The Italian Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups:Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists,the faction of the New Italian Socialist Party led by Gianni De Michelis,The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi,Democracy and Socialism of Gavino Angius,the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci,Socialism is Freedom of Rino Formica and some other minor organizations. Until October 2009,the party was known as Socialist Party.
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019,having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018,with a brief interruption in 2017.
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.
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.
Civic Choice was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy founded by Mario Monti. The party was formed in the run-up of the 2013 general election to support the outgoing Prime Minister Monti and continue his political agenda. In the election SC was part of a centrist coalition named With Monti for Italy,along with Union of the Centre of Pier Ferdinando Casini and Future and Freedom of Gianfranco Fini.
Forza Italia is a centre-right political party in Italy,whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism,Christian democracy and liberalism. FI is a member of the European People's Party. Silvio Berlusconi is the party's leader and president,while Antonio Tajani functions as vice president and national coordinator. Other leading members include Elisabetta Casellati,as well as ministers Renato Brunetta,Mara Carfagna and Mariastella Gelmini.
Maria Elena Boschi,is an Italian lawyer and politician,member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013.
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 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.
Popular Alternative is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy that was founded on 18 March 2017 after the dissolution of New Centre-Right (NCD),one of the two parties that emerged at the break-up of The People of Freedom.
The 2022 Italian general election is a snap election,due to be held in Italy on 25 September 2022. The 2022 Italian government crisis,which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi,resulted in President Sergio Mattarella dissolving the Italian Parliament on 21 July,eight months before its natural expiration,and call for new elections. Draghi continues to head the government as caretaker prime minister.
The Popular Civic List was a centrist coalition of political parties in Italy. Its leader is Beatrice Lorenzin,minister of Health from 2013 to 2018 and member of Popular Alternative.
Italia in Comune is a green and progressive political party in Italy. It was founded in April 2018 by mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti,other former members of the Five Star Movement and local non-party independent politicians generally affiliated with the centre-left coalition.
Cambiamo! is a centre-right political party in Italy,led by Giovanni Toti.
Action is a liberal political party in Italy. Its leader is Carlo Calenda,a member of the European Parliament within the group of Renew Europe and 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).
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.
Us of the Centre,is a minor Christian-democratic political party in Italy,based in Campania,where it is known also as Us Campanians. Led by Clemente Mastella,minister of Labour in Berlusconi I Cabinet (1994–1995),minister of Justice in Prodi II Cabinet (2006–2008) and current mayor of Benevento,the party is the successor of the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR).
Italy in the Centre is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy led by Giovanni Toti.
