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 is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Elly Schlein,elected in the 2023 leadership election,while the party's president is Stefano Bonaccini.
Movement for the Left was a socialist political party in Italy. It emerged as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party and later merged into Left Ecology Freedom. Its leader was Nichi Vendola.
The Bertinottiani were an Italian political faction around Fausto Bertinotti,the leader of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) from 1994 to 2006.
The Italian Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups:Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists,the faction of the New Italian Socialist Party led by Gianni De Michelis,The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi,Democracy and Socialism of Gavino Angius,the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci,Socialism is Freedom of Rino Formica and some other minor organisations. Until October 2009,the party was known as Socialist Party.
Refoundation for the Left was a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party,a political party in Italy. Most of its members launched the Movement for the Left (MpS) in late January 2009. Another part of its members decided not to leave the Party,"going on with the Refoudation process".
Left Ecology Freedom was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party.
The 2012 Italian centre-left primary election determined the leader of the coalition Italy. Common Good,who will stand as common candidate for the office of Prime Minister in the subsequent general election,which took place on 24–25 February 2013. It was won with 61% of the votes by Pier Luigi Bersani,who defeated Matteo Renzi in the run-off.
Paolo Ferrero is an Italian politician. He is a leading member of the Communist Refoundation Party,and served as Minister of Social Solidarity from 2006 to 2008 as part of the Prodi II Cabinet.
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 collection of radical social movements.
Freedom and Rights,whose complete name is Freedom and Rights –European Socialists as a reference to the Party of European Socialists (PES),is a democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Before joining the PD in October 2014,LeD was active mainly as a sub-group within the Mixed Group in the Chamber of Deputies. LeD's leader is Gennaro Migliore.
Giuseppe "Pippo" Civati is an Italian politician and publisher,former leader of Possible and a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018.
Possible is a left-wing political party in Italy,launched in Rome on 21 June 2015. The party's founder is Giuseppe Civati,a former prominent member of the Democratic Party (PD). Possible's progressive platform is a mixture of social democracy,democratic socialism,green politics,liberalism and elements of participatory democracy.
Future to the Left was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Its leader was Stefano Fassina.
Italian Left is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies,including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL),dissidents from the Democratic Party like Future to the Left,and splinters from the Five Star Movement. At its launch,SI included 32 deputies,who were soon followed by 8 senators,and 2 MEPs. SI was officially formed as a full-fledged party in February 2017,after SEL had chosen to merge into it in December 2016.
Michele Emiliano is an Italian politician and former judge. He is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015,and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a populist and regionalist politician.
The 2017 Italian Left leadership election was a congressional primary election held on 17,18 and 19 February 2017.
Article One,officially Article 1 –Democratic and Progressive Movement,was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
Arturo Scotto is an Italian politician.
Dario Stefano is an Italian politician. Graduated in Economy,Stefano is a member of the Apulian division of the General Confederation of Italian Industry and taught Economics and Industrial Accounting at the University of Salento.
