The Italian electoral authority announced the allocation of seats in the newly elected parliament late Monday evening.

The mandate majority of the centre-right alliance is clearly disproportionate in both chambers compared to the majority of the electorate.

According to this, the parties of the right-wing alliance, whose joint list had received around 44 percent of the votes, each received a good 57 percent of the seats in both chambers of parliament.

Matthias Rub

Political correspondent for Italy, the Vatican, Albania and Malta based in Rome.

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The preponderance comes about because, according to the electoral law, around a third of the mandates in the House of Representatives and in the Senate are awarded in individual constituencies after the majority election, the remaining seats then after the proportional representation via state lists.

The right-wing parties formed an alliance early on and entered the race with a common candidate in each constituency.

The left had no chance against this with two or more challengers competing with each other in most individual constituencies.

Lega only at nine percent

In both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the center-right alliance won around 86 percent of the individual constituencies, while the two political camps were roughly equal when it came to list mandates based on proportional representation.

The electoral law, which the left is now complaining about, was drafted in 2017 by the Social Democratic MP Ettore Rosato and approved by the then left-wing majority in parliament.

In the victorious electoral alliance, the first conflicts emerged with a view to the future cabinet.

According to media reports, Prime Minister-designate Giorgia Meloni from the right-wing Conservative Brothers of Italy party does not want to offer Matteo Salvini, the former interior minister and party leader of the right-wing national Lega, a position in the cabinet, let alone the interior department he was once again aiming for.

Salvini is considered a big loser on the right, his party lost around half of its share of the vote compared to the 2018 elections and is now almost nine percent.

A case against Salvini is pending before a court in Palermo for deprivation of liberty and abuse of office in the case of the private rescue ship "Open Arms".

The ship could not dock for days in August 2019 due to the port blockade imposed by Salvini with 150 rescued boat migrants on board.

Berlusconi: EU is essential for Italy's future

According to media reports, Meloni wants to fill key departments with followers from his own ranks and non-party experts.

Meloni's brothers in Italy won 26 percent of the vote, around eight percentage points more than their allies Lega and Silvio Berlusconi's Christian Democratic Forza Italia combined.

Former Prime Minister Berlusconi assured on Monday evening that his party, as a member of the European People's Party (EPP) family, felt obliged to "guarantee the pro-European profile and the transatlantic profile of the next government".

"Good relations with our historic allies in the US and the key EU countries are essential for Italy's future," said Berlusconi.

According to media reports, the soon to be 86-year-old media entrepreneur is aiming for the post of Senate President, the second-highest state office after the presidency.

The political "elephant graveyard" with formerly powerful and prominent politicians continued to fill up.

Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who left the left-wing populist Five Star Movement shortly before the elections, failed to return to parliament.

Former EU Commissioner Emma Bonino and the founding father of the Lega Nord, Umberto Bossi, were also not re-elected.

The former five-star politician Gianluigi Paragone also missed the leap into parliament, who clearly failed at the three percent hurdle with his newly founded anti-European Italexit party.