Francesco Cascio (born 17 September 1963) is an Italian politician and dentist.
Cascio was born in Palermo on 17 September 1963. He studied dentistry. Cascio was elected to two terms on the Chamber of Deputies, serving from 1994 to 2001. He then served three consecutive terms as a member of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, from 2001 to 2012. Between 2008 and 2012, Cascio was elevated to the president of the regional assembly. [1] [2]
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, commonly known simply as The Daisy, was a centrist political party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties within the centre-left coalition: the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal. The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition, within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote.
National-level elections in Italy are called periodically to form a parliament consisting of two houses: the Chamber of Deputies with 400 members; and the Senate of the Republic with 200 elected members, plus a few appointed senators for life. Italy is a parliamentary republic: the President of the Republic is elected for a seven-year term by the two houses of Parliament in joint session, together with special electors appointed by the Regional Councils.
Claudio Fava is an Italian politician and writer. He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà. He was until 2009 Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democratic Left (SD), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
Giuseppe Castiglione is an Italian politician. He is the son-in-law of the politician and journalist Giuseppe Firrarello.
Franco Restivo was an Italian politician.
Angelino Alfano is an Italian former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
The Politics of Sicily, Italy takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Sicilian Regional Assembly.
Silvio Milazzo was an Italian Christian Democracy politician and the president of Sicily from 1958 to 1960.
The Populars of Italy Tomorrow was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy whose power base was in Sicily. It is currently affiliated with Forza Italia.
Great South was a centre-right regionalist political party in Italy. The party was at times referred to as Project South.
Francesco Saverio Romano is an Italian politician and lawyer. He served as the minister of agricultures in 2011 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2001 and 2018.
Calogero Antonio Mannino is an Italian politician and lawyer. He has been a member of the Christian Democracy and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. He served in the cabinet of Prime Ministers Spadolini (1981–1982), Fanfani (1982–1983) and Andreotti (1991–1992). He was also member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy in Legislature VII (1976–1979), Legislature VIII (1979–1983), Legislature IX (1983–1987), Legislature X (1987–1992), Legislature XI (1992–1994) and Legislature XVI and member of the Senate in Legislature XV.
Benedetto Majorana della Nicchiara was an Italian politician.
Giuseppe Drago was an Italian physician and politician. He was President of Sicily from January to November 1998.
Salvatore Lauricella was an Italian attorney, politician, and chairman of the Italian Socialist Party.
Gianfranco Miccichè is an Italian politician.
Mario Fasino was an Italian politician, journalist, and one of the co-founders of Christian Democratic Party (DC) in Sicily. He served as the President of the region of Sicily from 20 September 1969 until 22 December 1972. Fasino was elected President of the Sicilian Regional Assembly from 1974 to 1976. In addition to his political career, Fasino, a journalist, was the director of "Voce cattolica", the official publication of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo.
Sergio Antonio D'Antoni is an Italian politician, syndicalist and sports manager, current President of CONI Sicilia.
Giuseppe Montalbano was an Italian politician.
Giovanni Di Mauro, better known as "Roberto", is an Italian politician.