Adriana Vigneri (born 9 January 1939) is an Italian academic, lawyer and politician.
Born in Treviso and graduated in law, she became a lawyer and a professor of public law at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. [1] [2] She entered the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1992, as a member of the Democratic Party of the Left, and will remain there until 2001 for three consecutive legislatures. [3]
She was a member of the following parliamentary bodies: Committee for the authorization to proceed, the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Parliamentary Committee for the prosecution proceedings. [4]
In May 1996 she was appointed Undersecretary of State for the Interior in the government of Romano Prodi. [5] Assignment also held in the first government of Massimo D'Alema. [6] On 30 December 1999, in the D'Alema II government, she was appointed undersecretary of state to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. [7]
Romano Prodi is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 18 May 1996 to 21 October 1998, and then from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the so-called Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.
Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and was Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), Italy's leading centre-left party, from 2009 to 2013. Bersani was Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftmanship from 1996 to 1999, President of Emilia-Romagna from 1993 to 1996, Minister of Transport from 1999 to 2001, and Minister of Economic Development from 2006 to 2008.
Giorgio Napolitano is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first to be re-elected to the office. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, some critics have sometimes referred to him as Re Giorgio. In office from 2006 to 2015, he is the longest-serving and longest-lived president in the history of the modern Italian Republic, which has been in existence since 1946.
The Minister of Defence is a senior member of the Italian Cabinet who leads the Ministry of Defence. The minister is responsible for military and civil defence matters and managing the Italian Armed Forces.
Mario Clemente Mastella is an Italian politician who has been the mayor of Benevento since 20 June 2016. He is the leader of Union of Democrats for Europe, a minor centrist Italian party. He was Minister of Labour in the Berlusconi government from 10 May 1994 to 17 January 1995 and Minister of Justice in the Prodi government from 17 May 2006 to 17 January 2008.
Paolo De Castro is an Italian politician, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies in the D'Alema I, D'Alema II and Prodi II cabinets.
The Minister of Health in Italy is one of the positions in the Italian government. The ministry was officially established in 1958, with Vincenzo Monaldi, of the Christian Democracy, serving as the first minister. From 1946 to 1958, the position was held by a High Commissioners for Hygiene and Public Health, who was not a minister but a special commissioner. Nicola Perrotti, of the Italian Socialist Party, served as the first high commissioner.
Salvatore Cardinale is an Italian politician.
The second Prodi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008, a total of 722 days, or 1 year, 11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic, it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislature.
The first Prodi government was the 53rd government of Italy. It held office from 18 May 1996 until 21 October 1998.
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy. Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic, he is referred to as Leader Maximo. He is also the author of several books.
Gianni Vernetti is a writer and Italian politician.
Maria Elisabetta Casellati is an Italian lawyer and politician. She was President of the Italian Senate from 2018 to 2022. She was the first woman ever to have held this position. Casellati is a long-time member of the liberal-conservative party Forza Italia and served as Undersecretary of Health and Justice in previous governments. In 2022, she was nominated as candidate for President of Italy by the centre-right coalition.
The first D'Alema government was the government of Italy from 21 October 1998 to 22 December 1999.
Marco Minniti is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the government of Italy as Minister of the Interior from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. Previously, he was one of the most prominent councilors of former Prime Ministers Matteo Renzi and Massimo D'Alema.
Claudio De Vincenti is an Italian politician, economist and university professor.
Tiziano Treu is an Italian politician and academic, former Minister of Labour and Social Security and Minister of Transports, and former president of the National Council for Economics and Labour.
Fernando "Nando" dalla Chiesa is an Italian academic and politician, honorary president of Libera, former Deputy and Senator.
Daniela Melchiorre is an Italian magistrate and politician.
Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli was an Italian politician, jurist, and academic.