Lega Nord,whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania,is a right-wing,federalist,populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election,the party was rebranded as Lega (transl. League),without changing its official name. The party was nonetheless frequently referred to only as "Lega" even before the rebranding,and informally as the Carroccio. The party's latest elected leader was Matteo Salvini.
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 organisations. Until October 2009,the party was known as Socialist Party.
The centre-left coalition is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1995,when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi. The centre-left coalition has ruled the country for more than fifteen years between 1996 and 2022;to do so,it had mostly to rely on a big tent that went from the more radical left-wing,which had more weight between 1996 and 2008,to the political centre,which had more weight during the 2010s,and its main parties were also part of grand coalitions and national unity governments.
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.
Italian Left is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies,including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL),dissidents from the Democratic Party like Future to the Left,and splinters from the Five Star Movement. At its launch,SI included 32 deputies,who were soon followed by 8 senators,and 2 MEPs. SI was officially formed as a full-fledged party in February 2017,after SEL had chosen to merge into it in December 2016.
Michele Emiliano is an Italian politician and former judge. He is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015,and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a populist and regionalist politician.
Roberto Giachetti is an Italian politician,member of Italia Viva and of the Transnational Radical Party. He has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2001.
Article One,officially Article 1 –Democratic and Progressive Movement,was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
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.
Andrea Marcucci is an Italian politician.
Francesco Boccia is an Italian academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD) who served as Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
Luca Pastorino is an Italian politician and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2013. In 2019,he co-founded èViva with Francesco Laforgia.
Anna Rossomando is an Italian politician from the Democratic Party,vice president of the Senate since 2018.
Paola De Micheli is an Italian manager and politician of the Democratic Party (PD),who served as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021;she was the first woman to hold the office.
Francesco Acquaroli is an Italian politician of the Brothers of Italy (FdI).
Antonio Misiani is an Italian politician. He was Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance in the Conte II Cabinet.
èViva was an Italian left-wing political party.
Luigi Marattin is an Italian politician and economist. Since 30 July 2020,Marattin has served as president of the 6th Permanent Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
Roberto Traversi is an Italian politician.
Cosimo Maria Ferri is an Italian politician and former magistrate. He served as the Undersecretary of State for Justice in the Letta government,the Renzi government,and the Gentiloni government. Since 2018,he has been a member of the Italian Parliament as a deputy for the Democratic Party,and from September 2019,he has represented Italia Viva. He also previously served as a member of the High Council of the Judiciary.
