The Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 Chamber of Deputies is the lower house

Lower house

A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide the lower house has come to wield more power...

 of the Parliament of Italy

Parliament of Italy

The Parliament of Italy is the national parliament of Italy. It is a bicameral legislature with 945 elected members . The Chamber of Deputies, with 630 members is the lower house. The Senate of the Republic is the upper house and has 315 members .Since 2005, a party list electoral law is being...

. It has 630 seats, a plurality of which is controlled presently by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom. Twelve deputies represent Italian citizens outside of Italy. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio

Palazzo Montecitorio

The Palazzo Montecitorio is a palace in Rome and the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.- History :The building was originally designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the young Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV...

. A member of the Chamber of Deputies has the style of onorevole (honourable). Its current president (i.e. its speaker

Speaker (politics)

The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...

) is Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, leader of the center-right Future and Freedom party, and the former leader of the conservative National Alliance and the post-fascist Italian Social Movement...

, the leader of the Future and Freedom

Future and Freedom

Future and Freedom , whose complete name is Future and Freedom for Italy is a centre-right political party in Italy....

 party.

Vice Presidents

• Rosy Bindi
  Rosy Bindi
  Maria Rosaria Bindi, best known as Rosy Bindi is an Italian politician and the current President of the Democratic Party.-Career:...
  
   (until 7 November 2009)
• Rocco Buttiglione
  Rocco Buttiglione
  Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Christian Democrat politician and an academic.His nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his Roman Catholic views on homosexuality, despite...
  
  
• Antonio Leone
• Maurizio Lupi

Secretaries

• Gianpiero Bocci
• Emilia Grazia De Biasi
• Giuseppe Fallica
• Gregorio Fontana
• Donato Lamorte
• Mimmo Lucà
• Renzo Lusetti
• Lorena Milanato

See also

• Bicameralism
  Bicameralism
  In the government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. Thus, a bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of two chambers or houses....
  
  
• Chamber of Deputies
  Chamber of Deputies
  Chamber of deputies is the name given to a legislative body such as the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or can refer to a unicameral legislature.-Description:...
  
  
• Italian Parliament
• Italian Senate
  Italian Senate
  The Senate of the Republic is the upper house of the Italian Parliament. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as Senato del Regno , itself a continuation of the Senato Subalpino of Sardinia-Piedmont established on 8 May 1848...
  
  
• Lower house
  Lower house
  A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide the lower house has come to wield more power...
  
  
• Camera dei Deputati (TV channel)
  Camera dei Deputati (TV channel)
  Camera dei Deputati is an Italian TV channel dedicated to broadcast live coverage of Italian Chamber of Deputies from Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome, Italy....