Mario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013,leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
The Union of the Centre,whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats",is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. Lorenzo Cesa is the party's current secretary;Pier Ferdinando Casini was for years the most recognisable figure and de facto leader of the party,before eventually distancing from it in 2016. The UdC is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Centrist Democrat International (CDI),of which Casini was president from 2004 to 2015.
Enrico Letta is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014,leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. He was the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) from March 2021 to March 2023.
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.
Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist,statistician and academic,member of the Club of Rome. Since February 2021,he has been serving as Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility in the Draghi Government. From April 2013 to February 2014,he served as Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta Government. From 2009 to 2013,he held the office of President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat).
Giampaolo Di Paola is an Italian naval officer who served in the government of Italy as minister of defense from November 2011 to April 2013. He was the Italian military's Chief of Staff from 10 March 2004 to 8 February 2008 and served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2008 to 2011.
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019,having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018,with a brief interruption in 2017.
Populars for Italy is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy led by Mario Mauro,minister of Defence in Letta Cabinet and,previously,long-serving MEP for Forza Italia.
Annamaria Cancellieri is an Italian official and prefect who served as Minister of Interior in the Monti Cabinet and Minister of Justice in the Letta Cabinet.
Civic Choice was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy founded by Mario Monti. The party was formed in the run-up of the 2013 general election to support the outgoing Prime Minister Monti and continue his political agenda. In the election SC was part of a centrist coalition named With Monti for Italy,along with Union of the Centre of Pier Ferdinando Casini and Future and Freedom of Gianfranco Fini.
The Letta government was the 62nd government of the Italian Republic. In office from 28 April 2013 to 22 January 2014,it comprised ministers of the Democratic Party (PD),The People of Freedom (PdL),Civic Choice (SC),the Union of the Centre (UdC),one of the Italian Radicals (RI) and three non-party independents.
Cécile Kashetu Kyenge is an Italian politician and ophthalmologist. She was the Minister for Integration in the 2013–14 Letta Cabinet. From 2014 until 2019,she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Kyenge is of Congolese descent.
Graziano Delrio is an Italian medical doctor and politician,who served in the government of Italy as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport from 2 April 2015 to 1 June 2018. He previously served as the state secretary to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. He was minister for regional affairs and autonomy from 28 April 2013 to 22 February 2014 as part of the Letta Cabinet. He also served as the mayor of Reggio Emilia.
Beatrice Lorenzin is an Italian politician belonging to the Democratic Party,former leader of Popular Alternative,and former Minister of Health from 28 April 2013 to 1 June 2018,in the governments of Enrico Letta,Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni. In 2018 she became one of the longest-serving health minister in the history of the Italian Republic.
Trentino Project is a regionalist and Christian-democratic political party in Trentino,Italy.
For Italy was the name of two centrist and mainly Christian-democratic parliamentary groups active in each house of the Italian Parliament:the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Solidary Democracy is a Christian-leftist political party in Italy. The party's early leader,Lorenzo Dellai has described it as a "Christian-social" party. DemoS is led by Paolo Ciani;several party members,including Ciani himself,hail from the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Popular Alternative is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy that was founded on 18 March 2017 after the dissolution of New Centre-Right (NCD),one of the two parties that emerged at the break-up of The People of Freedom. "Popular" is a reference to popolarismo,the Italian variety of Christian democracy. The party has been a member of the European People's Party (EPP) since its foundation,having inherited the membership of the NCD.
Irene Tinagli is an Italian Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She serves as chairperson of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Action is a liberal political party in Italy. Its leader is Carlo Calenda,a member of the European Parliament within the group of Renew Europe and former minister of Economic Development.
