2008 San Marino general election

2008 San Marino general election
San Marino
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All 60 seats in the Grand and General Council
31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout68.48% (Decrease3.36pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Pact for San Marino Antonella Mularoni 54.22 35 +1
Reforms and Freedom Fiorenzo Stolfi 45.78 25 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by castelli
Secretary for Foreigns before New Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Fiorenzo Stolfi
PSD		 Antonella Mularoni
Pact for San Marino

Snap general elections were held in San Marino on 9 November 2008. They were called after the collapse of the centre-left government which had won the previous 2006 elections.

In June 2008, due to disagreements within the coalition partners, the Party of Socialists and Democrats (PSD), Popular Alliance (AP) and United Left (SU), AP left the coalition and the cabinet fell down.[1] The PSD tried to form a narrow-majority coalition with SU, Sammarineses for Freedom (SpL) and Centre Democrats (DdC),[2] but two dissenting members of PSD left their party and formed Arengo and Freedom (AL), leaving the proposed coalition without a majority in Parliament.[3][4]

Due to the new electoral law passed earlier in 2008 which introduced a number of changes (an electoral threshold of 3.5% and a majority premium for the winning coalition, on the example of the electoral system for the Italian cities[5]), the election was contested by two major coalitions: Pact for San Marino (centre-right) and Reforms and Freedom (centre-left).

  1. ^ "Radio e Televisione della Repubblica di San Marino - Politica". Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
  2. ^ "Radio e Televisione della Repubblica di San Marino - Politica". Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
  3. ^ "Radio e Televisione della Repubblica di San Marino - Politica". Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
  4. ^ "Radio e Televisione della Repubblica di San Marino - Politica". Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
  5. ^ ":::ELEZIONI REP. SAN MARINO::: Sistema elettorale". Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2008-10-03.