Michela Vittoria Brambilla is an Italian politician, animal rights activist and businesswoman. On 12 May 2008 she was nominated undersecretary (Tourism) in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet; on 8 May 2009 she was appointed Minister of Culture and Tourism, a position held until 2011. In 2007 she set up The People of Freedom, the goal of which was to merge the right-wing allies of Berlusconi. She is a current leader of the Animalist Movement.
The Italian Pirate Party is a political party in Italy, founded on 16 September 2006, modelled on the Pirate Party of Sweden, founded earlier that year. It supports reform of copyright and patent law, privacy and freedom of expression.
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.
Civil Revolution was a left-wing coalition of political parties in Italy.
Civic Choice was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy founded by Mario Monti. The party was formed in the run-up of the 2013 general election to support the outgoing Prime Minister Monti and continue his political agenda. In the election SC was part of a centrist coalition named With Monti for Italy, along with Union of the Centre of Pier Ferdinando Casini and Future and Freedom of Gianfranco Fini.
The Party of Sardinians was a regionalist, Sardinian nationalist, social-democratic and separatist political party in Sardinia.
X Movement, later Project For – X Movement, is a populist political party in Italy founded in 2014 by some senators expelled from the Five Star Movement. The leader of the party is the former Senator Laura Bignami, while the national spokesperson is Giampaolo Sablich, her husband and former city councilor of Busto Arsizio.
Possible is a left-wing political party in Italy, launched in Rome on 21 June 2015. The party's founder is Giuseppe Civati, a former prominent member of the Democratic Party (PD). Possible's progressive platform is a mixture of social democracy, democratic socialism, green politics, liberalism and elements of participatory democracy.
The Liberal Popular Alliance, whose full name was Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies, was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. ALA members were known as Verdiniani, from the name of their leader Denis Verdini, who was formerly a long-time member and national coordinator of three successive centre-right parties led by Silvio Berlusconi until July 2015, when he broke with Berlusconi in order to support the government led by Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party.
The Network 2018 was a centre-left political party in Italy led by Leoluca Orlando, former leading member of Christian Democracy in Sicily, founder of The Network and The Democrats, and five-time mayor of Palermo.
Popular Agreement was a small political party in Italy led by Giampiero Catone.
Popular Alternative is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy that was founded on 18 March 2017 after the dissolution of New Centre-Right (NCD), one of the two parties that emerged at the break-up of The People of Freedom. "Popular" is a reference to popolarismo, the Italian variety of Christian democracy. The party has been a member of the European People's Party (EPP) since its foundation, having inherited the membership of the NCD.
Carla Rocchi is an Italian politician who served as a member of the Italian Senate from 23 April 1992 to 29 May 2001 as a member of the Federation of the Greens. She was first elected to the Senate in the 1992 elections, and was re-elected in 1994 and 1996. After serving in the Budget Committee her first two terms, she served as the Undersecretary for the Ministry of Public Education from 1999 to 2000, and served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Health from 2000 until the end of her term in 2001.
Us with Italy was a liberal conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
Italia in Comune is a green and progressive political party in Italy. It was founded in April 2018 by mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti, other former members of the Five Star Movement and local non-party independent politicians generally affiliated with the centre-left coalition.
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.
Green Europe, officially Green Europe – Greens, is a green political party in Italy.
Cambiamo! was a centre-right political party in Italy, led by Giovanni Toti.
Italy in the Centre was a liberal-conservative political party in Italy led by Giovanni Toti.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Italy to elect the delegation from Italy will be held on 8 and 9 June 2024. The outgoing MEPs are shown in italics.
