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The next Italian general election is due to be held no later than 23 May 2018 and will be called following the dissolution or expiry of the term started on 29 April 2013. Under the current Constitution, voters would elect 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 315 members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th Parliament, but a constitutional reform proposed by the government would see the Senate replaced in this election with an indirectly elected body, composed of 100 members: 95 selected from regional councils and 5 appointed by the President. This reform has been already passed by the Chamber and Senate, but will require a second compliant passage in both and, possibly, a referendum to enter into effect.〔http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49d553ec-71e3-11e5-9b9e-690fdae72044.html#axzz3pqfrJMXD〕〔http://www.italy24.ilsole24ore.com/art/politics/2015-10-13/via-libera-riforma-senato-130528.php?uuid=ACx78JFB〕 ==Background== At the 2013 general election neither of the two main coalitions, the centre-right led by Silvio Berlusconi and the centre-left led by Pier Luigi Bersani, won an outright majority in Parliament, partly due to the strong showing by the Five Star Movement (M5S). After a failed attempt by Bersani, then-secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), to form a government, President Giorgio Napolitano gave Enrico Letta, Bersani's deputy, the task of forming a grand coalition government. Letta eventually formed a cabinet composed of members of the PD, Berlusconi's The People of Freedom (PdL) – replaced by the New Centre-Right (NCD) in November 2013 –, Civic Choice (SC), the Union of the Centre (UdC), one member of the Italian Radicals and three independents. Following the election of Matteo Renzi as the new PD secretary in December 2013, there were persistent leadership tensions culminating in Letta's resignation as Prime Minister in February 2014. Renzi subsequently formed a cabinet composed of the same parties who had lately supported Letta, but in a new fashion The new Prime Minister, who had a strong mandate from his party, was reinforced by two key events: the PD's strong showing in the European Parliament elections three months later and the election of Sergio Mattarella, a fellow Democrat, in the 2015 presidential election. Since 2013 opinion polls (see below) have registered the PD's strength and a steady rise of the M5S and Lega Nord (LN) under Matteo Salvini, who launched a bid to become the leader of a much fractured centre-right, while emphasizing a decline of Forza Italia, the party which replaced the PdL and the virtual disappearance of SC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Next Italian general election」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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