Gentiloni cabinet

Paolo Gentiloni and Matteo Renzi at the traditional handover of the Council of Ministers bell on December 12, 2016 in Palazzo Chigi

The Gentiloni cabinet ruled Italy from December 12, 2016 to March 24, 2018 and then executive until June 1, 2018. After the parliamentary elections on March 4, 2018 , the constitution of the new chambers of parliament and the election of their presidents, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni handed in his Resignation of President Sergio Mattarella , who instructed Gentiloni and his government to take over the current official business until a new government is sworn in. The new Conte I cabinet was sworn in on June 1, 2018.

The Gentiloni cabinet was the third government in the republic's 17th legislative period, which ran from 2013 to 2018 . Like the last Renzi cabinet , it was based on a coalition of the social democratic Partito Democratico (PD) and smaller central and regional parties . Matteo Renzi and his cabinet resigned on December 7, 2016 after a constitutional reform project was rejected in a referendum on December 4, 2016 . Almost all the ministers in the Gentiloni cabinet belonged to the previous government; Paolo Gentiloni was Foreign Minister in the Renzi cabinet.

Gentiloni was commissioned by President Sergio Mattarella to form a government on December 11, 2016; Gentiloni and his ministers were sworn in by Mattarella the following day. On December 13th and 14th, the new government received the trust of the two chambers of parliament.

Ministers and State Secretaries

Office	image	minister		Vice Minister	(Sub) state secretaries
Prime Minister			Paolo Gentiloni (PD)		Maria Elena Boschi (PD), Sandro Gozi (PD)
Ministries
Foreign Affairs			Angelino Alfano ( NCD )	Mario Giro (SC)	Vincenzo Amendola (PD), Benedetto Della Vedova ( SC )
Interior			Marco Minniti (PD)	Filippo Bubbico (PD)	Gianpiero Bocci (PD), Domenico Manzione (independent)
Judiciary			Andrea Orlando (PD)		Federica Chiavaroli (NCD), Cosimo Maria Ferri (independent), Gennaro Migliore (PD)
Economy and finance			Pier Carlo Padoan (independent)	Luigi Casero (NCD), Enrico Morando (PD)	Pier Paolo Baretta (PD), Paola De Micheli (PD)
defense			Roberta Pinotti (PD)		Gioacchino Alfano (NCD), Domenico Rossi ( CD )
Infrastructure and traffic			Graziano Delrio (PD)	Riccardo Nencini ( PSI )	Umberto Del Basso De Caro (PD), Simona Vicari (NCD)
Economic development			Carlo Calenda (independent)	Teresa Bellanova (PD)	Antonio Gentile (NCD), Antonello Giacomelli (PD), Ivan Scalfarotto (PD)
Agriculture and Forestry			Maurizio Martina (PD)	Andrea Olivero (SC)	Giuseppe Castiglione (NCD)
Education and Research			Valeria Fedeli (PD)		Vito De Filippo (PD), Angela D'Onghia (independent), Gabriele Toccafondi (NCD)
Culture and tourism			Dario Franceschini (PD)		Dorina Bianchi (NCD), Ilaria Borletti Buitoni (PD), Antimo Cesaro (SC)
health			Beatrice Lorenzin (NCD)		Davide Faraone (PD)
Work and social			Giuliano Poletti (independent)		Franca Biondelli (PD), Luigi Bobba (PD), Massimo Cassano (NCD)
Environment, landscape and marine protection			Gian Luca Galletti ( CpE )		Barbara Degani (NCD), Silvia Velo (PD)
Minister with no portfolio
Relations with parliament			Anna Finocchiaro (PD)		Maria Teresa Amici (PD), Luciano Pizzetti (PD)
Administrative reforms and simplification			Marianna Madia (PD)		Angelo Rughetti (PD)
Regional affairs			Enrico Costa (NCD)		Gianclaudio Bressa (PD)
Territorial cohesion and southern Italy			Claudio De Vincenti (PD)
Sports			Luca Lotti (PD)

There were only three changes in the ministers with portfolio compared to the Renzi cabinet: Gentiloni's former foreign ministerial post was taken over by the former interior minister Angelino Alfano. The Ministry of the Interior went to Marco Minniti, who was responsible for the intelligence services of Italy in the Renzi cabinet as State Secretary in the Prime Minister 's Office. The third change concerned the Ministry of Education. There were also few changes in the state secretaries.

Web links

Commons : Cabinet Gentiloni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Italian Government Homepage (Italian)

See also

• Political system of Italy
• History of Italy # Changing government alliances, economic crisis (since 1994)
• Euro crisis # Italy

Footnotes

1. ↑ "Vice Minister" has been an additional term in Italy since 2001 for (sub) state secretaries in a prominent position, who relieve the respective minister in a special way. The number of vice ministers is limited to ten. See Ministry (Italy) and legal bases
2. ↑ The equivalent of German or Austrian state secretaries is called Sottosegretario di Stato or "Unterstaatssekretär" in Italy . Segretario di Stato or "State Secretary" is a not very common synonym for minister (with a portfolio) in Italy . In rare cases it is mentioned as an additional official title (Ministro - Segretario di Stato) .