Italy of Values is a populist and anti-corruption political party in Italy. The party was founded in 1998 by former Mani pulite prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro,who entered politics in 1996 and finally left the party in 2014. IdV has aimed at gathering and giving voice to different sectors of the Italian society. From the beginning of its existence one of its major issues has been the so-called "moral issue". In the early 2010s,IdV was eclipsed by the new-born Five Star Movement,founded by comedian Beppe Grillo,which used the same populist and anti-corruption rhetoric.
A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely,if ever,wins. Perennial candidates are most common where there is no limit on the number of times that a person can run for office and little cost to register as a candidate.
Sergio Chiamparino is an Italian politician. He was the mayor of Turin from 2001 to 2011,and the president of Piedmont from 2014 to 2019. He is also the author of several books,including Semplicemente sindaco,La sfida. Oltre il Pd per tornare a vincere. Anche al Nord (2010),Cordata con sindaco,and TAV. Perchésì.
Leoluca Orlando is an Italian politician. He was mayor of Palermo for over twenty years and was president of the Italian Federation of American Football (FIDAF). He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia during his mayoralty in the 1980s,which was publicly referenced in the media as the Palermo Spring.
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.
The Italian Liberal Party is a minor liberal political party in Italy,which considers itself to be the successor of the original Italian Liberal Party (PLI),the Italian main centre-right liberal party that was active in different capacities from 1922 to 1994. Originally named the Liberal Party,the new PLI changed its name in 2004 and is not represented in the Italian Parliament.
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.
The Abruzzo regional election of 2008 took place on 14–15 December 2008,due to the early resignation of President Ottaviano Del Turco,after his indictment for alleged corruption. The election was to take place on 30 November–1 December,but was postponed because of legal issues over the ammission of the list of For the Common Good.
Guido Crosetto is an Italian businessman and politician,who has been serving as Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni.
The Abruzzo regional election of 2014 took place on 25 May 2014.
Luciano D'Alfonso is an Italian politician,a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2022. He was the mayor of Pescara from 2003 to 2009. He served as the president of Abruzzo from 2014 to 2018,and as a senator from 2018 to 2022.
Federico Pizzarotti is an Italian politician who served as mayor of Parma from 2012 to 2022. Elected mayor as a member of the Five Star Movement,which he had first joined in 2009,he successfully ran for re-election in 2017 through a civic list,after dissent within the M5S. He was the first M5S mayor in a provincial capital of Italy,after being elected on 21 May 2012 with 60.22% of votes in a runoff election. He was re-elected with 57.87% of the votes.
The 2019 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 3 March 2019. The election was triggered by the resignation of Matteo Renzi on 12 March 2018,following the party's defeat at the 2018 general election. Vice Secretary Maurizio Martina was appointed Secretary in July 2018 by the National Assembly,but he resigned after few months to officially start the party's congress.
Raffaele Stancanelli is an Italian politician.
Giorgio Guazzaloca was an Italian politician. He was the mayor of Bologna from 1999 to 2004.
Sandro Biasotti is an Italian entrepreneur and politician,former President of Liguria from 2000 to 2005.
Emilio Del Bono is an Italian politician from the Democratic Party and former mayor of Brescia.
Marco Marsilio has been President of Abruzzo since 23 February 2019.
The Green Front,whose complete name is Green Front –Independent Ecologists,is a green political party in Italy,led by Vincenzo Galizia,a former leader of the "National Youth".
