The Politics of Lazio, 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 16, including a vice president.^[1]

List of presidents

Main article: List of presidents of Lazio

Presidents elected by the Regional Council (1970–1995)

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N.	Name	Term of office		Political party	Legislature
1	Girolamo Mechelli	1 September 1970	17 January 1972	Christian Democracy	I (1970)
2	Luigi Cipriani	17 January 1972	23 October 1973	Christian Democracy
3	Rinaldo Santini	23 October 1973	22 September 1975	Christian Democracy
4	Roberto Palleschi	22 September 1975	23 March 1976	Italian Socialist Party	II (1975)
5	Maurizio Ferrara	23 March 1976	5 August 1977	Italian Communist Party
6	Giulio Santarelli	5 August 1977	8 August 1980	Italian Socialist Party
		8 August 1980	24 March 1983		III (1980)
7	Bruno Landi	24 March 1983	18 April 1984	Italian Socialist Party
8	Gabriele Panizzi	18 April 1984	31 July 1985	Italian Socialist Party
9	Sebastiano Montali	31 July 1985	17 May 1987	Italian Socialist Party	IV (1985)
(7)	Bruno Landi	17 May 1987	27 July 1990	Italian Socialist Party
10	Rodolfo Gigli	27 July 1990	5 August 1992	Christian Democracy	V (1990)
11	Giorgio Pasetto	5 August 1992	21 February 1994	Christian Democracy
12	Carlo Proietti	21 February 1994	18 January 1995	Italian Socialist Party
13	Arturo Osio	18 January 1995	19 May 1995	Federation of the Greens

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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
14		Piero Badaloni (1946– )	19 May 1995	12 May 2000	4 years, 359 days		Independent / The Democrats	The Olive Tree PDS–PRC–PPI–FdV–PRI	VI (1995)
15		Francesco Storace (1959– )	12 May 2000	2 May 2005	4 years, 355 days		National Alliance	House of Freedoms AN–FI–CCD–CDU	VII (2000)
16		Piero Marrazzo (1958– )	2 May 2005	27 October 2009[lower-alpha 1]	4 years, 178 days		Independent / Democratic Party	The Union Ulivo/PD–PRC–FdV–PdCI–UDEUR–IdV	VIII (2005)
17		Renata Polverini (1962– )	16 April 2010	12 March 2013[lower-alpha 2]	2 years, 330 days		The People of Freedom	LP–PdL–UdC–LD	IX (2010)
18		Nicola Zingaretti (1965– )	12 March 2013	19 March 2018	9 years, 243 days		Democratic Party	Italy. Common Good PD–SEL–PSI–CD	X (2013)
			19 March 2018	10 November 2022[lower-alpha 3]				PD–LeU–+Eu–CS–M5S[lower-alpha 4]	XI (2018)
19		Francesco Rocca (1965– )	2 March 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 54 days		Independent (close to FdI)	FdI–League–FI–UdC	XII (2023)

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1. Resigned after a sex scandal. His deputy Esterino Montino (PD) held the office till a new regional election was called.
2. Resigned on 27 September 2012 after a corruption scandal. She remained in office as acting President till a new regional election was called.
3. Resigned after being elected to the Chamber of Deputies. His deputy Daniele Leodori (PD) held the office till the following regional election.
4. Since 2021.

The Regional Council of Lazio (Consiglio Regionale del Lazio) is composed of 51 members, of which 39 are elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation, 10 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 becomes the leader of the opposition in the council.

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 vel simul cadent clause (introduced in 1999), also the council will be dissolved and there will be a fresh election.^[2]