Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. He is one of the first openly LGBT Italian politicians and the first openly LGBT heads of a regional government in Italy.
Angelino Alfano is an Italian former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
Maria Rosaria "Rosy" Bindi is an Italian politician and the former President of the Antimafia Commission.
Leoluca Orlando,is an Italian politician. He was Mayor of Palermo for over twenty years and was president of the Italian Federation of American Football (FIDAF). He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia during his mayoralty in the 1980s,which was publicly referenced in the media as the Palermo Spring.
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 Italian Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups:Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists,the faction of the New Italian Socialist Party led by Gianni De Michelis,The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi,Democracy and Socialism of Gavino Angius,the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci,Socialism is Freedom of Rino Formica and some other minor organisations. Until October 2009,the party was known as Socialist Party.
Dario Franceschini is an Italian lawyer,writer,and politician,member of the Democratic Party (PD),of which he briefly became leader in 2009. Franceschini served as Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism,a position that he held from February 2014 to June 2018 and again from September 2019 to October 2022,making him the longest-serving cultural heritage minister in the history of the Italian Republic. Franceschini also served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations from 2013 to 2014.
Left Ecology Freedom was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party.
The centre-left coalition is an alliance of political parties in Italy active,under several forms and names,since 1995 when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi. The centre-left coalition has ruled the country for more than 15 years between 1996 and 2022.
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.
Italian Left is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies,including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL),dissidents from the Democratic Party like Future to the Left,and splinters from the Five Star Movement. At its launch,SI included 32 deputies,who were soon followed by 8 senators,and 2 MEPs. SI was officially formed as a full-fledged party in February 2017,after SEL had chosen to merge into it in December 2016.
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 Italian Left leadership election was a congressional primary election held on 17,18 and 19 February 2017.
Article One,officially Article 1 –Democratic and Progressive Movement,was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
More Europe is a liberal and pro-Europeanist political party in Italy,part of the centre-left coalition and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
Free and Equal was a left-wing electoral list and parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and a sub-group in the Senate,the two houses of the Italian Parliament. LeU was launched on 3 December 2017 as a federation of political parties including Article 1,Italian Left and Possible. The leader of the alliance for the 2018 general election was Pietro Grasso,former President of the Senate and former anti-Mafia prosecutor. The three founding parties left the alliance in late 2018,but LeU continued to exist in Parliament. Following the 2021 Italian government crisis,LeU has a single minister,Roberto Speranza,in the national unity government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Fernando "Nando" dalla Chiesa is an Italian academic and politician,honorary president of Libera,former Deputy and Senator.
Agazio Loiero is an Italian politician,former President of Calabria and minister in the D'Alema II Cabinet and the Amato II Cabinet.
Antonio Pizzinato is an Italian trade unionist and politician,General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1986 to 1988.
Paola De Micheli is an Italian manager and politician of the Democratic Party (PD),who served as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021;she was the first woman to hold the office.
