9 November 2008 2012 → 1 1 54.2% 45.8% | 35 25 11,371 9,601 Start date November 9, 2008 | |
34 seats totally, 57.7% 26 seats totally, 42.3% Winner Antonella Mularoni | ||
Sammarinese general election 2008
A snap general election was held in San Marino on 9 November 2008. Elections were called after the collapse of the centre-left majority which had won the previous 2006 election.
Contents
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. The PSD tried to form a narrow-majority coalition with SU and Sammarinese for Freedom (SpL), but two dissenting members of PSD left their party and formed Arengo and Freedom (AL), leaving the proposed coalition without a majority in Parliament.
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), the election was contested by two major coalitions: Pact for San Marino (centre-right) and Reforms and Freedom (centre-left).
Coalitions and parties
Due to the new electoral law, Sammarinese political parties are organized in two major coalitions: