The Five Star Movement is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte,Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo,a political activist and comedian,and Gianroberto Casaleggio,a web strategist. The party is primarily described as populist,of the syncretic kind,due to its members' insistence that it has no place in the left–right political spectrum. The party is a proponent of green politics,direct democracy and,broadly,progressivism.
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament,even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition,and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.
Democratic Centre is a centrist,Christian leftist and social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members,including its leader Bruno Tabacci,are former Christian Democrats.
Luigi Di Maio is an Italian politician who has been serving as EU Special Representative for the Gulf region since 1 June 2023. Di Maio also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022,as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development,Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019,and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the 17th Italian legislature.
Roberto Fico is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Five Star Movement,and served as the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022. Previously,he was the Chairman of the RAI Supervision Commission from 2013 to 2018.
The 2017 Five Star Movement leadership election was an Italian online primary election held on 21 September 2017 that determined the M5S candidate to the premiership for the 2018 Italian general election.
More Europe is a liberal and pro-European political party in Italy,part of the centre-left coalition and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
The 2019 European Parliament election in Italy were held on 26 May 2019,electing members of the 9th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the European elections held across the European Union.
Italia Viva is a liberal political party in Italy founded in September 2019. The party is led by Matteo Renzi,a former Prime Minister of Italy and former secretary of the Democratic Party (PD). As of 2021,Italia Viva is a member of the European Democratic Party.
The 2020 Italian by-elections were called to fill seats in the Parliament that became vacant after the 2018 general elections. In 2020,by-elections were held for the Chamber of Deputies the Senate of the Republic.
Together for the Future was a centrist political party in Italy,which for all of its existence was active solely as a parliamentary group. Its founder and leader was Luigi Di Maio. All of its parliamentary members were elected for the Five Star Movement (M5S) in the 2018 Italian general election but exited from the party in June 2022,when the M5S's former leader Di Maio decided to form his own political group,following tensions with M5S leader Giuseppe Conte.
Civic Commitment was an Italian centrist electoral list running in the 2022 general election,composed of Luigi Di Maio's Together for the Future (IpF) and Bruno Tabacci's Democratic Centre (CD).
Giuseppe L'Abbate is an Italian politician.
Gaetano Amato is an Italian actor,writer and politician.
Roberto Traversi is an Italian politician.
Azzurra Pia Maria Cancelleri is an Italian politician,a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Five Star Movement from 2013 to 2022.
Federica Daga is an Italian politician. She served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the 17th and 18th legislatures of the Italian Republic. Initially elected as a representative of the 5 Star Movement,she later joined the Together for the Future party in 2022 following Luigi Di Maio's split.
Giovanni Luca Aresta is an Italian politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic. Initially elected as a representative of the 5 Star Movement,he later joined the Together for the Future party in 2022 following Luigi Di Maio's split.
Luigi Iovino is an Italian politician,a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic. He served as the Secretary of the Presidency Office of the Chamber of Deputies from October 2,2019,to October 12,2022,making him the youngest in the history of the Italian Republic.
Marialuisa Faro is an Italian politician and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic representing the Five Star Movement.
