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.
The prime minister of Italy,officially the President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic,commonly referred to in Italy as Presidente del Consiglio or informally as Premier,is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of prime minister is established by Articles 92 through 96 of the Constitution of Italy. The prime minister is appointed by the president of the Republic and must have the confidence of the Italian Parliament to stay in office.
Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. He has been Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord party since December 2013 and an Italian senator since March 2018. Salvini represented Northwestern Italy in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2018.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic and lawyer who has served as the president of Italy since 2015.
Guglielmo Picchi is an Italian politician.
Lorenzo Fontana is an Italian politician and member of Lega,who is serving as President of the Chamber of Deputies since 14 October 2022.
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament,even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition,and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.
Luigi Di Maio is an Italian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 5 September 2019. Di Maio previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development,Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019,and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the XVII Italian legislature.
Lorenzo Guerini is an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party. Guerini has been serving as Minister of Defence in the cabinets of successive Prime Ministers Giuseppe Conte and Mario Draghi since 5 September 2019. In March 2014,he was appointed by the Secretary of the Democratic Party,Matteo Renzi,Deputy Secretary along with Debora Serracchiani,a position that he held until May 2017. From 2005 to 2012 he served as Mayor of Lodi,his hometown.
Roberto Speranza is an Italian politician of the Chamber of Deputies who serves as national secretary of Article One. Since 5 September 2019,he has been serving as Minister of Health in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and was later confirmed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi. During his tenure,he had to face the COVID-19 pandemic,which deeply affected Italy.
The 2022 Italian general election was a snap election held in Italy on 25 September 2022. After the fall of the Draghi government,which led to a parliamentary impasse,President Sergio Mattarella dissolved the parliament on 21 July,and called for new elections. Regional elections in Sicily were held on the same day. The results of the general election showed the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy,a radical-right political party with neo-fascist roots,winning an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament.
Giuseppe Conte is an Italian jurist,academic,and politician who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) since August 2021.
The Conte I Cabinet was the 65th cabinet of the Italian Republic. It was led by Giuseppe Conte,an independent,and it was in office from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019.
Teresa Bellanova is an Italian politician and trade unionist,who served as Minister of Agriculture from September 2019 to January 2021 in the government of Giuseppe Conte. In 2018,she was elected in the Italian Senate for the Democratic Party (PD),but in 2019 she joined Italia Viva (IV),the new movement of Matteo Renzi. Bellanova was also a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018.
The 2019 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that occurred between August and September 2019. It includes the events that follow the announcement of the Minister of the Interior and leader of the League,Matteo Salvini,that he would revoke League's support of the cabinet and ask the President of the Republic to call a snap election. This provoked the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte,and resulted in the formation of a new cabinet led by Conte himself.
The Conte II Cabinet was the 66th cabinet of the Italian Republic and the second cabinet led by Giuseppe Conte. The government was sworn in on 5 September 2019.
Federico D'Incà is an Italian politician,who is member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Five Star Movement. On 5 September 2019,he was appointed as Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the Conte II Cabinet.
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.
The Draghi Cabinet is the 67th and current Cabinet of the Italian Republic,the first led by former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. It has been in office since 13 February 2021.
The 2022 Italian presidential election was held in Rome between 24 and 29 January 2022. The president of Italy was elected by a joint assembly composed of the Italian Parliament and regional representatives. The election process extended over multiple days,culminating in incumbent president Sergio Mattarella being confirmed for a second term,with a total of 759 votes on the eighth ballot. This was the second most votes ever received by a presidential candidate. Mattarella became the second president to be re-elected,his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano being the first.
