National Alliance was a national conservative political party in Italy. It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI),a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology,a move known as post-fascismo,during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995.
The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Positioned on the centre-left,the DS,successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party,was formed in 1998 upon the merger of the PDS with several minor parties. A member of The Olive Tree coalition,the DS was successively led by Massimo D'Alema,Walter Veltroni,and Piero Fassino,and merged with Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy and a number of minor centre-left parties to form the Democratic Party in October 2007.
The New Italian Socialist Party or New PSI,more recently styled as Liberal Socialists –NPSI,is a political party in Italy which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the historical Italian Socialist Party,which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s.
The Union of the Centre,whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats",is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. Lorenzo Cesa is the party's current secretary;Pier Ferdinando Casini was for years the most recognisable figure and de facto leader of the party,before eventually distancing from it in 2016. The UdC is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Centrist Democrat International (CDI),of which Casini was president from 2004 to 2015.
Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy,commonly known simply as The Daisy,was a centrist political party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties within the centre-left coalition:the Italian People's Party,The Democrats and Italian Renewal. The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli,former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition,within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote.
Luigi Ciriaco De Mita was an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 1988 to July 1989.
Pier Ferdinando Casini is an Italian politician. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2006.
The Christian Democratic Centre was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy from 1994 to 2002. Formed from a right-wing split from Christian Democracy,the party joined the centre-right coalition,and was a member of the European People's Party (EPP).
Benedetto Della Vedova is an Italian politician.
The Italian People's Party was a Christian-democratic,centrist and Christian-leftist political party in Italy. The party was a member of the European People's Party (EPP).
Arturo Parisi is an Italian politician,leader of the Ulivist faction of the Democratic Party and a four-time member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He was also minister of defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi from 2006 to 2008.
Bruno Tabacci is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is the president of the Democratic Centre. In the past,he was a member of Christian Democracy and served as the president of Lombardy from 1987 to 1989.
Edelweiss is a regionalist,Christian-democratic political party active in Aosta Valley,Italy.
Christian Democracy is a minor Christian democratic and strongly social-conservative political party in Italy. The current leader of the party is Denis Martucci.
The Populars is a loose association within the Democratic Party (PD),a political party in Italy.
Mario Baccini is an Italian politician,former member of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats and promoter of the White Rose,incumbent mayor of Fiumicino since May 2023.
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Earlier in his career,D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy. Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic,he is referred to as Leader Maximo. He is also the author of several books.
Dario Franceschini is an Italian lawyer,writer,and politician,member of the Democratic Party (PD),of which he briefly became leader in 2009. Franceschini served as Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism,a position that he held from February 2014 to June 2018 and again from September 2019 to October 2022,making him the longest-serving cultural heritage minister in the history of the Italian Republic. Franceschini also served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations from 2013 to 2014.
The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo,who replaced Paolo Ferrero in 2017. Armando Cossutta was the party's founder,while Fausto Bertinotti its longest-serving leader (1994–2008). The latter transformed the PRC from a traditional communist party into a collection of radical social movements.
Sergio Antonio D'Antoni is an Italian politician,syndicalist and sports manager,current President of CONI Sicilia.
