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The Regional Council of Veneto (''Consiglio Regionale del Veneto'') is the regional Parliament of Veneto . It was first elected in 1970 , when the Ordinary Regions were insituted, on the basis of the Constitution Of Italy of 1948 . COMPOSITION The Regional Council of Veneto is composed of 60 members, of which 47 are elected in provincial constituencies with Proportional Representation , 12 from the so-called "regional list" of the elected President and the last one is for the candidate for President who comes second, who usually becames the leader of the opposition in the Council. The Council is elected every five years, but, if the President suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, also the Council will be dissolved and there will be fresh elections. Currently the President of the Council is Marino Finozzi . Current composition See Also: Members of the Regional Council of Veneto, 2005-2010 PRESIDENTS ELECTIONS See Also: Elections in Veneto Last regional election See Also: Venetian regional election, 2005 The last regional election took place on 3 - 4 March , 2005 . Giancarlo Galan ( Forza Italia , House Of Freedoms ) was re-elected for the third time President of the Region, but the support for him was diminished by the presence of a third candidate, Giorgio Panto , who picked votes both from the centre-right camp and from the Ventist one, and of a fourth candidate of the far-right. However Forza Italia remained the strongest party in the Council and also in the Region as a whole, indeed the Olive Tree was only an electoral alliance at the time and the three parties which were part of it formed separate groups in the Council. The (14.7%), North-East Project (5.4%) and Liga Fronte Veneto (1.2%) was 21.3%, up from the 15.6% of 2000 (Liga Veneta 12.0%, Veneti D'Europa 2.4% and Fronte Marco Polo 1.2%. In February 2007 , the members of Democracy Is Freedom – Daisy (7 councillors) and the Democrats Of The Left (5 councillors) formed a joint-group, the "Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party", named after the future Italian Democratic Party . It is the first time in Italy that the name of the future party is used in an institutional contest. Past regional elections
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