List of parliamentary groups in Italy

This article contains a list of parliamentary groups in Italy.

In Italy’s bicameral Parliament, MPs are required to belong to a "parliamentary group" (gruppo parlamentare) in each chamber. Groups structure debate time, committee assignments and funding, and each chamber's rules set minimum sizes and special cases.

Rules and recent reforms

In July 2022 the Senate of the Republic adopted a comprehensive update of its Rules of Procedure to adapt to the reduced number of members (200 senators), including the six/nine-member thresholds and new anti-trasformismo measures linking groups to electoral symbols and components. In November 2022 the Chamber approved numerical adjustments (e.g. 14-member baseline from the XX legislature; 7-member components in the Mixed Group; 2 for minority-language components).

Minimum size and exceptions

• Chamber of Deputies: the general threshold is "20 deputies", but the Bureau may authorize a smaller group for parties that met specific nationwide ballot requirements; from the XX legislature the baseline threshold is scheduled to become "14 deputies" and the minimum for components inside the Mixed Group drops to "7" ("2'" for recognized linguistic minorities).
• Senate of the Republic: groups must have "at least six senators" at the start of a legislature and generally "nine" if formed later, with specific conditions and limits on splitting/merging; minority-language senators may form a group with "at least four".

Mixed Group and "components"

Members who do not join (or no longer belong to) another group sit in the "Mixed Group" (Gruppo misto), which may host smaller "components" representing parties or minority lists; components ensure a minimum of speaking time and organisational rights.

Current composition

This section reflects the official rosters published by the Chambers for the XIX legislature (from 13 October 2022).

Chamber of Deputies (XIX legislature)

Senate of the Republic (XIX legislature)

Parliamentary groups representing a political party

Parliamentary groups since 1946.

Active parliamentary groups

Defunct parliamentary groups

Notes

Parliamentary groups not representing a political party

Active parliamentary groups

Alongside single-party groups, some groups aggregate multiple parties/groups. As of today seven such groups are active.

• Mixed Group (Constituent Assembly / Chamber and Senate, 1946–present)
• For the Autonomies (Senate, 2001–present)
• Action – Italy Alive (Chamber and Senate, 2022–present)
• Greens and Left Alliance (Chamber, 2022–present)
• Us Moderates (Chamber, 2022–present)
• Civics of Italy–Us Moderates (Senate, 2022–present)

The Mixed Group has existed continuously since 1946 and hosts members and small components not enrolled in other groups. At the Senate, "For the Autonomies" has grouped senators from regionalist and recognized linguistic-minority parties (e.g. SVP, PATT) since 2001. Several current groups explicitly aggregate allied lists (e.g. Noi Moderati – MAIE – Centro Popolare at the Chamber; Civici d’Italia–UDC–Noi Moderati–MAIE–Centro Popolare at the Senate), per each Chamber’s rules on coalitions and symbols.

Defunct parliamentary groups

• Historical Right (Chamber, 1849–1913)
• Historical Left (Chamber, 1849–1913)
• Historical Far Left (Chamber, 1867–1904)
• Dissident Left (Chamber, 1877–1887)
• Autonomist Group (Constituent Assembly, 1946–1948)
• National Democratic Union (Constituent Assembly, 1946–1948)
• National Bloc of Freedom (Constituent Assembly, 1947–1948)
• National Union (Constituent Assembly, 1947–1948)
• Left Democratic Group (Senate, 1948–1953)
• Democratic Group – Independents of the Left (Senate, 1953–1958)
• Free–Social–Republican Group (Senate, 1953–1958)
• Italian Social Movement–PNM/PDI (1958–1963)
• Unified Socialist Party (Chamber and Senate, 1966–1969)
• Independent Left (Senate, 1968–1992; Chamber, 1983–1992)
• Italian Liberal Party–Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Senate, 1976–1979)
• European Federalist Group (Chamber, 1987–1994)
• Ecologist European Federalist Group (Senate, 1987–1992)
• Proletarian Democracy–Communists (Chamber, 1991–1992)
• Greens–The Network (Senate, 1992–1996)
• Progressives (Chamber and Senate, 1994–1996)
• Democratic Left (Senate, 1994–1996)
• The Democrats (Chamber, 1995)
• The Olive Tree (Chamber and Senate, 2006–2007)
• Socialists and Radicals – Rose in the Fist (Chamber, 2006–2008)
• Greens–Italian Communists (Senate, 2006–2008)
• Christian Democracy for the Autonomies–New Italian Socialist Party (Chamber, 2006–2008)
• Christian Democracy for the Autonomies–Movement for Autonomy (Senate, 2006–2008)
• People and Territory (Chamber, 2011–2013)
• National Cohesion (Senate, 2011–2013)
• For the Third Pole (Senate, 2011–2013)
• For Italy (Chamber, 2013–2014; Senate 2013–2014)
• For Italy–Democratic Centre (Chamber, 2014–2016)
• For Italy–Solidary Democracy (Chamber, 2016–2018)
• Great Autonomies and Freedom (Senate, 2013–2018)
• Popular Area (Senate, 2014–2017)
• Civics and Innovators (Chamber, 2016–2018)
• Federation of Freedom (Senate, 2017–2018)
• Free and Equal (Chamber, 2018–2022)
• Europeanists–MAIE–CD (Senate, 2021)
• Constitution, Environment, Labour–PC–IdV (Senate, 2022)

See also

• List of political parties in Italy
• List of political coalitions in Italy

References