Prodi II cabinet

The Prodi II cabinet was in office from May 17, 2006 to May 8, 2008 and since the resignation of the Prime Minister on January 24, 2008, it has only been provisional.

Parliamentary elections in Italy in 2008 took place on April 13-14, 2008. Berlusconi's party alliance won in both chambers; Berlusconi formed the Berlusconi IV cabinet (May 8, 2008 to November 16, 2011).

Office	Minister (Party) Vice Minister (Party)	State Secretary (party)
President of the Council of Ministers	Romano Prodi ( PD ) Massimo D'Alema (PD) Francesco Rutelli (PD)	Enrico Letta (PD) Enrico Micheli (PD) Ricardo Franco Levi (PD) Fabio Gobbo (independent)
Ministries
Foreign Affairs	Massimo D'Alema (PD) Ugo Intini ( PS - Rosa nel Pugno ) Patrizia Sentinelli ( Rifondazione ) Franco Danieli (PD)	Famiano Crucianelli ( SD ) Donato Di Santo (PD) Gianni Vernetti (PD) Vittorio Craxi (PS- I Socialisti )
Interior	Giuliano Amato (PD) Marco Minniti (PD)	Graziella Lucidi (PD) Ettore Rosato (PD) Alessandro Pajno (independent) Franco Bonato (Rifondazione)
Judiciary	Clemente Mastella ( Popolari-Unione Democratici per l'Europa (UDEUR) , until January 17, 2008) Romano Prodi (PD, January 17 - February 7, 2008) Luigi Scotti (independent, since February 7, 2008)	Luigi Manconi (PD) Alberto Maritati (PD) Daniela Melchiorre ( Liberal Democratici ) Luigi Scotti (independent) Luigi Li Gotti ( Italia dei Valori )
Economy and finance	Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (independent) Vincenzo Visco (PD) Roberto Pinza (PD)	Massimo Tononi (PD) Paolo Cento ( Greens ) Mario Lettieri (PD) Alfiero Grandi (SD) Antonangelo Casula (PD) Nicola Sartor (independent, since June 9, 2006)
Economic development	Pier Luigi Bersani (PD) Sergio D'Antonio (PD)	Mario Bubbico (PD) Paolo Giaretta (PD, until April 24, 2007) Marco Stradiotto (PD, since April 24, 2007) Alfonso Gianni (Rifondazione)
defense	Arturo Parisi (PD)	Giovanni Lorenzo Forcieri (PD) Emidio Casula (PS-Rosa nel Pugno) Marco Verzaschi (UDEUR, until December 7, 2007)
education	Giuseppe Fioroni (PD) Mariangela Bastico (PD)	Gaetano Pascarella (PD) Letizia De Torre (PD)
Infrastructure	Antonio Di Pietro (Italia dei Valori) Angelo Capodicasa (PD)	Luigi Meduri (PD) Tommaso Casillo (PS-Rosa nel Pugno)
Environment, landscape and marine protection	Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (Greens)	Gianni Piatti (PD) Bruno Dettori (PD) Laura Marchetti (Rifondazione)
health	Livia Turco (PD)	Serafino Zucchelli (PD) Antonio Gaglione (PD) Gian Paolo Patta ( PdCI )
Agriculture and Forest Policy	Paolo De Castro (PD)	Guido Tampieri (PD) Stefano Boco (Greens) Giovanni Mongiello ( DCU )
Work and social security	Cesare Damiano (PD)	Antonio Montagnino (PD) Rosa Rinaldi (Rifondazione)
Culture	Francesco Rutelli (PD)	Elena Montecchi (PD) Andrea Marcucci (PD) Danielle Mazzonis (Rifondazione)
communication	Paolo Gentiloni (PD)	Luigi Vimercati (PD) Giorgio Calò (Italia dei Valori)
Education, universities and research	Fabio Mussi (SD)	Luciano Modica (PD) Nando Dalla Chiesa (PD)
Social solidarity	Paolo Ferrero (Rifondazione)	Franca Donaggio (PD) Cristina De Luca (PD)
traffic	Alessandro Bianchi (independent, suggested by the PdCI) Cesare De Piccoli (PD)	Andrea Annunziata (PD) Raffaele Gentile (PS, since June 9, 2006)
International trade and European policy	Emma Bonino (Rosa nel Pugno- Radicali )	Mauro Agostini (PD) Miloš Budin (PD)
Minister with no portfolio
Reforms and Relations with Parliament	Vannino Chiti (PD)	Giampaolo D'Andrea (PD) Paolo Naccarato (PD)
Reforms and innovation in public administration	Luigi Nicolais (PD)	Beatrice Magnolfi (PD) Giampiero Scanu (PD)
Regional affairs and local independence	Linda Lanzillotta (PD)	Pietro Colonnella (PD)
Implementation of the government program	Giulio Santagata (PD)	-
Civil rights and equality	Barbara Pollastrini (PD)	Donatella Linguiti (Rifondazione)
Youth and sport	Giovanna Melandri (PD)	Giovanni Lolli (PD) Elidio De Paoli ( Lombard Alliance )
family	Rosy Bindi (PD)	Chiara Acciarini (SD)