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 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 Southern Action League is a regionalist far-right Italian political party active in Apulia,especially in Taranto.
Responsible Autonomy is a centrist to centre-right political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia,Italy.
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.
Paolo Dosi is an Italian politician who served as Mayor of Piacenza from 2012 to 2017.
Alessandro Tambellini is an Italian politician.
Rinaldo Melucci is an Italian politician.
Carlo Salvemini is an Italian politician,Mayor of Lecce from June 2017 to January 2019 and again from May 2019 to June 2024.
Italia in Comune is a green and progressive political party in Italy. It was founded in April 2018 by mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti,other former members of the Five Star Movement and local non-party independent politicians generally affiliated with the centre-left coalition.
Raffaele Stancanelli is an Italian politician.
Giancarlo Cito is an Italian politician and entrepreneur,former mayor of Taranto.
Matteo Ricci is an Italian politician and former mayor of Pesaro. He began his career in the Democrats of the Left (DS). From 2009 to 2014,he was also the president of the province of Pesaro and Urbino with the Democratic Party (PD). After being elected mayor in 2014,he was re-elected in 2019.
Municipal elections took place in Rome on 3–4 October 2021 and 17–18 October 2021. Open for election were the office of Mayor of Rome and all the 48 seats of the City Council,as well as the presidents and councils of each of the fifteen municipi in which the city is divided.
The municipal elections in Naples took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent Mayor of Naples was Luigi de Magistris of Democracy and Autonomy,who won the 2016 Naples municipal election.
The 2021 Turin municipal election took place in Turin,Italy,on 3 and 4 October 2021,to elect the mayor and the 38 members of the Turin city council. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round,a runoff was held on 17 and 18 October 2021. The second round was won by the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo,member of the Democratic Party,who was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021. The incumbent mayor of Turin,Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement,did not run for re-election.
The municipal elections in Bologna took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent Mayor of Bologna was Virginio Merola of Democratic Party,who won the 2016 Bologna municipal election. The centre-left candidate Matteo Lepore won in a landslide with 62% of votes,becoming the most voted mayor since the introduction of direct elections in 1995.
Jamil Sadegholvaad is an Italian politician,who has served as mayor of Rimini since 7 October 2021 and as president of the Province of Rimini since 25 November 2022.
