Nicola Zingaretti is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio from March 2013 to November 2022 and was Secretary of the Democratic Party from March 2019 until March 2021.
Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who has been serving as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He had previously served as prime minister of Italy from December 2016 to June 2018.
The Democratic Party is a social democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Elly Schlein,elected in the 2023 leadership election,while the party's president is Stefano Bonaccini.
The Renziani was a liberal area within the Democratic Party (PD) composed of the followers of Matteo Renzi,party's former national secretary and former Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 to December 2016. This area also took the name of Now! (Adesso!) and Big Bang. In September 2019,Renzi founded his own movement,Italia Viva (IV),exiting from the PD.
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. Since its beginnings,the CD has been also part of the centre-left coalition,centred around the Democratic Party (PD).
Remake Italy,whose members were known as Young Turks,was a social-democratic and,to some extent,democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy.
Maurizio Martina is an Italian politician and former member of the Chamber of Deputies,who served as secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from March to November 2018,being appointed after the 2018 Italian general election. He served as Minister of Agricultural,Food and Forestry Policies from 22 February 2014 to 13 March 2018,in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni. On 7 May 2017,he was elected Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party. Martina resigned as Agriculture Minister and took over as acting secretary of the PD after Matteo Renzi resigned following a poor election showing in 2018.
Giuseppe "Pippo" Civati is an Italian politician and publisher,former leader of Possible and a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018.
Roberto Giachetti is an Italian politician,member of Italia Viva and of the Transnational Radical Party. He has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2001.
The 2017 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 30 April 2017. The three candidates were Matteo Renzi,former Prime Minister and party secretary until February 2017,Michele Emiliano,President of Apulia,and Andrea Orlando,the Minister of Justice. Renzi was elected by a landslide 70%,and appointed Maurizio Martina as his deputy secretary.
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.
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.
The 2019 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 3 March 2019. The election was triggered by the resignation of Matteo Renzi on 12 March 2018,following the party's defeat at the 2018 general election. Vice Secretary Maurizio Martina was appointed Secretary in July 2018 by the National Assembly,but he resigned after few months to officially start the party's congress.
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.
Always Forward was a liberal and centrist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Its leaders were Roberto Giachetti and Anna Ascani,close advisors of Matteo Renzi,party's former national secretary and former Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 to December 2016.
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.
Democratic Energy is a liberal and centrist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Its leader is Anna Ascani,PD's vice president and deputy from Umbria,who was considered very close to Matteo Renzi,party's former national secretary and former Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 to December 2016.
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.
Cosimo Maria Ferri is an Italian politician and former magistrate. He served as the Undersecretary of State for Justice in the Letta government,the Renzi government,and the Gentiloni government. Since 2018,he has been a member of the Italian Parliament as a deputy for the Democratic Party,and from September 2019,he has represented Italia Viva. He also previously served as a member of the High Council of the Judiciary.
