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.
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995,2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013,and has served as a member of the Senate of the Republic since 2022,and previously from March to November 2013,and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019,and previously from 1999 to 2001.
Forza Italia was a centre-right political party in Italy with liberal-conservative,Christian-democratic,liberal,social-democratic and populist tendencies. Its leader was Silvio Berlusconi,who served as Prime Minister of Italy four times.
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. Since March 2021,Letta has been secretary of the Democratic Party (PD).
Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and was Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD),Italy's leading centre-left party,from 2009 to 2013. Bersani was Minister of Industry,Commerce and Craftmanship from 1996 to 1999,Minister of Transport from 1999 to 2001,and Minister of Economic Development from 2006 to 2008.
Roberto Ernesto Maroni is an Italian politician from Varese,former President of Lombardy. He was leader of the Northern League,a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. From 1992 to 2013 he was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic,always elected in Lombard constituencies. He was Interior Minister of the Italian Republic from 1994 to 1995,and from 2008 to 2011.
Giorgio Napolitano is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015,the first Italian president to be re-elected to the presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics,some critics have sometimes referred to him as Re Giorgio. In office from 2006 to 2015,he is the longest-serving and longest-lived president in the history of the modern Italian Republic,which has been in existence since 1946.
Angelino Alfano is an Italian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
The People of Freedom was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL,launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007,was initially a federation of political parties,notably including Forza Italia and National Alliance,which participated as a joint election list in the 2008 general election. The federation was later transformed into a party during a party congress on 27–29 March 2009. The party's leading members included Angelino Alfano,Renato Schifani,Renato Brunetta,Roberto Formigoni,Maurizio Sacconi,Maurizio Gasparri,Mariastella Gelmini,Antonio Martino,Giancarlo Galan,Maurizio Lupi,Gaetano Quagliariello,Daniela Santanchè,Sandro Bondi,and Raffaele Fitto.
Maria Rosaria "Mara" Carfagna is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model. After obtaining a degree in law,Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006. From 2008 to 2011,she served as Minister for Equal Opportunity in Berlusconi IV Cabinet. In 2018 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Deputies. In 2021,she has become the Minister for the South and territorial cohesion in the cabinet presided by Mario Draghi.
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa is an Italian politician. He was Minister of Defence in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi. He is the Vice President of the Senate of the Republic in the XVIII Legislature (2018–present).
The 2013 Italian general election was held on 24 and 25 February 2013 to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 17th Italian Parliament. The centre-left alliance Italy Common Good,led by the Democratic Party (PD),obtained a clear majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies thanks to a majority bonus that effectively trebled the number of seats assigned to the winning force and narrowly defeated the centre-right alliance of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the popular vote. Close behind,the new anti-establishment Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo became the third force,well ahead of the centrist coalition of outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti. In the Senate,no political group or party won an outright majority,resulting in a hung parliament.
Ferruccio Fazio is an Italian politician and was the minister of health from 2009 to 2011 in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi.
Mario Landolfi is an Italian politician,served as a member of the parliament and minister of communications.
The Letta Cabinet was the 62nd cabinet 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.
Francesco Saverio Romano is an Italian politician and lawyer. He served as the minister of agricultures in 2011 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2001 and 2018.
Antonio Marzano is an Italian economist,academic and politician,who served as the minister of productive activities in the second cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi from 2001 to 2005.
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.
Events in the year 2013 in Italy.
Gianfranco Miccichè is an Italian politician.
