National Alliance was a conservative political party in Italy. It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI),a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology,a move known as post-fascismo,during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995.
Francesco Maurizio Cossiga was an Italian politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Party of Italy,he was prime minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and the president of Italy from 1985 to 1992. Cossiga is widely considered one of the most prominent and influential politicians of the First Republic.
The New Italian Socialist Party or New PSI,more recently styled as Liberal Socialists –NPSI,is a political party in Italy which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the historical Italian Socialist Party,which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s.
The Federation of the Greens,frequently referred to as Greens (Verdi),was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federation of Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens.
Francesco Rutelli is an Italian journalist and former politician,who is the president of Anica,National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry,since October 2016. He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile". He was during 15 years co-president of the European Democratic Party,a centrist European political party and he is now President of the Institute of European Democrats,EDP political foundation. He has been Mayor of Rome 1994–2001,and president of the centrist party Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy 2002–2007. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi 2006–2008. Currently he also chairs PrioritàCultura;Incontro di Civiltà;Videocittà,Moving Images Festival.
Gianni De Michelis was an Italian politician,prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI),who served as minister in many Italian governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The Italian Socialist Party was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist political party in Italy,whose history stretched for longer than a century,making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892,the PSI was from the beginning a big tent of Italy's political left and socialism,ranging from the revolutionary socialism of Andrea Costa to the Marxist-inspired reformist socialism of Filippo Turati and the anarchism of Anna Kuliscioff. Under Turati's leadership,the party was a frequent ally of the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Radical Party at the parliamentary level,while lately entering in dialogue with the remnants of the Historical Left and the Liberal Union during Giovanni Giolitti's governments to ensure representation for the labour movement and the working class. In the 1900s and 1910s,the PSI achieved significant electoral success,becoming Italy's first party in 1919 and during the country's Biennio Rosso in 1921,when it was victim of violent paramilitary activities from the far right,and was not able to move the country in the revolutionary direction it wanted.
Antonio Ruberti was an Italian politician and engineer. He was a member of the Italian Government and a European Commissioner as well as a professor of engineering at La Sapienza University.
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.
Ugo La Malfa was an Italian politician and an important leader of the Italian Republican Party.
Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini is an Italian economist and politician. He is a university professor in applied economics,and was Chancellor of the LUISS University of Rome (1984–1992). He was President of the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996 and Minister of Defence from 1998 to 2000.
The Federation of Green Lists or Green List was a green political party in Italy. Its members included Gianni Francesco Mattioli,Lino De Benetti,Gianfranco Amendola,Alexander Langer,Enrico Falqui,Sauro Turroni and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. The Green Lists used the Smiling Sun symbol of the anti-nuclear movement,which was inherited by its successor party,the Federation of the Greens.
Giovanna Melandri is an Italian politician. She was an MP in the Italian Parliament for 18 years (1994–2012) and held the positions of Minister of Culture (1998–2001) and Minister of Youth and Sport (2006–2008). She is the president of MAXXI,the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts of Rome,and the founder and chairwoman of the Human Foundation.
Chicco Testa is an Italian politician. He graduated in philosophy at the UniversitàStatale in Milan (1976). He lives in Rome and has two sons.
Gianni Vernetti is a writer and Italian politician.
Giovanni "Gianni" Cuperlo is an Italian politician,a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and former President of the Democratic Party.
Legambiente is an Italian environmentalist association with roots in the anti-nuclear movement that developed in Italy and throughout the Western world in the second half of the '70s. Founded in 1980 as part of the ARCI,it later became a stand-alone organisation. Originally known as Lega per l'ambiente,it changed name during the IV National Congress held in Parma in 1992. The mission of the association is to make the environmental culture the centre of a new kind of development and diffused well-being. Important values for the association are the improvement of environmental quality,the fight against all forms of pollution,a wise use of natural resources,the construction of a more balanced relationship between human beings and the nature. It is considered the most widespread environmental organisation in Italy,as it is composed by a national headquarter in Rome,20 regional branches,about 1000 local groups and more than 115,000 members.
Stefano Parisi is an Italian businessman and politician,General Secretary of Confindustria for 4 years and founder of Energies for Italy,a political party member of the centre-right coalition.
Francesco D'Onofrio is an Italian politician and academic,former Minister of Public Education in the Berlusconi I Cabinet.
Giuseppe "Pino" Pisicchio is an Italian politician,journalist,essayist and professor.
