Calabria is a region in southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by Basilicata to the north,the Ionian Sea to the east,the Strait of Messina to the southwest,which separates it from Sicily,and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. It has almost 2 million residents across a total area of 15,222 km2 (5,877 sq mi). Catanzaro is the region's capital.
Unione Sportiva Catanzaro 1929,or simply Catanzaro,is a professional football club based in Catanzaro,Calabria,Italy,that competes in Serie B,the second tier of the Italian football championship,following a 17-year absence from it.
Catanzaro,also known as the "City of the two Seas",is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020),the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region,behind Reggio Calabria.
Lega Emilia,whose complete name is Lega Emilia per Salvini Premier,is a regionalist political party active in Emilia,part of Emilia-Romagna region. Established in 1989,it was one of the founding "national" sections of Lega Nord (LN) in 1991 and has been the regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in Emilia since 2020.
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa is an Italian politician who is serving as president of the Senate of the Republic since 13 October 2022. He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate,the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.
I the South,was a conservative regionalist political party in Italy,which has been a faction of Brothers of Italy since 2014.
Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since October 2022,the first woman to hold this position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006,she has led the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014 and has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020. Forbes ranked Meloni as the fourth most powerful woman in the world in 2023. In 2024 she was listed among the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Brothers of Italy is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy,that is currently the country's ruling party. It became the largest party after the 2022 Italian general election. The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy. Meloni's tenure has been described as the "most right-wing" republican government in Italy since World War II,whilst her time in government is frequently described as a shift towards the far-right in Italian politics.
Democratic Centre is a centrist,Christian leftist and social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members,including its leader Bruno Tabacci,are former Christian Democrats. Since its beginnings,the CD has been also part of the centre-left coalition,centred around the Democratic Party (PD).
Guido Crosetto is an Italian businessman and politician,who has been serving as Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni.
Direction Italy was a liberal-conservative political party in Italy.
Carlo Fidanza is an Italian politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019,previously holding a seat from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of Brothers of Italy (FdI).
Jole Santelli was an Italian politician. A member of Forza Italia,she was the President of Calabria from 15 February 2020 until her death eight months later.
Francesco Squillace was an Italian lawyer,politician,and a member of the Christian Democracy party. Squillace served as the President of the Province of Catanzaro,in Calabria,for a brief tenure in 1975. He also served as the mayor of Chiaravalle Centrale for two terms in the 1950s and 1960s,as well as a member of the Provincial Council of Catanzaro. Additionally,he was the former Catanzaro provincial secretary of the Christian Democrats (DC).
The 2021 Calabrian regional election took place in Calabria,Italy,on 3 and 4 October 2021,following the dissolution of the regional parliament after the death of regional president Jole Santelli. It was originally scheduled to take place on 14 February 2021,then on 11 April 2021,and was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
Giuseppe Mangialavori is an Italian politician. He is a senator of the Republic of Italy and a member of the Legislature XVIII of Italy. He has been Regional Coordinator of Forza Italia in Calabria since March 2021.
Paolo Trancassini is an Italian politician and has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Brothers of Italy since 2018.
Gaetano Nastri is an Italian politician.
Carmen Letizia Giorgianni is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia.
Lucrezia Maria Benedetta Mantovani is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as member of the Chamber of Deputies. She took office in 2019,succeeding Guido Crosetto after his resignation,and was re-elected in the 2022 general election. She is the daughter of Mario Mantovani.
