Romano Antonio Prodi is an Italian politician,economist,academic,senior civil servant,and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prime Minister of Italy,first from 18 May 1996 to 21 October 1998,and then from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the so-called Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.
The Pensioners' Party is a centrist Italian political party,whose aim is to represent the interests of pensioners.
The 2006 Italian general election was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi,leader of the centre-left coalition The Union,narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. Initial exit polls suggested a victory for Prodi,but the results narrowed as the count progressed. On 11 April 2006,Prodi declared victory;Berlusconi never conceded defeat explicitly but this is not required by the Italian law.
Fausto Bertinotti is an Italian politician who led the Communist Refoundation Party from 1994 to 2006. On 29 April 2006,after the centre-left coalition's victory in the Italian general election,he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies,a position he held until 2008.
Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and was Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD),Italy's leading centre-left party,from 2009 to 2013. Bersani was Minister of Industry,Commerce and Craftmanship from 1996 to 1999,Minister of Transport from 1999 to 2001,and Minister of Economic Development from 2006 to 2008.
The Christian People's Party is a center-right and conservative political party based on the principles of Christian democracy. It was founded in 1966 by a group of Peruvian Christian Democrat Party dissidents,led by Luis Bedoya Reyes.
The 1996 Italian general election was held on 21 April 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. Romano Prodi,leader of the centre-left The Olive Tree,won the election,narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi,who led the centre-right Pole for Freedoms.
Giorgio Napolitano is an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015,and the first Italian president to be re-elected to the presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics,some critics have sometimes referred to him as Re Giorgio. In office from 2006 to 2015,he is the longest serving president in the history of the modern Italian Republic,which has been in existence since 1946.
Vittorio Michele Craxi,commonly known as Bobo Craxi,is an Italian politician,son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.
Lega Alpina Lumbarda was a left-wing regionalist political party in Italy,based in Lombardy. The party,an alternative to Lega Lombarda–Lega Nord,was led by Elidio De Paoli throughout its existence.
On 24 January 2008 Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate by a vote of 161 to 156 votes,causing the downfall of his government. Prodi's resignation led President Giorgio Napolitano to request the president of the Senate,Franco Marini,to assess the possibility to form a caretaker government. The other possibility would have been to call for early elections immediately. Marini acknowledged impossibility to form an interim government due to the unavailability of the centre-right parties,and early elections were scheduled for 13 April and 14 April 2008.
A snap election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the Italian Parliament on 6 February 2008,following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote of confidence and the unsuccessful tentative appointment of Franco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law. Under Italian law,elections must be held within 70 days of the dissolution. The voting determined the leader of Italy's 62nd government since the end of World War II. The coalition led by ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from The People of Freedom party defeated that of former Mayor of Rome,Walter Veltroni of the Democratic Party.
Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 9,2006. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2006 even if,according to the Italian Constitution,every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
Renato Guerino Turano was an Italian and American politician and businessman. He served in the Italian Senate from 2006 to 2008 as a representative of Italian citizens in North America and Central America and was re-elected to the same position in the 2013 Italian general election.
The 2006 Italian general election was the first in the country's history in which Italian and dual citizens living outside the country could vote by postal ballot in international electoral districts. Twelve members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and six members of the Italian Senate were elected in this way.
The 2006 Italian general election was the first in the country's history in which Italian and dual citizens living outside the country could vote by postal ballot in international electoral districts. Twelve members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and six members of the Italian Senate were elected in this way.
The 2013 Italian presidential election was held in Italy on 18–20 April 2013. The result was the re-election of Giorgio Napolitano,the first time a president had been elected for a second term.
Lega per l'Autonomia –Alleanza Lombarda,also known as Lega per l'Autonomia Lombarda,was a left-wing regionalist political party in Italy,based in Lombardy.
The centre-left coalition is an 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 thirteen years between 1996 and 2021.
Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on March 27,1994. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1994 even if,according to the Italian Constitution,every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
