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At stake in this election:

  • 60 seats in the Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale)

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: Co-Chiefs of Sate Captain Regent Gian Franco TERENZI and Captain Regent Loris FRANCINI *
  • Head of Government: Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs Fabio BERARDI
  • Assembly: San Marino has a unicameral Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale) with 60 seats.

* The Co-Chiefs of State (captains regent) are elected by the Great and General Council for a six-month term.

Description of electoral system:

  • The Co-Chiefs of Sate is elected .
  • In the Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale) 60 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.

Main parties in the electoral race:

  • Party: Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party / Partito Democratico Cristiano Sanmarinese (PDCS)
    Leader: Pier Marino MENICUCCI
    Seats won in this election: 21
    Seats won in last election: 25
  • Party: Party of Socialists and Democrats / Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici (PSD)
    Leader: Morganti Giuseppe MARIA
    Seats won in this election: 20
    Seats won in last election: 27
  • Party: Popular Alliance / Alleanza Popolare (AP)
    Leader: Roberto GIORGETTI
    Seats won in this election: 7
    Seats won in last election: 5
  • Party: United Left / Sinistra Unita (SU)
    Leader: N/A
    Seats won in this election: 5
    Seats won in last election: 2
  • Party: New Socialist Party / Nuovo Partido Socialista (NPS)
    Leader: Antonio VOLPINARI
    Seats won in this election: 3
    Seats won in last election: N/A
  • Party: We Sammarinese / Noi Sammarinesi (NS)
    Leader: N/A
    Seats won in this election: 1
    Seats won in last election: N/A
  • Party: Sammarinese People / Popolari Sammarinesi (POPOLARI)
    Leader: Romeo MORRI
    Seats won in this election: 1
    Seats won in last election: N/A
  • Party: Sammarinese National Alliance / Alleanza Nationale Sanmarinese (ANS)
    Leader: Vittorio Ennio PELLANDRA
    Seats won in this election: 1
    Seats won in last election: 1
  • Party: Sammarinese for Freedom / Sammarinesi per la Libertà (SpL)
    Leader: Giuseppe ROSSI
    Seats won in this election: 1
    Seats won in last election: N/A

Last Parliamentary election:

  • The last parliamentary election was held on June 10, 2001.

Population and number of registered voters:

  • Population: 29,251 (July 2006 est.)
  • Registered Voters: 31,759 ( 2006 )

Last Updated on 02/14/2006

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