The Five Star Movement is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte,Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo,a political activist and comedian,and Gianroberto Casaleggio,a web strategist. The party is primarily described as populist,of the syncretic kind,due to its members' insistence that it has no place in the left–right political spectrum. The party is a proponent of green politics,progressivism and direct democracy.
Luigi Di Maio is an Italian politician who has been serving as EU Special Representative for the Gulf region since 1 June 2023. Di Maio also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022,as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development,Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019,and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the 17th Italian legislature.
Maurizio Martina is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies,who served as secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from March to November 2018,being appointed after the 2018 Italian general election. He served as Minister of Agricultural,Food and Forestry Policies since 22 February 2014,in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni. On 7 May 2017,he was elected Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party. Martina resigned as Agriculture Minister and took over as acting secretary of the PD after Matteo Renzi resigned following a poor election showing in 2018.
Roberto Fico is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Five Star Movement,and has been serving as President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022. Previously,he was the Chairman of the RAI Supervision Commission from 2013 to 2018.
The 2017 Five Star Movement leadership election was an Italian online primary election held on 21 September 2017 that determined the M5S candidate to the premiership for the 2018 Italian general election.
In the 2018 Italian general election,no political group or party won an outright majority,resulting in a hung parliament. On 4 March,the centre-right coalition,in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force,won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate,while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes. The centre-left coalition,led by Matteo Renzi and the then-governing Democratic Party (PD),came third. Protracted negotiations were required before a government formation could be ultimated.
The first Conte government was the 65th government of the Italian Republic. It was led by Giuseppe Conte,an independent,and it was in office from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019.
Vincenzo Spadafora is an Italian politician. A member of Together for the Future (IpF) and a former member of the Five Star Movement (M5S),he served as Minister for Youth Policies in the Conte government between 2019 and 2021.
The 2020 Italian by-elections were called to fill seats in the Parliament that became vacant after the 2018 general elections. In 2020,by-elections were held for the Chamber of Deputies the Senate of the Republic.
Manlio Di Stefano is an Italian MP from the Five Star Movement.
Rosalba Cimino is an Italian politician from the Five Star Movement. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022.
Together for the Future was a centrist political party in Italy,which for all of its existence was active solely as a parliamentary group. Its founder and leader was Luigi Di Maio. All of its parliamentary members were elected for the Five Star Movement (M5S) in the 2018 Italian general election but exited from the party in June 2022,when the M5S's former leader Di Maio decided to form his own political group,following tensions with M5S leader Giuseppe Conte.
Andrea Mura is an Italian sailor and former politician.
Giuseppe L'Abbate is an Italian politician.
Roberto Traversi is an Italian politician.
Azzurra Pia Maria Cancelleri is an Italian politician,a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Five Star Movement from 2013 to 2022.
Alessandro Amitrano is an Italian politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic. During his tenure,he held the position of secretary within the Chamber of Deputies. He was initially elected as a member of the 5 Star Movement and later joined the Together for the Future party in 2022 after Luigi Di Maio's split.
Federica Daga is an Italian politician. She served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the 17th and 18th legislatures of the Italian Republic. Initially elected as a representative of the 5 Star Movement,she later joined the Together for the Future party in 2022 following Luigi Di Maio's split.
Giovanni Luca Aresta is an Italian politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic. Initially elected as a representative of the 5 Star Movement,he later joined the Together for the Future party in 2022 following Luigi Di Maio's split.
Marialuisa Faro is an Italian politician and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic representing the Five Star Movement.
