Thematic studies – Politics and political science in the shadow of war

The 2022 Italian election under the microscope

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2023-12-22
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Tanács-Mandák, F. (2023). The 2022 Italian election under the microscope. CROSS-SECTIONS Social Science Journal, 12(2), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.18392/metsz/2023/2/4
Abstract

The 2022 parliamentary elections marked a turning point for the Italian political system in many ways. As a result of the measures approved and introduced over the past almost ten years to change the electoral system (electoral reforms, decisions of the Constitutional Court, constitutional amendments, parliamentary reforms, etc.), Italian voters had the opportunity to elect the new members of both chambers of the parliament under the same electoral system, for the first time in the Republican era. The purpose of the article is to present the steps leading to this historic moment by analysing in detail the different measures affecting the electoral system and their impact. The paper then describes the electoral results and explains the processes leading to the vast victory of Italy’s first female Prime Minister, with a particular focus on the return to the bipolar logic favoured by the electoral system following the release of the three-pole system in 2013.