Italy's Chamber of Deputies

Italy's Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Italian Parliament. It has 400 elected deputies and shares legislative powers with the Senate of the Republic. The Chamber considers bills in committee and in the full House.

Italy has a two-house Parliament in which both chambers must approve legislation. The Chamber also directs and scrutinises the government, which must retain parliamentary confidence. Its deputies represent The Nation without a binding mandate.

This matters because Labour disputes can become questions for national lawmakers as well as employers and unions. During the July 2026 call-centre dispute over AI-driven job cuts, unions took demands to the Chamber. The institution is therefore a venue where employment protections, industrial policy and the rules governing AI at work can be pressed into the legislative agenda.