The Italian Parliament

Italian bicameral system is

• perfect, because it is the best in the world

• perfect, because the two chambers detain the same rights and prerogatives

• imperfect, because it does not work properly

• mixed

Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Republic differ one from the other because of

• active electorate

• passive electorate

• electoral system

• all the answers are correct

In order to elect the Chamber of Deputies you have to be at least

• 25 years old

• 40 years old

• 18 years old

• 21 years old

To be elected senator in Italian you have to be at least

• 25 years old

• 40 years old

• 50 years old

• 18 anni old

The Chamber of Deputies meets at

• Montecitorio

• Palazzo Madama

• Quirinale

• Viminale

The Senate of the Republic holds its plenary sessions at

• Montecitorio

• Palazzo Madama

• Quirinale

• Viminale

If MePs do not have a mandate constraint or are not tied to their party

• they have to vote according to the polical decisions of their party

• they cannot change party during the entire legislature

• they are not allowed to change parliamentary group

• all the other answers are wrong

Absolute majority is equal to

• 50% of the members of one chamber + 1

• 51% of the members of one chamber

• 50% of the valid votes + 1

• 51% of the valid votes

It is a synonim of legal number

• relative or simple majority

• absolute majority

• deliberative quorum

• constitutive quorum

What is a constitutive quorum or a legal number

• the number of MePs which have to be present so that the session of the chamber is valid

• the number of MePs which have to be present so that the decision can be taken

• the number of MePs who have to be absent so that the chamber cannot decide

• all the other answers are wrong