The General Council for Italians Abroad (CGIE) is made up of 94 members in office for 5 years. A total of 65 of these are elected to represent the communities of Italians residing abroad.<\/p>\n
The elected members are chosen by an assembly formed for each country – or group of countries – by properly established COMITES and by associations of Italian communities, in numbers not to exceed 30% of the members of the COMITES in European countries, and 45% of transoceanic countries.<\/p>\n
In countries where COMITES are not established, the association of Italian communities operating in loco for at least 5 years are to propose twice as many names for the list of diplomatic representatives compared to the expected number.<\/p>\n
The remaining 29 members appointed by the government and assigned as follows:<\/p>\n
– 10 from the national emigration associations;<\/p>\n
– 7 from parties with parliamentary representation;<\/p>\n
– 9 from trade unions and from the most representative charitable institutions and that are represented on the CNEL (National Council for Economy and Labour);<\/p>\n
– 1 from the National Press Federation;<\/p>\n
– 1 from the United Federation of the Italian press abroad;<\/p>\n
– 1 from the most representative organisation of border labourers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The General Council for Italians Abroad (CGIE) is made up of 94 members in office for 5 years. A total of 65 of these are elected to represent the communities of Italians residing abroad. The elected members are chosen by an assembly formed for each country – or group of countries – by properly established […]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":212,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}