City Council of Rome

Capitoline Assembly

*Assemblea Capitolina*
Capitoline Assembly ; Assemblea Capitolina
History
Founded	29 November 1870
Leadership
President	Svetlana Celli, PD ; since 4 November 2021
Mayor	Roberto Gualtieri, PD ; since 21 October 2021
Structure
Seats	48
Political groups	; Mayoral majority (29) PD (18); Gualtieri List (5); SCE (2); Future Rome (2); DemoS (1); EV (1); Opposition (19) Calenda List (5); M5S (4); Raggi List (1); FI-UDC (1); Lega (2); FdI (5);
Elections
Last election	3-4 October 2021
Next election	2026
Meeting place
	Palazzo Senatorio
Website
	www.comune.roma.it/web/it/assemblea-capitolina.page

The City Council of Rome or Capitoline Assembly (Italian: Assemblea Capitolina) is the top tier legislative body of Rome, Italy. It consists of the directly elected mayor of Rome and of an elected 48-member assembly. It represents a legislative body which can also control the mayor's policy guidelines and be able to enforce their resignation by a motion of no confidence.

The city council is elected for a five-year term and is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of seats for each party is determined by a mechanism of majority bonus.

The city council meets at Palazzo Senatorio, seated in Piazza del Campidoglio.

Composition

The political system of the Comuni of Italy was changed in 1993, when a semi-presidential system for the mayoral election was introduced. If until that year the council was elected under a pure proportional system and the council had the power to elect and dismiss the mayor of Rome, since 1993 the mayor and the council are jointly elected by citizens, with an electoral law that assures to the elected mayor a political majority in the council.

Under this system, the election of the mayor is prior over the election of the council. Voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition and this gives a result whereby the winning candidate is able to claim majority support in the new council. The candidate who is elected mayor has always a majority of 62% of seats (29 seats) in the city council, which will support him during his term. The seats for each party of the coalition which wins the majority is determined proportionally.

In this type of system, the council is generally elected for a five-year term, but, if the mayor suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, under the simul stabunt, simul cadent clause introduced in 1993 (literally they will stand together or they will fall together), also the Council is dissolved and a snap election is called.

The City Committee (Italian: giunta comunale), the executive body of the city, chosen and presided directly by the mayor, is generally composed by members of the city council, which lost their membership into the assembly.

Functions

The council acts as the supreme legislative body of the city. It is convened and chaired by a speaker (president del consiglio comunale) appointed by the council itself.

The council can decide over programs and public works projects, institution and system of taxes, the general rules for the use of goods and services, forecasting and reporting financial statements. Resolution basic acts attributed by law to its competence are the municipal statute, the regulations, the general criteria on the structure of offices and services.

Speakers

This is a list of the speakers (Italian: presidenti del consiglio comunale) of the city council since the 1993 electoral reform:

Name		Period		Legislature start date
	Teodoro Buontempo (MSI)	7 December 1993	12 September 1994	5 December 1993
	Enrico Gasbarra (PDS)	12 September 1994	25 March 1997
	Luisa Laurelli (PDS)	7 April 1997	17 November 1997
	Luisa Laurelli (PDS)	11 December 1997	8 January 2001	17 November 1997
Council suspended (8 January 2001 – 1 June 2001)
	Giuseppe Mannino (Ind)	26 June 2001	1 June 2006	1 June 2001
	Mirko Coratti (Ind)	3 July 2006	13 February 2008	1 June 2006
Council suspended (13 February 2008 – 28 April 2008)
	Marco Pomarici (PdL)	26 May 2008	12 June 2013	28 April 2008
	Mirko Coratti (PD)	1 July 2013	2 December 2014	12 June 2013
	Valeria Baglio (PD)	2 December 2014	31 October 2015	12 June 2013
Council suspended (31 October 2015 – 22 June 2016)
	Marcello De Vito (M5S)	7 July 2016	21 October 2021	22 June 2016
	Svetlana Celli (PD)	4 November 2021	Incumbent	21 October 2021

Political composition

Historical composition

Election	DC	PCI	PSI	PLI	PRI	PSDI	MSI	UQ	Monarchists	Others
Election
10 November 1946	17	30		4	6	0	0	17	5	1
12 October 1947	27	28		1	5	0	3	8	4	4
25 May 1952	39	16		6	3	4	8	0	3	1
27 May 1956	27	20	9	3	1	3	10	0	2	1
6 November 1960	28	19	11	3	1	3	12	0	3	0
10 June 1962	24	19	10	6	1	5	13	0	2	0
12 June 1966	26	21	6	9	1	8	7	0	1	1
13 June 1971	24	21	7	3	3	8	13	0	0	1
20 June 1976	27	30	6	1	3	3	8	0	0	2
21 June 1981	25	31	8	2	3	4	7	0	0	0
12 May 1985	28	26	8	2	3	3	7	0	0	3
29 October 1989	27	23	11	1	3	2	6	0	0	6

Election	Majority	Opposition	Total	Council	Mayor
Election			Total	Council	Mayor
21 November 1993	18 PDS 10 FdV 5 AD 3 LP	14 MSI 6 DC 3 PRC 1 PRI	60		Francesco Rutelli
16 November 1997	15 PDS 6 PRC 4 FdV 3 PPI 8 Others	15 AN 6 FI 2 CCD 1 MS-FT	60		Francesco Rutelli
13 May 2001	15 DS 7 DL 3 PRC 2 FdV 9 Others	11 AN 11 FI 1 CCD 1 Other	60		Walter Veltroni
28 May 2006	23 The Olive Tree 3 PRC 3 FdV 9 Others	14 AN 6 FI 2 UDC	60		Walter Veltroni
13 April 2008	35 PdL 1 Other	18 PD 2 SA 1 IdV 1 LD 1 UDC 1 Other	60		Gianni Alemanno
26 May 2013	19 PD 4 SEL 1 CD 5 Others	8 PdL 4 M5S 2 FdI 5 Others	48		Ignazio Marino
5 June 2016	29 M5S	8 PD 6 FdI 4 FI 1 SI	48		Virginia Raggi