Les élections municipales de 1993 en Italie

Abstract

The 1993 municipal elections in Italy The June and November-December 1993 municipal elections in Italy inaugurated a new local election law which makes partial use of the majority principle and, even more importantly, distinguishes the direct election of mayors and the election of the councils. The civic crisis and the falling apart of the party system dominated by Christian Democracy have made possible a political redistribution, provided that the parties and the voters use fully this new election system. Among the major parties, only the PDS seems to have worked out a real strategy of alliances and to have benefited substantially from it. The DC and its governmental allies, discredited in public opinion, have remained isolated, both from the center-left and from the neo- or post-Fascist right and the federalists of the Lombard League : the « government sphere » paid the price through a spectacular rout. Faced with awkward or uncertain parties, the voters nevertheless generally validated the electoral reform by showing interest in the direct election of mayors and by granting a leading role to this personalized vote as compared to the vote for party lists.