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Lorenzo Fontana is the President of the Chamber
Government in the nascent stage
Vita gazette – The deputy of the League has obtained the third position of the state. Lorenzo Fontana was elected president of the House of Representatives in the 4th round. It is time to form the government—eyes on President Mattarella.
After the general elections held in Italy on 25 September, the structure of the parliament began to take shape. Yesterday Ignazio La Russa of the Fratelli d’Italia party, led by Giorgia Meloni, was elected President of the Senate of the Republic, the upper house of parliament. Today Lorenz was elected president of the Chamber for the 19th legislature of the Italian Republic.
Who is Lorenzo Fontana
The deputy of the Northern League, Lorenzo Fontana, was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies for the 19th legislature. This is the second youngest Speaker of the House in republican history after Irene Pivetti, elected in 1994, a few days before she turned 31. Fontana collected 222 votes, 15 fewer than were in the centre-right abacus but enough to achieve an absolute majority of votes.
He graduated in Political Science, Philosophy and History and was the former secretary of the Venetian Lega; he is considered the leading exponent of the r the party.he is considered the leading exponent of the party.
A first city councillor in Verona, his hometown, then MEP (with 52 thousand preferences), Lorenzo Fontana has been deputy secretary in charge of foreign affairs of the League since 2016; he entered Parliament in 2018 when he was elected deputy and became – as well as vice president of the Chamber – minister for the family and disabilities with Conte’s yellow-green government during which he then moved on to European Affairs.
In a conference of the Pro Vita Onlus association, he said that gay marriages and the theory of gender, on the one hand, and mass immigration on the other, “aim to erase our community and our traditions”, fearing the risk of “Obliteration of our people”.
He has always put his Catholic faith at the forefront of his political activity, in the front row against abortion, civil unions, the so-called gender theory, and marriage between homosexuals and defence of the Christian roots of Europe.
A name like Matteo Salvini argues that sanctions against Russia are not a rational way and that this method is against national interests.
Today, even before the start of the vote, a banner has appeared from the benches of the Democratic Party targeting Fontana.
Eyes on President Mattarella
After the heads of Parliament were also determined, eyes were turned to President Sergio Mattarella. Mattarella is expected to start the talks needed to form the government next week. The centre-right alliance, which emerged victorious in the elections, is expected to quickly create a government led by Giorgio Meloni, the head of Fratelli d’Italia, which received the most votes.
The composition of the new Parliament The design of the seats in the new Senate
What will the new Parliament look like
The centre-right won the elections, and Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy is the most-voted party in Italy. The majority of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, therefore, goes to the coalition of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega, Forza Italia and Noi Moderati: the total number of seats assigned to parties based on the victory of individual candidates in the single-member constituencies sees Fratelli Italy with 118 deputies and 66 senators, Lega with 65 deputies and 29 senators, the Pd 65 deputies and 37 senators, while the 5-star Movement 51 deputies and 28 senators. Forza Italia elects 45 deputies and 18 senators. Action and Italia Viva, 21 deputies and nine senators. Twelve deputies and four senators go to the Greens and the Italian Left. We Moderates elect seven deputies and two senators to the single-member seats, but not having exceeded the threshold, they do not obtain proportional seats. + Europe elects only two deputies, Ricardo Magi and Benedetto Della Vedova, who won in the single-member constituencies: in fact, Emma Bonino’s party has not reached the 3 per cent barrier necessary for the allocation of seats. Cateno De Luca’s party instead gets two seats in Sicily. Civic commitment gets a seat with Bruno Tabacci’s victory in Milan. Finally, three deputies and two senators belong to linguistic minorities.
The new composition of the Chamber and Senate
The new Chamber of Deputies will be characterized by the majority of the Center-right, with 235 seats out of 400. In the end, the coalition of Meloni, Salvini and Berlusconi could not reach two-thirds of the seats necessary for the constitutional changes. The centre-left will have 79 seats, while Movimento 5 Stelle and Action / Italia Viva, respectively 51 and 21.
In the Senate, however, the centre-right will be able to count on 115 seats out of 200. The centre-left stops at 41 (with + Europe excluded), while the 5 Star Movement will have 28 seats. Action and Italia viva instead will have nine tails.