The next general election to renew the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic will be held on 4 March 2018: the date, which had already been considered the most likely for several days, was confirmed by the Council of Ministers, which Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni convened immediately after the official end of the current legislature. Head of state Sergio Mattarella, having consulted the presidents of the two houses of parliament, Pietro Grasso and Laura Boldrini, signed the decree dissolving the Senate and the Chamber. Until the next government is sworn in, the current executive remains in office and will be able to govern through the implementation of legislative decrees: Gentiloni himself, at the end-of-year press conference at the Chamber, had assured that "Italy is not pressing pause. The election campaign is beginning, but the government will not ship its oars: within the limits of the prerogatives granted by law, the government will govern."

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#video: il Presidente #Mattarella dopo aver incontrato i Presidenti di #Camera e #Senato ha firmato il decreto di scioglimento delle #Camere che è stato controfirmato dal #PresidentedelConsiglio
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Between now and March, when voters will go to the polls under the new electoral law, the Rosatellum, parliament will no longer convene: this rules out any possibility of debating the citizenship law, the so-called ius soli, despite appeals from certain political figures including members of the PD, such as the president of the Senate Human Rights Commission, Luigi Manconi, who had asked President Mattarella to delay the dissolution of parliament for just long enough to discuss ius soli.