Lecce is a city in southern Italy and capital of the province of Lecce,with the second-highest population in the Apulia region. It is on the Salentine Peninsula,at the heel of the Italian Peninsula,and is over two thousand years old.
Sergio Chiamparino is an Italian politician. He was the mayor of Turin from 2001 to 2011,and the president of Piedmont from 2014 to 2019. He is also the author of several books,including Semplicemente sindaco,La sfida. Oltre il Pd per tornare a vincere. Anche al Nord (2010),Cordata con sindaco,and TAV. Perchésì.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who has been President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023,Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
Brothers of Italy is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy,the country's largest after the 2022 Italian general election. The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy. According to observers,Meloni's has been the "most right-wing" republican government,thus since World War II.
Forza Italia is a centre-right political party in Italy,whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism,Christian democracy,liberalism and populism. FI is a member of the European People's Party. Silvio Berlusconi was the party's leader and president until his death in 2023. The party has since been led by Antonio Tajani,who had been vice president and coordinatior and now functions as secretary. Other leading members include Elisabetta Casellati.
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.
Alessandra Moretti is an Italian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
The 2022 Italian general election was a snap election held in Italy on 25 September 2022. After the fall of the Draghi government,which led to a parliamentary impasse,President Sergio Mattarella dissolved Parliament on 21 July,and called for new elections. Regional elections in Sicily were held on the same day. The results of the general election showed the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy,a radical-right political party with neo-fascist roots,winning an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. Meloni was appointed Prime Minister of Italy on 22 October,becoming the first woman to hold the office.
Teresa Bellanova is an Italian politician and trade unionist,who served as Minister of Agriculture from September 2019 to January 2021 in the government of Giuseppe Conte. In 2018,she was elected in the Italian Senate for the Democratic Party (PD),but in 2019 she joined Italia Viva (IV),the new movement of Matteo Renzi. Bellanova was also a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018.
The 2019 Piedmontese regional election took place on 26 May 2019,the same day as the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. The election was for all 50 members of the Regional Council of Piedmont,as well as for the president of Piedmont,who is also a member of the council.
Elena Ethel "Elly" Schlein is an Italian politician who has been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) since 12 March 2023. She is a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies and was previously the vice-president of Emilia-Romagna and a member of the European Parliament. On 26 February 2023,she was elected as the new secretary of the PD with 54% of the vote,becoming the first woman to lead the party.
Jole Santelli was an Italian politician. A member of Forza Italia,she was the President of Calabria from 15 February 2020 until her death eight months later.
Valentina Cuppi is an Italian politician. She has been president of the Democratic Party (PD) from February 2020 to March 2023. Since June 2019,she is also serving as mayor of Marzabotto,a town near Bologna.
Franco Ortolani was an Italian politician who served in the Italian Senate for the Five Star Movement from 2018 to 2019.
Antonio Fosson is an Italian politician. Antonio was elected president of Aosta Valley from 10 December 2018 to 16 December 2019. Antonio is a member of the Pour Notre Vallée Party.
The following is a list of events during the year 2022 in Italy.
Constitution,Environment,Labour,whose full name is United for the Constitution –C.A.L. –Alternative –PC –Italy Again –Project SMART –IdV,is a heterogeneous populist,Eurosceptic,and mainly left-wing parliamentary group active in the Senate of the Republic.
In the 2022 Italian general election,the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) won an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. On 20 October,a few days following the elections of the presidents of the two houses of Parliament,Ignazio La Russa of FdI on 13 October for the Senate of the Republic,and Lorenzo Fontana of the League on 14 October for the Chamber of Deputies,consultations on the formation of a new cabinet officially began.
The Meloni government is the 68th government of the Italian Republic,the first headed by Giorgia Meloni,leader of Brothers of Italy,who is also the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Italy. The government was sworn in on 22 October 2022. It was one of the fastest government formations in the history of the Italian Republic. It was variously described as a shift to the political right,as well as the first far-right-led coalition in Italy since World War II.
Francesco Lollobrigida is an Italian politician who has been the minister of agriculture since 22 October 2022. A leading member of the national-conservative Brothers of Italy,Lollobrigida is widely considered one of the closest allies of Giorgia Meloni.
