International Business Times
| Apr 24, 2013
After two months of damaging post-election deadlock, Italy appears set to get a prime minister and a government. President Georgio Napolitano has asked center-left lawmaker Enrico Letta to serve as prime minister and to form a coalition gove...
Euronews
| Mar 7, 2013
A Milan court has sentenced Silvio Berlusconi to a year in jail for his role in a wiretap scandal involving a political rival, but the conviction won't take him off the political scene: The former Italian PM will remain free and able to take a rol...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Feb 26, 2013
Who's laughing now? Italy's parliamentary election has ended in a stalemate, which sent markets plunging this morning. Pier Luigi Bersani's center-left bloc won the lower house, but not the Senate, and nipping at his party's heels is for...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Feb 24, 2013
Three women reportedly from the feminist group "Femen" attempt to disrupt former premier Silvio Berlusconi as he arrives to vote in the Italian elections on Sunday. Berlusconi is seeking to gain a position in the Italian parliament after resigning...
Euronews
| Feb 23, 2013
Italians are preparing to head to the polls on February 24-25 in a parliamentary election that is too close to call. With a ban in Italy on publishing polls during the two weeks before the vote, an air of uncertainty hangs over a campaign that has...
Euronews
| Feb 4, 2013
With just three weeks to go until Italy's general election, surprise comeback king Silvio Berlusconi is surging in the polls along with popular comedian activist Beppe Grillo, who has been compared to American political critic Michael Moore. The D...
Euronews
| Jan 7, 2013
Silvio Berlusconi will not pursue his ambition to return to the office of prime minister. That's the price of a deal he has finally secured with the Northern League in a bid to strengthen Italy's center-right ahead of next months election. But the...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 28, 2012
Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced he will lead a centrist coalition in the upcoming elections. The technocrat leader say his bid to be prime minister is risky and may fail, but he wants to make a difference in the live...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 22, 2012
Italian politics took another dramatic turn as Prime Minister Mario Monti announced he will not run for election, two days after being forced to resign. Monti was appointed to save Italy from a financial crisis a year ago, but had trouble enacting...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 11, 2012
Italians are scratching their heads, trying to figure out how a man who left politics a year ago with his tail between his legs is back. Prime Minister Mario Monti is resigning, and Berlusconi is drooling over his old job again, giving the stock m...
The Prime Minister of Italy, officially the President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic is the head of government of the Italian Republic.
While the office is similar to those in most other parliamentary systems, the Italian prime minister has less authority than some of his counterparts. The prime minister is not authorized to request the dissolution of the Parliament of Italy or to dismiss ministers, and must receive a vote of approval from the Council of Ministers—which holds effective executive power—to execute most political activities.
The office was established by Articles 92 through to 96 of the current Constitution of Italy. The prime minister is appointed by the President of the Republic after each general election. Commonly referred to in Italy as premier, the right title of the office holder is Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, or just Presidente del Consiglio. The formal Italian order of precedence lists the office as being ceremonially the fourth most important Italian state office.
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