The politics of Italy are conducted through a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946,when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum and a constituent assembly was elected to draft a constitution,which was promulgated on 1 January 1948.
Romano Antonio Prodi is an Italian politician,economist,academic,senior civil servant,and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prime Minister of Italy,first from 18 May 1996 to 21 October 1998,and then from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the so-called Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.
The Olive Tree was a denomination used for several successive centre-left political and electoral alliances of Italian political parties from 1995 to 2007.
Lamberto Dini CGMG is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994,Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996,the 51st Prime Minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996,and Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2001.
The 2006 Italian general election was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi,leader of the centre-left coalition The Union,narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. Initial exit polls suggested a victory for Prodi,but the results narrowed as the count progressed. On 11 April 2006,Prodi declared victory;Berlusconi never conceded defeat and an ensuing dispute formed.
The Party of Italian Communists was a communist party in Italy established in October 1998 by splinters from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). The split was led by Armando Cossutta,founder and early leader of the PRC,who opposed Fausto Bertinotti's leaderhip and,especially,his decision to withdraw support from Romano Prodi's first cabinet. In December 2014,the party was transformed into Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I),which would later evolve into the re-edition of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
Fausto Bertinotti is an Italian politician who led the Communist Refoundation Party from 1994 to 2006. On 29 April 2006,after the centre-left coalition's victory in the Italian general election,he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies,a position he held until 2008.
The Union was a heterogenous centre-left political and electoral alliance of political parties in Italy. The Union was the direct heir of The Olive Tree coalition which represented the centre-left in the 1996 and 2001 general elections. However,The Union also included parties of the radical left,which were not affiliated with The Olive Tree. The Union was led by Romano Prodi,Prime Minister of Italy from May 2006 to May 2008,and former President of the European Commission. Collapsing in the wake of the 2008 Italian political crisis,the alliance was succeeded by the current-day centre-left coalition.
Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. He is one of the first openly LGBT Italian politicians and the first openly LGBT heads of a regional government in Italy.
Armando Cossutta was an Italian communist politician.
The 1996 Italian general election was held on 21 April 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. Romano Prodi,leader of the centre-left The Olive Tree,won the election,narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi,who led the centre-right Pole for Freedoms.
The Workers' Communist Party is a communist party in Italy. It was created in 2006 by the Trotskyist breakaway wing of the Communist Refoundation Party led by Marco Ferrando. The PCL is the Italian section of Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International.
The second Prodi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008,a total of 722 days,or 1 year,11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic,it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislature.
Democratic Left,whose complete name was Democratic Left. For European Socialism,was a democratic-socialist political party in Italy.
Luigi Scotti is an Italian former magistrate,politician and jurist. Between 6 February 2008 and 8 May 2008 he was Minister of Justice in Romano Prodi's government.
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). The media has referred to him as Leader Maximo due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic.
The Anticapitalist and Communist List was a communist coalition of political parties in Italy,formed in the run-up to the 2009 European Parliament election in order to overcome the 4% threshold introduced by the new electoral law.
Giuliano Pisapia is an Italian lawyer,politician,former mayor of Milan,former member of the Italian Parliament and member of the European Parliament.
The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo,who replaced Paolo Ferrero in 2017. Armando Cossutta was the party's founder,while Fausto Bertinotti its longest-serving leader (1994–2008). The latter transformed the PRC from a traditional communist party into a collection of radical social movements.
The centre-left coalition is an alliance of political parties in Italy active,under several forms and names,since 1995 when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi. The centre-left coalition has ruled the country for more than 15 years between 1996 and 2022.
