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.
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.
The Renziani was a liberal area within the Democratic Party (PD) composed of the followers of Matteo Renzi,party's former national secretary and former Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 to December 2016. This area also took the name of Now! (Adesso!) and Big Bang. In September 2019,Renzi founded his own movement,Italia Viva (IV),exiting from the PD.
Freedom and Rights,whose complete name is Freedom and Rights –European Socialists as a reference to the Party of European Socialists (PES),is a democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Before joining the PD in October 2014,LeD was active mainly as a sub-group within the Mixed Group in the Chamber of Deputies. LeD's leader is Gennaro Migliore.
Possible is a left-wing political party in Italy,launched in Rome on 21 June 2015. The party's founder is Giuseppe Civati,a former prominent member of the Democratic Party (PD). Possible's progressive platform is a mixture of social democracy,democratic socialism,green politics,liberalism and elements of participatory democracy.
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.
Future to the Left was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Its leader was Stefano Fassina.
Carlo Calenda is an Italian business executive and politician. On 2 May 2013,he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development in the government of Enrico Letta,and was later confirmed in that post in the cabinet of Letta's successor,Matteo Renzi.
The 2017 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 30 April 2017. The three candidates were Matteo Renzi,former Prime Minister and party secretary until February 2017,Michele Emiliano,President of Apulia,and Andrea Orlando,the Minister of Justice. Renzi was elected by a landslide 70%,and appointed Maurizio Martina as his deputy secretary.
Marco Minniti is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the government of Italy as Minister of the Interior from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. Previously,he was one of the most prominent councilors of former Prime Ministers Matteo Renzi and Massimo D'Alema.
More Europe is a liberal and pro-European political party in Italy,part of the centre-left coalition and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
Harambee was a centrist and social liberal faction,with roots in the Christian left,within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Most of its members hailed from the Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy (DL).
Italia in Comune is a green and progressive political party in Italy. It was founded in April 2018 by mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti,other former members of the Five Star Movement and local non-party independent politicians generally affiliated with the centre-left coalition.
The 2019 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 3 March 2019. The election was triggered by the resignation of Matteo Renzi on 12 March 2018,following the party's defeat at the 2018 general election. Vice Secretary Maurizio Martina was appointed Secretary in July 2018 by the National Assembly,but he resigned after few months to officially start the party's congress.
The 2019 European Parliament election in Italy were held on 26 May 2019,electing members of the 9th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the European elections held across the European Union.
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.
Italia Viva is a liberal political party in Italy founded in September 2019. The party is led by Matteo Renzi,a former Prime Minister of Italy and former secretary of the Democratic Party (PD). As of 2021,Italia Viva is a member of the European Democratic Party.
The 2021 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that began in January 2021 and ended the following month. It includes the events that follow the announcement of Matteo Renzi,leader of Italia Viva (IV) and former Prime Minister,that he would revoke IV's support to the Government of Giuseppe Conte.
Europeanists is a political party in Italy. Amid a government crisis triggered after Matteo Renzi announced that he would revoke Italia Viva's support to the government of Giuseppe Conte,Europeanists formed on 27 January 2021 as a component of a joint parliamentary group in the Italian Senate,with the aim to support Conte's cabinet.
Democratic Party –Democratic and Progressive Italy is the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party (PD) and minor allied parties in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic,formed in October 2022. Prior to the formation of the group,its name was that of the lead electoral list of the centre-left coalition in the 2022 Italian general election.
