The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Positioned on the centre-left, the DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of the PDS with several minor parties. A member of The Olive Tree coalition, the DS was successively led by Massimo D'Alema, Walter Veltroni, and Piero Fassino, and merged with Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy and a number of minor centre-left parties to form the Democratic Party in October 2007.
The Olive Tree was a denomination used for several successive centre-left political and electoral alliances of Italian political parties from 1995 to 2007.
Liga Veneta, whose complete name is Liga Veneta per Salvini Premier, is a regionalist political party active in Veneto.
The politics of Veneto, a region of Italy, takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democracy, whereby the President is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.
This page gathers the results of elections in Veneto.
Gerardo Chiaromonte was an Italian communist politician, engineer, journalist, and writer.
The Daisy Civic List was a regionalist, Christian democratic, centrist Italian political party active in Trentino.
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 Italian 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). Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy. Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic, he is referred to as Leader Maximo. He is also the author of several books.
Alliance for Italy was a centrist political party in Italy.
PSE – Mancini List was a regional social-democratic political party active in Calabria. The party was often referred to as PSE, Italian acronym for the Party of European Socialists and was led by Giacomo Mancini.
Pietrangelo Pettenò is an Italian politician from Veneto.
Toward North is a liberal and federalist political association based in Veneto, Italy.
Elisabetta Gardini is an Italian politician and former actress.
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 Venetian regional election of 2015 took place in Veneto on 31 May 2015, as part of a big round of regional elections in Italy. Venetian voters elected their President and their Regional Council, whose members had been reduced to 51, including the President.
The X Legislature of the Regional Council of Veneto, the legislative assembly of Veneto, was inaugurated in June 2015, following the 2015 regional election, and ended in October 2020. Of the 51 members, 49 were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while the remaining two were the elected President and the candidate for President who came second. The winning coalition won a bonus of seats in order to make sure the elected President had a majority in the Council.
Vincenzo De Luca is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been serving as president of Campania since 18 June 2015. De Luca also served as mayor of Salerno for more than 17 years, becoming one of the longest serving mayors in Italy.
Paolo Corsini is an Italian politician and university professor, former Mayor of Brescia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2008.
Anna Filippa Sanna is an Italian teacher and a former politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left between 1987 and 1994, before becoming the mayor of Sassari from 1995 to 2000 with the Democrats of the Left.
Anna Mainardi Fava was an Italian politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1992, representing the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left.
