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2008 San Marino general election

National election

Field	Value
country	San Marino
flag_year	1862
previous_election	[2006](2006-san-marino-general-election)
next_election	[2012](2012-san-marino-general-election)
election_date	9 November 2008
seats_for_election	All 60 seats in the Grand and General Council
majority_seats	31
turnout	68.48% (3.36pp)
leader1	Antonella Mularoni
party1	Pact for San Marino
last_election1	34
seats1	35
percentage1	54.22
leader2	Fiorenzo Stolfi
party2	Reforms and Freedom
last_election2	26
seats2	25
percentage2	45.78
map	2008 Sammarinese general election.svg
map_caption	Results by castelli
title	Secretary for Foreigns
posttitle	New Secretary for Foreign Affairs
before_election	Fiorenzo Stolfi
before_party	Party of Socialists and Democrats
before_image	Rice San Marino 0420 600.jpg
after_election	Antonella Mularoni
after_image	Antonella Mularoni.jpg
after_party	Pact for San Marino

Snap general elections were held in San Marino on 9 November 2008. They were called after the collapse of the centre-left government which had won the previous 2006 elections.

In June 2008, due to disagreements within the coalition partners, the Party of Socialists and Democrats (PSD), Popular Alliance (AP) and United Left (SU), AP left the coalition and the cabinet fell down. The PSD tried to form a narrow-majority coalition with SU, Sammarineses for Freedom (SpL) and Centre Democrats (DdC), but two dissenting members of PSD left their party and formed Arengo and Freedom (AL), leaving the proposed coalition without a majority in Parliament.

Due to the new electoral law passed earlier in 2008 which introduced a number of changes (an electoral threshold of 3.5% and a majority premium for the winning coalition, on the example of the electoral system for the Italian cities), the election was contested by two major coalitions: Pact for San Marino (centre-right) and Reforms and Freedom (centre-left).

Electoral system

Voters had to be citizens of San Marino and at least 18 years old.

Coalitions and parties

Due to the new electoral law, Sammarinese political parties are organized in two major coalitions:

Pact for San Marino (Patto per San Marino)
Reforms and Freedom (Riforme e Libertà)

Pact for San Marino

Party	Ideology	Electoral list
	PDCS–EPS	Christian democracy
	Arengo and Freedom	Liberalism
	Popular Alliance	Big tent
	New Socialist Party	Social liberalism
	We Sammarineses	Liberal conservatism
	Sammarinese People	Conservatism
	Sammarinese National Alliance	National conservatism

Reforms and Freedom

Party	Ideology	Electoral list
	Party of Socialists and Democrats	Social democracy
	Sammarineses for Freedom	Social liberalism
	Communist Refoundation	Communism
	Left Party – Zona Franca	Democratic socialism
	Centre Democrats	Christian left

Results

References

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