Primary elections were first introduced in Italy by Lega Nord in 1995,but were seldom used until before the 2005 regional elections.
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.
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.
Giorgio Gori is an Italian entrepreneur,journalist,and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former mayor of Bergamo.
Antonio Cicchetti is an Italian politician,three times mayor of Rieti,and a member of Forza Italia.
Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna is an Italian politician.
Michele Conti is an Italian politician.
Dario De Luca is an Italian politician. A member of the right-wing party Brothers of Italy,De Luca was elected mayor of Potenza on 8 June 2014 and took office on 23 June 2014. He was the first right-wing mayor of Potenza,the first to come from the centre-right coalition,and the first Brothers of Italy member to become mayor of a regional capital in Italy. Despite this,he was able to attract the support of the opposition,having to rely on them to have a majority in the city council. In early 2015,De Luca initially resigned but soon retracted after gaining support in the city council. He did not run for re-election in 2019.
Francesco Persiani is an Italian politician. A member of Lega,he is the mayor of Massa since June 2018. In March 2023,he resigned after the city council passed a motion of no confidence but was re-elected in May 2023.
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.
Francesco Acquaroli is an Italian politician of the Brothers of Italy (FdI).
Sandro Parcaroli is an Italian entrepreneur and politician.
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.
Volt Italy is an Eurofederalist political party in Italy. It is an affiliate of Volt Europa and was founded in 2018. Volt was unable to take part in the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy,failing to obtain the required 150,000 notarised supporter signatures. Since then,the party has contested municipal and regional elections,winning a number of mandates and providing a deputy mayor since October 2021.
Roberto Lagalla,is an Italian politician and academic,who has been mayor of Palermo since 2022.
Riccardo Mastrangeli is an Italian politician,Mayor of Frosinone since 2022.
