Camera dei deputati

Chamber of Deputies Camera dei deputati
Type
Type	Lower house of the Parliament of Italy
Leadership
President of the Chamber	Laura Boldrini, SEL Since 16 March 2013
Structure
Seats	630
Political groups	Government (394)      PD 284      MDP 38      AP 26      CI 16      Demo.S–CD 14      Mixed Group 16 Opposition Parties (236)      M5S 91      FI 50      LN 19      SC–ALA 16      SI 13      FdI 11      Mixed Group 36
Elections
Voting system	Partially-open list proportional representation with majority bonus (current house was elected under a semi-proportional system)
Last election	24–25 February 2013
Next election	2018 or earlier
Meeting place
Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome
Website
http://en.camera.it/ and http://www.camera.it/leg17/46

Government (394)

Opposition Parties (236)

The Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei deputati, Italian pronunciation: ['kamera 'dei depu'ta:ti]) is a house of the bicameral Parliament of Italy (the other being the Senate of the Republic). The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical functions, but do so separately. Pursuant to article 56 of the Italian Constitution, the Chamber of Deputies has 630 seats, of which 618 are elected from Italian constituencies, and 12 from Italian citizens living abroad. Deputies are styled The Honourable (Italian: Onorevole) and meet at Palazzo Montecitorio. The Chamber and the parliamentary system of the Italian Republic and under the previous Kingdom of Italy is a continuation of the traditions and procedures of the Parliament and Chamber of Deputies as established under King Charles Albert, (1798-1849), during the Revolutions of 1848, and his son Victor Emmanuel II, (1820-1878) of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont which led in the "Italian unification 'Risorgimento' movement" of the 1850s and 1860s, under the leadership of then Prime Minister, Count Camillo Benso of Cavour ("Count Cavour").