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. Since 2023 he is the President of the Italian Left. 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.
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 Communist Refoundation Party is a communist political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo,who replaced Paolo Ferrero in 2017. Armando Cossutta was the party's founder,while Fausto Bertinotti its longest-serving leader (1994–2008). The latter transformed the PRC from a traditional communist party into a collection of radical social movements.
The centre-left coalition is a political 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 fifteen years between 1996 and 2021;to do so,it had mostly to rely on a big tent that went from the more radical left-wing,which had more weight between 1996 and 2008,to the political centre,which had more weight during the 2010s,and its main parties were also part of grand coalitions and national unity governments.
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 eight senators,and twoo 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-European 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 had a single minister,Roberto Speranza,in the national unity government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Giulio Santagata was an Italian politician who was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the leader of Together.
Luca Pastorino is an Italian politician and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2013. In 2019,he co-founded èViva with Francesco Laforgia.
Fernando [[dalla Chiesa is an Italian academic and politician,honorary president of Libera,former deputy and senator.
Agazio Loiero is an Italian politician. He is a former president of Calabria and minister in the second D'Alema government and the second Amato government.
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.
