The Union of the Centre,whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats",is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. Lorenzo Cesa is the party's current secretary;Pier Ferdinando Casini was for years the most recognisable figure and de facto leader of the party,before eventually distancing from it in 2016. The UdC is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Centrist Democrat International (CDI),of which Casini was president from 2004 to 2015.
Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. Buttiglione's nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties,resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his conservative Catholic views on homosexuality,despite his assurances that these were only his personal convictions and would not dictate his administration.
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 and an ensuing dispute formed.
Pier Ferdinando Casini is an Italian politician. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2006.
Giorgio Napolitano is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015,the first to be re-elected to the office. 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 and longest-lived president in the history of the modern Italian Republic,which has been in existence since 1946.
Christian Democracy for the Autonomies was a minor Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
Gianfranco Rotondi is an Italian politician and a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
The 2006 Italian presidential election was held on 8–10 May 2006. The result was the election of Giorgio Napolitano,the first time a former member of the Italian Communist Party had been elected to the presidency of the Italian Republic.
Bruno Tabacci is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is the president of the Democratic Centre. In the past,he was member of Christian Democracy and served as the president of Lombardy from 1987 to 1989.
The Sardinian Reformers is a liberal-conservative and regionalist,Christian-democratic political party in Sardinia,led by Michele Cossa. The party,which has always been part of the centre-right at the Sardinian regional level,is a keen supporter of the free market,competition,globalization and a two-party system.
Christian Democracy is a minor Christian democratic and strongly social-conservative political party in Italy. The current leader of the party is Denis Martucci.
The Liberal Populars were a short-lived Christian-democratic political party in Italy (2008–2009),which currently functions as an internal faction of Identity and Action (IdeA).
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.
Alliance of the Centre,whose full name is Alliance of the Centre for the Territories,is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
The centre-right coalition is an alliance of political parties in Italy,active—under several forms and names—since 1994,when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party. Despite its name,the alliance mostly falls on the right-wing of the political spectrum.
Giovanni Toti is an Italian journalist and politician,who has been President of Liguria since June 2015. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament,following the 2014 European Parliament election.
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.
Giuseppe Drago was an Italian physician and politician. He was President of Sicily from January to November 1998.
Giuseppe De Mita is an Italian politician and a nephew of former Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
The 2020 Campanian regional election took place in Campania,Italy,on 20 and 21 September 2020. It was originally scheduled to take place on 31 May 2020,but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.
