The politics of Basilicata takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.

The Regional Government (Giunta Regionale) is presided by the President of the Region (Presidente della Regione), who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers (Assessori), who are currently 6, including a vice president.^[1]

List of presidents

Main article: List of presidents of Basilicata

Elected by the Regional Council (1970–1995)

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№	Name	Term of office		Political party	Legislature
1	Vincenzo Verrastro	1970	1975	DC	I (1970)
		1975	1980		II (1975)
		1980	1982		III (1980)
2	Carmelo Azzarà	1982	1985	DC
3	Gaetano Michetti	1985	1990	DC	IV (1985)
4	Antonio Boccia	1990	1995	DC	V (1990)

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Directly-elected presidents (since 1995)

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N.	Portrait	President	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Party		Composition	Legislature
5		Angelo Raffaele Dinardo (1932–2015)	15 June 1995	13 May 2000	4 years, 333 days		Italian People's Party	PDS–PPI–FL–PdD–FdV	VI (1995)
6		Filippo Bubbico (1954– )	13 May 2000	6 May 2005	4 years, 358 days		Democrats of the Left	DS–PPI–Dem–UDEUR–SDI– FdV–PRC–RI–PdCI	VII (2000)
7		Vito De Filippo (1963– )	6 May 2005	21 April 2010	8 years, 226 days		The Daisy/ Democratic Party	Ulivo–UDEUR–FdV– PRC–PdCI–IdV	VIII (2005)
			21 April 2010	18 December 2013[lower-alpha 1]				PD–IdV–UDC–PU– PSI–ApI–SEL	IX (2010)
8		Marcello Pittella (1962– )	18 December 2013	24 January 2019	5 years, 37 days		Democratic Party	PD–PSI–RI–CD	X (2013)
9		Vito Bardi (1951– )	16 April 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 20 days		Forza Italia	Lega–FI–FdI–IdeA	XI (2019)
			Re-elected					FdI–FI–Az–Lega	XII (2024)

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1. Resigned on 24 April 2013 after a corruption scandal. Remained in office as acting President till a new regional election was called.

The Regional Council of Basilicata (Consiglio Regionale della Basilicata) is composed of 30 members. 24 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 6 councillors (elected in bloc) come from a "regional list", including the President-elect. One seat is reserved for the candidate who comes second. If a coalition wins more than 50% of the total seats in the council with PR, only 3 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 26. If the winning coalition receives less than 40% of votes special seats are added to the council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.^[2]

The council is elected for a five-year term, but, if the President suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, under the simul stabunt, simul cadent clause introduced in 1999 (literally they will stand together or they will fall together), also the council is dissolved and a snap election is called.^[3]