Giovanni Saverio Furio Pittella is an Italian politician who served as Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group from 2014 to 2018 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Italy from 1999 to 2018. He previously served as First Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014.
Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord party since December 2013 and an Italian senator since March 2018. Salvini represented Northwestern Italy in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2018.
The Five Star Movement is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte,who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The party was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo,a political activist and comedian,and Gianroberto Casaleggio,a web strategist. It is primarily described as populist of the syncretic kind,due to its members' long-time insistence that it has no place in the left–right political spectrum. The party has been a proponent of green politics and direct democracy,and,since the party's crescent involvement in the centre-left coalition,progressivism,social democracy and left-wing populism.
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament,even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition,and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.
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.
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy was a Eurosceptic and populist political group in the European Parliament. The EFDD group was a continuation for the Eighth European Parliament of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group that existed during the Seventh European Parliament,with significant changes to group membership.
Ignazio Corrao is an independent Italian politician and he is a member of the European Parliament since 2014. Corrao was born in Rome and grew up in Alcamo,Sicily.
Federico Pizzarotti is an Italian politician who served as mayor of Parma from 2012 to 2022. Elected mayor as a member of the Five Star Movement,which he had first joined in 2009,he successfully ran for re-election in 2017 through a civic list,after dissent within the M5S. He was the first M5S mayor in a provincial capital of Italy,after being elected on 21 May 2012 with 60.22% of votes in a runoff election. He was re-elected with 57.87% of the votes.
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 right-wing 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.
Marco Zanni is an Italian politician who has presided over the Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament since 2019. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014,first elected as a member of the Five Star Movement,then reelected for the League in 2019.
The 2019 European Parliament election in Italy were held on 26 May 2019,electing members of the 9th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the European elections held across the European Union.
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.
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.
Andrea Cozzolino is an Italian politician who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. Cozzolino began his political career in the 1970s with the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI). He then joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and its legal successor parties,including the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS),the Democrats of the Left (DS),and the Democratic Party (PD). From 2005 to 2009,he was Assessor for Agriculture and Productive Activities in the Campania region.
Fabio Massimo Castaldo is an Italian politician who has served in the European Parliament since 2014. On 15 November 2017,he was elected Vice-President of the European Parliament;in doing so,he replaced Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and became the youngest vice-president in the history of the institution. As a member of the European Parliament (MEP),he sat on the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy parliamentary group from 1 July 2014 to 15 October 2014,and again from 20 October 2014 and 1 July 2019,and was a non-attached member (Non-Inscrits) from 16 October 2014 to 19 October 2014.
Carlo Fidanza is an Italian politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019,previously holding a seat from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of Brothers of Italy (FdI).
The 2019 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that occurred between August and September 2019. It includes the events that follow the announcement of the Minister of the Interior and leader of the League,Matteo Salvini,that he would revoke League's support of the cabinet and ask the President of the Republic to call a snap election. This provoked the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte,and resulted in the formation of a new cabinet led by Conte himself.
The 2020 Emilia-Romagna regional election took place in Emilia-Romagna,Italy,on 26 January 2020. The result was the victory of the centre-left coalition and the confirmation of Stefano Bonaccini as President of Emilia-Romagna,with more than 51% of votes,nearly doubling the number of votes received in 2014.
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 2020 Italian by-elections were 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.
