2025 More Europe leadership election

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2025 More Europe leadership election
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300 delegates for the Congress
151 delegates votes needed to win
Registered5,875
Turnout5,204 (88.6%)
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Candidate Riccardo Magi Blank ballots
Delegate count20572
Percentage74.0%26.0%
Previous Secretary

Riccardo Magi

Secretary

Riccardo Magi

The 2025 More Europe leadership election was a congressional primary election that took place on 7, 8, and 9 February 2025 in Rome to elect the new party leadership. Riccardo Magi has been re-elected as secretary of More Europe, while Matteo Hallissey, former secretary and current president of Italian Radicals, has been elected as president. Hallissey won against the former secretary of More Europe, Benedetto Della Vedova, despite the latter having the endorsement of Riccardo Magi and Emma Bonino. [1]

Contents

Procedure

Timetable

Timetable of events for the 2025 More Europe leadership election [2] [3] [4]
Date(s)Event
27 October 2024
Assembly approves the Congress rules and deliberates on key dates for the third Congress. Primaries begin. [5]
31 December 2024
Enrollment for members closes.
7 January 2025
Opening of the pre-congressional phase.
9 January
Submission of candidacies for delegates closes.
10 January
Submission of candidacies for statutory amendments opens.
11–19 January
Party members can endorse candidacies for delegates.
26–27–28 January
Election of delegates takes place.
28 January
Publication of results for the elected delegates.
29 January
Submission of candidacies for statutory amendments closes.
1–6 February
Signing on statutory amendments takes place.
28 January–9 February
Filing of candidacies for the Secretary, President, Treasurer, and Assembly lists.
7–9 February
Start of the Congress, held in Rome.
9 February
Submission of candidacies for Assembly lists closes.
9 February
Election of the Secretary, President, Treasurer, and Assembly members takes place.

Candidates

Secretary

PortraitNameMost recent positionAnnouncedRefs
Riccardo Magi daticamera 2018.jpg Riccardo Magi
(age 48)
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for More Europe
(2018–present)

Other positions
9 February 2025

Assembly Lists

ListCampaign websiteTop candidateSupported Secretary
Heretic!
(Eretika!)		—Alfonso Maria Gallo—
Europeanism or Fascism
(Europeismo o Fascismo)		 Facebook page Agnese BalducciRiccardo Magi
IMAGIne The European Revolution
(ImMAGIna La Rivoluzione Europea		 Facebook page Riccardo MagiRiccardo Magi
Operation Millennium
(Operazione Millennium)		—Angelo Cenicola—
Let's Root More Europe in the Territories
(Radichiamo +Europa sui Territori)		—Riccardo VolpeRiccardo Magi
United States of Europe
(Stati Uniti d'Europa)		 Facebook page Benedetto Della Vedova —
Source: Assembly lists

Results

Secretary

CandidateVotes %
Riccardo Magi 20574.01
Blank ballots7225.99
Total277100.00
Valid votes27794.86
Invalid votes206.85
Votes cast / Turnout29297.33
Abstentions82.67
Registered delegates300100.00
Source: Results
Vote by delegates
Magi
 
74.0%
Blank ballots
 
26.0%

President

CandidateVotes %
Matteo Hallissey19869.47
Benedetto Della Vedova 8730.52
Total285100.00
Valid votes28596.61
Invalid votes41.35
Blank votes72.36
Votes cast / Turnout29698.7
Abstentions41.33
Registered delegates300100.00
Source: Results
Vote by delegates
Hallissey
 
69.5%
Della Vedova
 
30.5%

Delegates

ListsVotes %Weighted votes %Delegates
IMAGIne The European Revolution—2,425.740.83
123 / 300
Operation Millennium1,508.7525.40
76 / 300
United States of Europe835.514.06
42 / 300
Heretik!657.711.07
33 / 300
Europeanism or Fascism512.98.63
26 / 300
Total—5,940.55100.00300
Valid votes—5,940.5599.14—
Invalid and blank votes51.70.86
Votes cast / Turnout5,20488.585,992.2588.13
Abstentions67111.42807.4011.87
Registered voters5,875100.006,799.65100.00
Source: Delegates elected

Assembly

ListsVotes %Seats
Operation Millennium7023.97
21 / 100
Let's Root More Europe in the Territories5719.52
18 / 100
IMAGIne The European Revolution5619.18
17 / 100
United States of Europe4515.41
14 / 100
Heretik!3612.33
11 / 100
Europeanism or Fascism289.59
9 / 100
Blank votes31.03—
Votes cast / Turnout29598.33
Abstenstions51.67
Magi's list [a]
10 / 100
Total300100.0100
Source: Results
  1. ↑ Ten seats are assigned to the winner Secretary's list, that does not directly run as an Assembly list.

Aftermath

Just four days before the party enrollment closed for voting on December 31, 1,900 people, mainly from Giugliano in Campania and Afragola, joined the party. After party members elected the delegates, 61 delegates from the "ImMAGIna" list led by Riccardo Magi split off and created their own list called "Let's Root More Europe in the Territories," led by Rosario Mariniello. This led to a heated confrontation during the Congress, as the Board of Trustees of More Europe was tasked with investigating the sudden mass memberships and verifying whether each of the 1,900 individuals had paid with their own credit card. However, the Board failed to determine the regularity of these memberships since privacy rules prevented verification of the payments. [6] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Più Europa, il giovane Hallissey batte a sorpresa Della Vedova e viene eletto presidente. Magi riconfermato segretario". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 9 February 2025. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Congresso 2025". +Europa (in Italian). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "REGOLAMENTO DEL CONGRESSO DI +EUROPA" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Proposta di introduzione di disposizioni transitorie al Regolamento del IV Congresso Nazionale 7-9 febbraio 2025" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Convocato il 4 Congresso di Più Europa". +Europa (in Italian). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "PiùEuropa, i Re Magi delle tessere: lo scandalo delle iscrizioni di Capodanno". www.iltempo.it (in Italian). Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  7. ↑ Torchiaro, Aldo (11 February 2025). "Così PiùEuropa diventa PiùGiugliano: la cordata campana e la rivolta interna". Il Riformista (in Italian).
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