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How Will Italy’s Congress be Divided After Meloni’s Landslide Victory?

¿Cómo quedará dividido el Congreso en Italia tras la aplastante victoria de Meloni?

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The results of Italy’s general election on Sunday will give the right-wing coalition, led by the Brothers of Italy (FdI), an absolute majority in both houses, the largest since 2008, but far short of the two-thirds of seats that would have allowed it to change the constitution without a referendum.

In the new parliament in which the reduction to 400 deputies and 200 senators will come into force, Giorgia Meloni’s FdI will increase its current number of 50 deputies to 185, while the allocation of seats under the proportional system is still being calculated.

In the Chamber of Deputies the right-wing coalition will control 237 seats out of 400 and in the Senate 112 out of 200, excluding the six senators for life.

In 2018 the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi won 344 MPs out of 630.

The Italian electoral system will allow Hermanos de Italia to have 118 MPs, the Liga will have 65, as will the Partido Demócrata (PD), despite having less than half of its votes, and Forza Italia will have 45 MPs, only six less than the Movimiento 5 Estrellas (M5S) despite also having half of its votes.

The centrists of Accion e Italia Viva will have 21 MPs and the majority is completed by 7 MPs from Nosotros Moderados, in the right-wing alliance and all elected in single-member constituencies as they did not pass the 3 per cent threshold.

The + Europa group will also have two MEPs, Benedetto Della Vedova and Riccardo Magi, while the historic politician Emma Bonino will be left out.

Bruno Tabacci will be the only MP from Compromiso Civico, Luigi Di Maio’s party, which is also out of Parliament.

In the Senate the right-wing coalition will have a more limited majority. Meloni’s party will have 66 senators, the Liga will have 29 and Forza Italia 18, while the opposition will consist of the PD (37), the M5S (28), the alliance between Accion e Italia Viva (9) senators, one less than the number needed to form an autonomous group, so they will have to move to the mixed group with representatives of the Italian Left and the Greens.

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