The Politics of Abruzzo (Abruzzo, 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 8, including a Vice President (Vicepresidente) and an undersecretary (Sottosegretario).^[1]

List of presidents

Main article: List of presidents of Abruzzo

Elected by the Regional Council (1970–1995)

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	Name	Term of office		Political party	Legislature
1	Ugo Crescenzi	3 September 1970	23 March 1972	DC	I (1970)
2	Giustino De Cecco	23 March 1972	16 July 1973	DC
(1)	Ugo Crescenzi	16 July 1973	31 May 1974	DC
(2)	Giustino De Cecco	31 May 1974	8 October 1975	DC
3	Felice Spadaccini	8 October 1975	1 March 1977	DC	II (1975)
4	Romeo Riciuti	1 March 1977	8 October 1980	DC
		8 October 1980	30 November 1981		III (1980)
5	Anna Nena D'Antonio	30 November 1981	13 May 1983	DC
(3)	Felice Spadaccini	13 May 1983	1 October 1985	DC
6	Emilio Mattucci	1 October 1985	1 August 1990	DC	IV (1985)
7	Rocco Salini	1 August 1990	13 October 1992	DC	V (1990)
8	Vincenzo Del Colle	13 October 1992	29 May 1995	DC

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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
9		Antonio Falconio (1938–2021)	29 May 1995	18 May 2000	4 years, 355 days		Italian People's Party	PDS–PRC–PPI–PdD–FdV	VI (1995)
10		Giovanni Pace (1933–2018)	18 May 2000	22 April 2005	4 years, 339 days		National Alliance	FI–AN–CDC–CDU	VII (2000)
11		Ottaviano Del Turco (1944– )	22 April 2005	13 July 2008[lower-alpha 1]	3 years, 82 days		Italian Democratic Socialists/ Democratic Party	DS–DL–SDI–PRC–UDEUR–PdCI–FdV	VIII (2005)
12		Giovanni Chiodi (1961– )	3 January 2009	10 June 2014	5 years, 158 days		The People of Freedom	PdL–MpA	IX (2008)
13		Luciano D'Alfonso (1965– )	10 June 2014	10 August 2018[lower-alpha 2]	4 years, 61 days		Democratic Party	PD–CD–SEL–IdV	X (2014)
12		Marco Marsilio (1968– )	23 February 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 76 days		Brothers of Italy	Lega–FI–FdI–AP–UDC	XI (2019)
			TBD					FdI–FI–Lega–NM	XII (2024)

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The Regional Council of Abruzzo (Consiglio Regionale dell'Abruzzo) 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]