Sergio Berlato is an Italian politician from Veneto.
Luca Zaia is a Venetian and Venetist politician,who has been President of Veneto since 2010.
The People of Freedom was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL,launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007,was initially a federation of political parties,notably including Forza Italia and National Alliance,which participated as a joint election list in the 2008 general election. The federation was later transformed into a party during a party congress on 27–29 March 2009. The party's leading members included Angelino Alfano,Renato Schifani,Renato Brunetta,Roberto Formigoni,Maurizio Sacconi,Maurizio Gasparri,Mariastella Gelmini,Antonio Martino,Giancarlo Galan,Maurizio Lupi,Gaetano Quagliariello,Daniela Santanchè,Sandro Bondi,and Raffaele Fitto.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who has served as the president of Italy since 2015. He is the second longest-serving president in Italy.
Vittorio Feltri is an Italian former journalist and politician. Among the many Italian newspapers he directed,he was most recently the editor in chief of daily Libero until 2020,when he ended his professional journalist career due to a number of controversies and disciplinary proceedings. As a member of the Brothers of Italy party,he was a member of the City Council of Milan from 2021 to 2022,and is a member of the Regional Council of Lombardy. He is the author of several books.
Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since 22 October 2022,the first woman to hold this position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006,she has led the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014,and she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020.
Lorenzo Fontana is an Italian politician and member of the League (Lega),who is serving as President of the Chamber of Deputies since 14 October 2022.
Venetian Independence is a Venetist,liberal and,to some extent,libertarian political party active in Veneto. The party seeks to achieve full political independence for the former territories of the Venetian Republic from Italy through a referendum. IV,which functions also as an advocacy group,counts a handful of municipal councillors and has not been represented yet in the Regional Council of Veneto.
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,FdI marked Italy's first republican government led by the political right and its most right-wing government since World War II.
Gaetano Cozzi was an Italian historian,professor at Padua University,and researcher with the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche. He was a specialist in Venetian history,with special attention to the institutions,the relationship between law and society and the cultural environment.
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 is the party's leader and president,while Antonio Tajani functions as vice president and national coordinator. Other leading members include Elisabetta Casellati.
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 the 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 that position.
Lega,whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier,is a right-wing populist political party in Italy,led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord and,while sharing the latter's heartland in northern Italy,it is active all around the country.
The 2020 Italian by-elections are 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.
The 2021 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that began in January 2021 and ended the following month. It includes the events that follow the announcement of Matteo Renzi,leader of Italia Viva (IV) and former Prime Minister,that he would revoke IV's support to the government of Giuseppe Conte.
The 2022 Italian presidential election was held in Rome between 24 and 29 January 2022. The president of Italy was elected by a joint assembly composed of the Italian Parliament and regional representatives. The election process extended over multiple days,culminating in incumbent president Sergio Mattarella being confirmed for a second term,with a total of 759 votes on the eighth ballot. This was the second most votes ever received by a presidential candidate. Mattarella became the second president to be re-elected,his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano being the first.
A five-part abrogative referendum was held in Italy on 12 June 2022. Voters were asked to decide on the repeal of five articles or decrees relating to the functioning of the Italian judicial system. Each of the five questions was submitted by nine Italian regions,all governed by the centre-right coalition.
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 led by the president of Brothers of Italy,Giorgia Meloni,who is also the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Italy. The government was announced on 21 October 2022 and was officially sworn in on the next day. 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 Rocca is an Italian manager and politician,President of Lazio since 2023.
