The Federation of the Greens,frequently referred to as Greens (Verdi),was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federation of Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens.
Nicola Zingaretti is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio from March 2013 to November 2022 and was Secretary of the Democratic Party from March 2019 until March 2021.
Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who has been serving as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He had previously served as prime minister of Italy from December 2016 to June 2018.
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.
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.
Maurizio Martina is an Italian politician and former member of the Chamber of Deputies,who served as secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from March to November 2018,being appointed after the 2018 Italian general election. He served as Minister of Agricultural,Food and Forestry Policies from 22 February 2014 to 13 March 2018,in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni. On 7 May 2017,he was elected Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party. Martina resigned as Agriculture Minister and took over as acting secretary of the PD after Matteo Renzi resigned following a poor election showing in 2018.
Snap municipal elections were held in Rome on 5 and 19 June 2016,to elect the Mayor of Rome and 48 members of the City Council,as well as the fifteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 15 municipi in which the municipality is divided.
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.
Free and Equal was a left-wing electoral list and parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and a sub-group in the Senate,the two houses of the Italian Parliament. LeU was launched on 3 December 2017 as a federation of political parties including Article 1,Italian Left and Possible. The leader of the alliance for the 2018 general election was Pietro Grasso,former President of the Senate and former anti-Mafia prosecutor. The three founding parties left the alliance in late 2018,but LeU continued to exist in Parliament. Following the 2021 Italian government crisis,LeU had a single minister,Roberto Speranza,in the national unity government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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.
Roberto Morassut is an Italian politician.
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.
Piazza Grande is a social-democratic and progressive faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Its leader is Nicola Zingaretti,President of Lazio region from 2013 to 2022 and former leader of the PD. He is considered a social democrat and one of the most prominent members of the party's left-wing. Piazza Grande's members are also known as Zingarettiani from the name of their leader.
Anna Ascani is an Italian politician.
Always Forward was a liberal and centrist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Its leaders were Roberto Giachetti and Anna Ascani,close advisors of Matteo Renzi,party's former national secretary and former Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 to December 2016.
Action is a liberal political party in Italy. Its leader is Carlo Calenda,a 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.
Democratic Energy is a liberal and centrist faction within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy. Its leader is Anna Ascani,PD's vice president and deputy from Umbria,who was considered very close to Matteo Renzi,party's former national secretary and former Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 to December 2016.
Municipal elections took place in Rome on 3–4 October 2021 and 17–18 October 2021. Open for election were the office of Mayor of Rome and all the 48 seats of the City Council,as well as the presidents and councils of each of the fifteen municipi in which the city is divided.
The municipal elections in Bologna took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent Mayor of Bologna was Virginio Merola of Democratic Party,who won the 2016 Bologna municipal election. The centre-left candidate Matteo Lepore won in a landslide with 62% of votes,becoming the most voted mayor since the introduction of direct elections in 1995.
