The Politics of Liguria, Italy takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.

The Regional Government (Giunta Regionale) is presided by the President of the Region (Presidente della Regione), who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers (Assessori), who are currently 11, including a Vice President.^[1]

List of presidents

Main article: List of presidents of Liguria

Presidents elected by the Regional Council (1970–1995)

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#	Name	Term of office		Political party	Legislature
1	Gianni Dagnino	15 September 1970	14 April 1975	DC	I (1970)
2	Giorgio Luciano Verda	14 April 1975	29 July 1975	DC
3	Angelo Carossino	29 July 1975	4 July 1979	PCI	II (1975)
4	Armando Magliotto	4 July 1979	28 October 1980	PCI
5	Giovanni Persico	28 October 1980	27 September 1981	PRI	III (1980)
6	Alberto Teardo	27 September 1981	25 May 1983	PSI
7	Rinaldo Magnani	25 May 1983	9 October 1985	PSI
		9 October 1985	14 March 1990		IV (1985)
8	Renzo Muratore	14 March 1990	28 September 1990	PSI
9	Giacomo Gualco	28 September 1990	14 January 1992	DC	V (1990)
10	Edmondo Ferrero	14 January 1992	20 July 1994	DC
11	Giancarlo Mori	20 July 1994	6 June 1995	PPI

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Directly-elected presidents (since 1995)

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N.	Portrait	President	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Party		Composition	Legislature
11		Giancarlo Mori (1938–2019)	6 June 1995	12 May 2000	4 years, 332 days		Italian People's Party	PDS–PPI–PdD–FdV	VI (1995)
12		Sandro Biasotti (1948– )	12 May 2000	14 April 2005	4 years, 337 days		Forza Italia	FI–AN–LN–CDC	VII (2000)
13		Claudio Burlando (1954– )	14 April 2005	7 April 2010	10 years, 58 days		Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party	Ulivo/PD–PRC–PdCI–FdV–IdV	VIII (2005)
			7 April 2010	11 June 2015				PD–IdV–UDC–FdS–SEL–FdV	IX (2010)
14		Giovanni Toti (1968– )	11 June 2015	12 October 2020	8 years, 327 days		Forza Italia	LN–FI–FdI	X (2015)
			12 October 2020	Incumbent			Cambiamo!	C!–LN–FdI–FI	XI (2020)

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The Regional Council of Liguria (Consiglio Regionale della Liguria) is composed of 40 members. 32 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 8 councillors (elected in bloc) come from a "regional list", including the President-elect. One seat is reserved for the candidate who comes second. If a coalition wins more than 50% of the total seats in the Council with PR, only 4 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 36. If the winning coalition receives less than 40% of votes special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.^[2]

The Council is elected for a five-year term, but, if the President suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, under the simul stabunt, simul cadent clause introduced in 1999 (literally they will stand together or they will fall together), also the Council is dissolved and a snap election is called.^[3]