The Greens Greens is a liberal-environmentalist political party in Italy. The party is predominantly active in Piedmont.
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.
The Southern Action League is a regionalist far-right Italian political party active in Apulia,especially in Taranto.
Alliance of the Centre,whose full name is Alliance of the Centre for the Territories,is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
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.
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.
Giorgio Gori is an Italian entrepreneur,journalist,and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former mayor of Bergamo.
Italia in Comune is a green and progressive political party in Italy. It was founded in April 2018 by mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti,other former members of the Five Star Movement and local non-party independent politicians generally affiliated with the centre-left coalition.
Antonio Decaro is an Italian politician,current Mayor of Bari.
Matteo Ricci is an Italian politician and former mayor of Pesaro. He began his career in the Democrats of the Left (DS). From 2009 to 2014,he was also the president of the province of Pesaro and Urbino with the Democratic Party (PD). After being elected mayor in 2014,he was re-elected in 2019.
Dario De Luca is an Italian politician. A member of the right-wing party Brothers of Italy,De Luca was elected mayor of Potenza on 8 June 2014 and took office on 23 June 2014. He was the first right-wing mayor of Potenza,the first to come from the centre-right coalition,and the first Brothers of Italy member to become mayor of a regional capital in Italy. Despite this,he was able to attract the support of the opposition,having to rely on them to have a majority in the city council. In early 2015,De Luca initially resigned but soon retracted after gaining support in the city council. He did not run for re-election in 2019.
David Maria Sassoli was an Italian politician and journalist who served as the president of the European Parliament from 3 July 2019 until his death on 11 January 2022. Sassoli was first elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009.
Alessandro Ciriani is an Italian politician.
Pietro Bartolo,OMRI,,is an Italian doctor and politician. From 1992 to 2019,he was known as the responsible medician for first visits to migrants who landed in Lampedusa;in 25 years,he examined and cared for about 250,000 refugees on the island. In 2019,Bartolo was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Party.
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.
The municipal elections in Bologna took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent Mayor of Bologna was Virginio Merola of Democratic Party,who won the 2016 Bologna municipal election. The centre-left candidate Matteo Lepore won in a landslide with 62% of votes,becoming the most voted mayor since the introduction of direct elections in 1995.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Italy to elect the delegation from Italy will be held on 8 and 9 June 2024. The outgoing MEPs are shown in italics.
Sara Funaro is an Italian politician,Mayor of Florence since 26 June 2024 and the first woman to hold this office.
