The identikit of the new Parliament: the average age of those elected is 51, only one in three is a woman

FI senators touch, on average, 60.9 years

The parliamentary group with the highest average age (60.9 years) is that of Forza Italia in the Senate, followed by the centrists of Noi Moderati (58.5 years) and the Mixed Group (57.2). Also at Palazzo Madama the lowest average value is registered by the Action-Iv Group at 48.4 years. Who is even less elderly than his party colleagues in the Chamber (48.9 years), where the palm of the youngest goes to the deputies of the M5S (45.7 years). Also in this branch of Parliament the highest average age is that found in the group of the party led by Silvio Berlusconi (53 years).

68.1% of parliamentarians are between 40 and 60 years old

In the two chambers in which the parliamentarians elected in the “part-session” of 25 September sit there are no “under 30” present. And the “under 40” are just 65: 16.2% of the total number of deputies and senators, including those appointed “for life”. The percentage drops to 10.7% considering only the “ladies”. After all, the Senate must be at least 40 years old to be elected. The largest number of elected representatives in the two chambers is concentrated in the range between 40 and 60 years: 413 out of 606 (always considering also the senators for life), equal to 68.1% of the total.

Only 129 women in the Chamber, 71 in the Senate

For the first time since the thirteenth parliamentary term (1996-2001) the presence of women in Parliament decreases. That in the “parliamentary season” that has just ended (the eighteenth), when there were still 630 deputies and 315 elected senators, reached 35.71% in Montecitorio and 34.69% in Palazzo Madama. But in the current Parliament (“reduced ranks”) the percentage has dropped by more than three points in the House (32.25%) and by about 0.2 points in the Senate (34.47%). On average it has therefore fallen to 33%. Only 200 of the 600 seats available are elected women. In the Chamber there are 129 “ladies” (out of 400) and in the Senate 71 out of 206, taking into account the senators and senators for life.

At Palazzo Madama majority women in Action-Iv

The only group where women represent the majority is the one in the Senate of the formation led by Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi (55.5%), followed by the parliamentary “team” of the Five Stars (50%), while at Palazzo Madama the last three places are assigned, in sequence, to Pd (31.5%), FdI (26.9%) and, in the end, to FI (22.2%). In absolute terms, however, the party led by the new premier Giorgia Meloni is the one in which the presence of women in Parliament is more numerous with 17 senators and 37 deputies elected to the Chamber, where the leadership of the Group in which the female component is more marked goes to the M5S (44.2%). Also in Montecitorio to close this ranking are Lega and Fi (both with 27.2%) and, in last place, the Mixed Group (26.6%).