Adana Province is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana,home to 78.25% of the residents of the province. Its area is 13,844 km2,and its population is 2,274,106 (2022). It is also closely associated with other Cilician provinces of Mersin,Osmaniye,and (northern) Hatay.
A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely,if ever,wins. Perennial candidates are most common where there is no limit on the number of times that a person can run for office and little cost to register as a candidate.
Sepp Kusstatscher is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Federation of the Greens,part of the European Greens and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Furthermore,he is speaker of the Green Party of South Tyrol.
Alfonso Andria is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Margherita Party,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
Frederika Marie Joseph "Frieda" Brepoels is a Belgian politician of N-VA,former mayor of Bilzen and former Member of the European Parliament for Flanders.
Mercedes Bresso is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as Member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2019 and again from 2023 following the departure of Pierfrancesco Majorino. She retained her seat in the 2024 European Parliament election and became the eldest serving MEP.
Patrizia Toia is an Italian politician and member of the European Parliament for North-West with Democratic Party,part of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Riccardo Ventre is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Forza Italia,part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Mauro Zani is an Italian politician.
Sebastiano "Nello" Musumeci is a right-wing Italian politician. Musumeci is serving as Minister for Civil Protection and Maritime Policies since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni. He previously served as president of Sicily from 18 November 2017 until 13 October 2022.
Zita Pleštinská is a Slovak politician and current mayor of the village of Chmeľnica. Pleštinskáis a former Member of the European Parliament with the Slovenskádemokratickáa kresťanskáúnia,part of the European People's Party. She was on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality,and also served as a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development,as a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and as a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
Flavio Zanonato is an Italian politician. He is the former mayor of Padua.
Roberta Pinotti is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as the Italian Minister of Defence in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni from 22 February 2014 to 1 June 2018.
Alessandra Moretti is an Italian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Nicola Danti is an Italian politician who has been serving –with a brief interruption –as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 elections. He is a member of Italia Viva and he is vice-president of the Renew Europe Group at the European Parliament.
Gordana Čomić is a Serbian politician. A long-time member of the Democratic Party (DS),she was excluded from the party in 2020 after openly opposing the DS's boycott of the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. She later served as Serbia's minister for human and minority rights and social dialogue in Ana Brnabić's administration from 2020 to 2022.
Vito Santarsiero is an Italian politician. Santarsiero began his political career as a member of Christian Democracy (DC). He joined the Italian People's Party (PPI) in 1994 and then Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy (DL) in 2002. In 2007,he was a founding member of the Democratic Party (PD).
Mathedi Asnath Molekwa is a South African politician who is a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from the North West,serving since 2019. Molekwa is the former speaker of the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality in the North West Province. She is a member of the African National Congress.
Đorđe Đukić is a former politician in Serbia. He was the president of the executive council of Vojvodina from 2000 to 2004. He also served at different times in the Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,the National Assembly of Serbia,and the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro,as well as being the mayor of Žabalj from 1996 to 2000. Originally a member of the Democratic Party,he joined the Liberal Democratic Party following a split in 2005 and later affiliated with the United Regions of Serbia.
The 2023 Democratic Party leadership election was a primary election that was held in Italy in February 2023 to elect the National Assembly and secretary of the Italian Democratic Party (PD). It consisted of a closed primary election among party members held from 9 to 19 February,and an open primary election held on 26 February.
