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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.

Currently the President of the Council is Marino Finozzi .


COMPOSITION



Strength of political groups



Members by party of election



Forza Italia



Liga Veneta–Lega Nord



Democracy is Freedom – Daisy

(The group merged in "Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party")


National Alliance



Union of Christian and Centre Democrats



Democrats of the Left

(The group merged in "Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party")


North-East Project



For Veneto with Carraro



United for Carraro



Communist Refoundation Party



Federation of the Greens



New Italian Socialist Party



Italian Democratic Socialists



Party of Italian Communists



Italy of Values



ELECTIONS

In the election taken 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.