Leoluca Bagarella is an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia. He is from the town of Corleone. Following Salvatore Riina's arrest in early 1993,Bagarella became the head of the stragist strategy faction,opposing another faction commanded by the successor designate Bernardo Provenzano,creating a real rift in Cosa Nostra. Bagarella was captured in 1995,having been a fugitive for four years,and sentenced to life imprisonment for Mafia association and multiple murders.
The Movement for Autonomy is a regionalist and Christian-democratic political party in Italy,based in Sicily. The MpA,whose founder and leader is Raffaele Lombardo,advocates for greater economic development,autonomy and legislative powers for Sicily and the other regions of southern Italy.
Angelino Alfano is an Italian former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
Salvatore "Totò" Cuffaro is a former Italian politician and former President of Sicily. He has served an almost 5-year jail sentence for aiding Cosa Nostra. He has earned the nickname Vasa Vasa for his tendency to kiss all and sundry;he says that he has kissed a quarter of all the people on the island.
Piersanti Mattarella was an Italian politician who was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily. A member of Christian Democracy,he was the older brother of Sergio Mattarella,who has been President of Italy since 2015.
Bernardo Mattarella was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party. He was a cabinet minister of Italy several times,becoming one of the most important politicians of his generation.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who is currently serving as the 12th President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023,Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
The Sicilian People's Movement was a regional centrist political party active in Sicily,Italy. It was founded in 2012 by the merge of Allied for Sicily and some civic associations. Riccardo Savona was elected president of the party. ApS was in turn formed in May 2011 by former members of PdL,UDC and PD in support of Raffaele Lombardo's regional government. The party,which at its foundation counted 6 regional deputies,was a close ally of the Movement for the Autonomies.
Rosario Crocetta is an Italian politician. He was the first openly gay mayor in Italy when he became Mayor of Gela in 2003,a post he held until 2009.
Cantiere Popolare is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy,based in Sicily.
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament,even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition,and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.
Pietro Grasso,also known as Piero Grasso,is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013 to 2018.
Sicilian nationalism,or Sicilianism,is a movement in the autonomous Italian region of Sicily,as well as the Sicilian diaspora,which seeks greater autonomy or outright independence from Italy,and/or promotes further inclusion of the Sicilian identity,culture,history,and linguistic variety.
Future Sicily is a regional political party active in Sicily,Italy,led by former minister Salvatore Cardinale,whose daughter Daniela Cardinale was a deputy of the Democratic Party (PD).
The Liberal Popular Alliance,whose full name was Liberal Popular Alliance –Autonomies,was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. ALA members were known as Verdiniani,from the name of their leader Denis Verdini,who was formerly a long-time member and national coordinator of three successive centre-right parties led by Silvio Berlusconi until July 2015,when he broke with Berlusconi in order to support the government led by Matteo Renzi,leader of the centre-left Democratic Party.
The Network 2018 was a centre-left political party in Italy led by Leoluca Orlando,former leading member of Christian Democracy in Sicily,founder of The Network and The Democrats,and five-time mayor of Palermo.
Gianfranco Miccichè is an Italian politician.
Cateno Roberto Salvatore De Luca is an Italian politician who has been the mayor of Messina from 2018 to 2022 and the mayor of Taormina since 2023. He was also the mayor of Fiumedinisi,his hometown,from 2003 to 2011 and of Santa Teresa di Riva from 2012 to 2017.
Marco Zambuto is an Italian politician.
Sicilian Spring was a political party active in Sicily.
