The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
The Italian Republican Party is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Italy. Founded in 1895,the PRI is the oldest political party still active in Italy.
The Party of Italian Communists was a communist party in Italy founded in October 1998 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) led by Armando Cossutta,the founder and early leader of the PRC. In December 2014,the party was transformed into Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I),which would later evolve into the re-edition of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
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.
Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. He is one of the first openly LGBT Italian politicians and the first openly LGBT heads of a regional government in Italy.
The Democratic Party of the Left was a democratic socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party,the party was the largest in the Alliance of Progressives and The Olive Tree coalitions. In February 1998,the party merged with minor parties to form Democrats of the Left.
Luciano Violante is an Italian judge and politician,Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2008. He is particularly interested in questions of justice,the struggle against the Mafia and institutional reform.
Benedetto Della Vedova is an Italian politician.
Fabio Mussi is an Italian politician,formerly Minister of University and Research in the Prodi II Cabinet. A former member of Italian Communist Party and then Democrats of the Left,he became a lead founding member of the Democratic Left. Currently Mussi is a member of Left Ecology Freedom,which the Democratic Left merged into in 2010.
Gavino Angius is an Italian politician.
The 1987 Italian general election was held in Italy on 14–15 June 1987. This election was the first Italian election in which the distance between the Christian Democrats and the Communists grew significantly instead of decreasing. Two parties that had not previously been in parliament won representation:the Greens with thirteen seats,and the Northern League with two.
The 1992 Italian general election was held on 5 and 6 April 1992. They were the first without the traditionally second most important political force in Italian politics,the Italian Communist Party (PCI),which had been disbanded in 1991. Most of its members split between the more democratic-socialist oriented Democratic Party of the Left (PDS),while a minority who did not want to renounce the communist tradition became the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC);however,between them they gained around 4% less than what the already declining PCI had obtained in the 1987 Italian general election,despite PRC absorbing the disbanded Proletarian Democracy (DP).
Antonio Bassolino,Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian politician. He has been President of the Campania region from 2000 to 2010 and Mayor of Naples from 1993 to 2000.
The Prodi II Cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008,a total of 722 days,or 1 year,11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic,it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislature.
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). The media has referred to him as Leader Maximo due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic.
Giovanni "Gianni" Cuperlo is an Italian politician,a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and former President of the Democratic Party.
Claudio Petruccioli is an Italian politician and journalist. A member of the Italian Communist Party until 1991,he has been president of Italian state-owned network,RAI,from 2005 to 2009.
Andrea Orlando is an Italian politician who has been serving as Minister of Labour and Social Policies since February 2021 under Prime Minister Mario Draghi. From 2013 to 2018 he served in the Cabinet as Minister of the Environment under Enrico Letta and as Minister of Justice under Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni from 2014 to 2018. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party from 2019 to 2021.
The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo,who replaced Paolo Ferrero in 2017. Armando Cossutta was the party's founder,while Fausto Bertinotti its longest-serving leader (1994–2008). The latter transformed the PRC from a traditional communist party into a collector of radical social movements.
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 ruled the country for more than thirteen years between 1996 and 2021.
