidate for President who came second. The winning coalition won a bonus of seats in order to make sure the elected President had a majority in the Council.

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(

Liga Veneta Liga Veneta ( vec, Łiga Vèneta; en, Venetian League; abbr. LV), whose complete name is ( en, Venetian League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist political party active in Veneto. The LV, whose ideology combines Venetian nationalism and su ...

–

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) was the President of the Council for the entire term, while

Luca Zaia Luca Zaia (born 27 March 1968) is a Venetian and Venetist politician, who has been President of Veneto since 2010. Prior to that, Zaia was President of the Province of Treviso from 1998 to 2005, Vice President of Veneto from 2005 to 2008 and M ...

(Liga Veneta–Lega Nord) served as

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at the head of his second government.

Composition

Strength of political groups

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Members by party of election

Zaia for President

* Fabiano Barbisan (switched to "Venetian Centre-Right" in May 2017, switched to the Mixed Group in February 2020) * Fabrizio Boron * Gianpaolo Bottacin * Sonia Brescacin *

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* Nicola Finco (switched to "Liga Veneta–Lega Nord" in June 2015) * Nazzareno Gerolimetto * Manuela Lanzarin * Gabriele Michieletto * Silvia Rizzotto * Luciano Sandonà * Stefano Valdegamberi (switched to the "Mixed Group" in March 2017) * Alberto Villanova

Liga Veneta–Lega Nord

* Riccardo Barbisan *

* Luca Coletto (resigned on 7 January 2019) * Maurizio Colman (installed on 19 June 2018) * Enrico Corsi (installed on 15 January 2019) *

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(resigned on 15 June 2018) * Gianluca Forcolin * Franco Gidoni * Roberto Marcato * Alessandro Montagnoli * Gianpiero Possamai * Alberto Semenzato *

Venetian Democratic Party

* Graziano Azzalin * Anna Maria Bigon (installed on 5 July 2019) * Stefano Fracasso *

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(resigned on 2 July 2019) * Bruno Pigozzo * Piero Ruzzante (switched to the "Mixed Group", as a member of Article One, in February 2017) * Orietta Salemi (switched to the "Mixed Group", as a member of

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, in July 2020) * Claudio Sinigaglia * Andrea Zanoni * Francesca Zottis

Five Star Movement

* Erika Baldin * Patrizia Bartelle (switched to the "Mixed Group" in November 2018) * Jacopo Berti * Manuel Brusco * Simone Scarabel

Forza Italia

(In March 2019 the group, no longer affiliated to Forza Italia, was re-named "More Italy!– I Love Veneto".) * Massimiliano Barison (switched to "Brothers of Italy" in January 2018, switched to " United Venetians" in June 2019) *

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(left the party by mid 2018) *

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(left the party by mid 2018)

Tosi List for Veneto

(In July 2017 the group, no longer connected to the Tosi List for Veneto, was re-named " Veneto for Autonomy".) * Andrea Bassi (switched to "Venetian Centre-Right" in May 2017, switched o "Brothers of Italy" in February 2020) *

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(switched to "Venetian Centre-Right" in May 2017, switched o "Brothers of Italy" in February 2020) *

Maurizio Conte Maurizio Conte (born 22 September 1964 in San Martino di Lupari) is a Venetist politician from Veneto, Italy. A member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord since 1993, Conte was first elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 2000. From 2001 to 2010 C ...

(member of Forza Italia since August 2017)

Moretti for President

(In July 2019 the group was re-named " Civic List for Veneto".) * Franco Ferrari * Cristina Guarda (switched to the "Mixed Group", as a member of the

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, in July 2020)

NCD–UdC–Popular Area

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(member of Forza Italia since November 2018)

Independence We Veneto

(Since March 2016 the group was named "We Are Veneto" and since February 2020 " Party of Venetians".) *

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Brothers of Italy

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(resigned on 31 January 2020) * Joe Formaggio (installed on 21 February 2020)

Civic Veneto

(Since July 2018 the group was named "United Venetians".) * Pietro Dalla Libera

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(Since December 2018 the group was named "Veneto Autonomous Heart".) * Giovanna Negro

Election

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was re-elected President by a landslide 50.1% of the vote. Liga Veneta, which ran an official party list and a list named after Zaia, was confirmed the largest in the region with 40.9%. The

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came second with 20.5% (combined result of official party list and

's personal list) and the

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third with 10.4%. The total score of Venetist parties was 54.3%, then a record.

References

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