Legislature XIV of Italy


The Legislature XIV of Italy started on 30 May 2001 and ended on 27 April 2006. Its composition resulted from the general election of 13 May 2001. The election was called by President Ciampi, after he dissolved the houses of Parliament on 8 March 2001. The legislature ended after its natural course of five years, soon after the houses were dissolved again by Ciampi on 11 February 2006.
The election leading to the composition of this legislature was characterized by the use of decoy lists by both major coalitions, in order to "de facto" turn the additional member system implemented by the electoral law into a parallel voting system. In the case of the House of Freedoms, this tactic was so effective that Forza Italia did not have enough candidates for the seats that had won, missing out on 12 seats.

Government

Chamber of Deputies

The number of elected deputies was 613. Although the total number of seats was of 630, at the start of the legislation it was not possible to assign the remaining 17 seats because of missing candidates in the electoral lists. Some of these seats were assigned later during the legislature.
The number of elected senators was 315. At the beginning of the legislature there were nine life senators. After the death of Leone, Bo, Bobbio, Agnelli, De Martino and Taviani, and the nomination of the new life senators Rita Levi-Montalcini, Emilio Colombo, Mario Luzi, Giorgio Napolitano and Sergio Pininfarina, the total number of senators at the end of the legislature was of 320.