Sabrina Ricciardi (born 21 November 1968) is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement, who has been a member of the Senate of the Republic since the 2018 Italian general election. [1]
The Senate of the Republic or simply the Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Italian Parliament. The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical functions, but do so separately. The Senate currently has 315 seats. Pursuant to the amended Articles 57, 58, and 59 of the Italian Constitution, the Senate has a variable number of members, of which 196 will be elected from Italian constituencies in the next election, 4 from Italian citizens living abroad, and a small number are senators for life, either appointed or ex officio. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as Senato del Regno, itself a continuation of the Senato Subalpino of Sardinia established on 8 May 1848. Members of the Senate are styled Senator or The Honourable Senator and they meet at Palazzo Madama, Rome.
Italy has recognised same-sex civil unions since 5 June 2016, providing same-sex couples with most of the legal protections enjoyed by opposite-sex married couples. A bill to allow such unions, as well as gender-neutral registered partnerships, was approved by the Senate on 25 February 2016 and the Chamber of Deputies on 11 May and signed into law by the Italian President on 20 May of the same year. The law was published in the official gazette the next day and took effect on 5 June 2016. Before this, several regions had supported a national law on civil unions and some municipalities passed laws providing for civil unions, though the rights conferred by these civil unions varied from place to place.
Maria Elisabetta Casellati is an Italian lawyer and politician serving as President of the Italian Senate since 2018. She is the first woman to have ever held this position. Casellati is a long-time member of the liberal-conservative party Forza Italia and served as Undersecretary of Health and Justice in previous governments. In 2022, she was nominated as candidate for President of Italy by the centre-right coalition.
Gian Marco Centinaio is an Italian politician for the Lega Nord. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Tourism in the Conte Cabinet from 1 June 2018 to September 2019.
For the Autonomies is a heterogeneous mostly centrist to centre-left and originally regionalist parliamentary group, which has been active, with slightly different names and different composition, in the Italian Senate since 2001.
The Liberal Popular Alliance, whose full name was Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies, was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. ALA members were known as Verdiniani, from the name of their leader Denis Verdini, who was formerly a long-time member and national coordinator of three successive centre-right parties led by Silvio Berlusconi until July 2015, when he broke with Berlusconi in order to support the government led by Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party.
Identity and Action is a conservative political party in Italy, whose membership stretches from Christian democracy to liberal conservatism.
The President of the Senate of the Republic is the presiding officer of the Italian Senate. The President of the Senate is the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.
Marco Marsilio has been President of Abruzzo since 23 February 2019.
Paola Taverna is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement, who has been a member of the Senate of the Republic since the 2013 Italian general election. She has subsequently been elected Vice-President of the Senate as of March 2018
Alessandra Maiorino is an Italian politician of the Five Star Movement, who serves as a Senator. She is a member of the Legislature XVIII of Italy.
Alternativa is a populist and Eurosceptic political party in Italy. It was established in February 2021 as a parliamentary sub-group of the Mixed Group named L'Alternativa c'è. Its members are former deputies of the Five Star Movement who were expelled from the party for having voted against Mario Draghi's government.
Coraggio Italia is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy, led by Luigi Brugnaro.
Emilia Grazia De Biasi was an Italian politician and senator.
Emanuele Dessì is an Italian politician who has served in the Senate of the Republic since 2018.
Rosa Maria Di Giorgi is an Italian politician.
Constitution, Environment, Labour, whose full name is United for the Constitution – C.A.L. – Alternative – PC – Italy Again – Project SMART – IdV, is a heterogeneous populist, Eurosceptic, and mainly left-wing parliamentary group active in the Senate of the Republic.
Together for the Future is a centrist political party in Italy, acting mainly through its parliamentary groups in the Italian Parliament. Its founder and leader is Luigi Di Maio. All of its parliamentary members were elected for the Five Star Movement (M5S) in the 2018 Italian general election but exited from the party in June 2022, when the M5S's former leader Di Maio decided to form his own political group, following tensions with M5S leader Giuseppe Conte.
Danila De Lucia is an Italian politician and journalist. She has been a member of the Senate of the Republic for the Five Star Movement since 2018.