What for of government does Italy have?
Italy is a parliamentary democracy. It is also a republic and a unitary state. Being parliamentary means that Italy’s government combines the legislative and executive branches of government into one. The prime minister (a member of the parliament) leads his party coalition in the government and supervises the government bureaucracy. He is the head of government. Italy is a republic, because its head of state (who has a ceremonial role as leader of the nation) is an elected president, not a king or queen. Italy is unitary, because the national government makes decisions, and regional governments can’t over-rule the national government on any major policy area.
