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2015 Italian Regional Elections
A large round of regional elections were held in Italy on 31 May 2015 in seven of the twenty regions composing the country, including four of the ten largest ones: Campania, Veneto, Apulia and Tuscany. The other three regions holding elections were Liguria, Marche, Umbria Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The re ....Regionali, saltano le coalizioni: Pd e Forza Italia si litigano Alfano
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Popular Area
Popular Area (, AP) was a centre-right and mainly Christian-democratic coalition, which included two parliamentary groups active in each house of the Italian Parliament: the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. "Popular" was a reference to ''popolarismo'', the Italian variety of Christian democracy. History The groups, launched in December 2014, originally included 34 deputies and 36 senators, comprising the New Centre-Right (NCD), the Union of the Centre (UdC), some dissidents from Civic Choice (SC) and a splinter from the Five Star Movement (M5S). The UdC and most former SC members were previously affiliated to the For Italy groups. In the 2015 regional elections, Popular Area ran lists in Veneto, Liguria and Tuscany. In Campania and Umbria the names "Popular Campania" and "For Popular Umbria" were used, respectively. Finally, in Marche and Apulia, the NCD (without the UdC) formed a joint list with Marche 2020 and Francesco Schittulli's movement, respectively, under the Po ...
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Catiuscia Marini
Catiuscia Marini (born 25 September 1967) is an Italian politician and manager. She was president of Umbria from 2010 to 2019. She has been a manager of Legacoop since 2007. Biography Marini graduated in political science with an international political orientation at the University of Perugia. After holding the posts of city councilor and deputy mayor of the same city, in 1998 Marini was elected mayor of Todi and held the office until 2007. In 2000 she was named by UNICEF UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Development a ... as ideal defender mayor of children for its activities in support of projects for the protection of children's rights. Marini was MEP from 2008 to 2009; she was a member of the parliamentary group of the European Socialist Party and of the Internal Market an ...
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2015 Umbrian Regional Election
The Umbrian regional election of 2015 took place on 31 May 2015.Alfano: la data delle regionali è il 31 Maggio
La Repubblica, 24 March 2015 of the Democratic Party (PD) was narrowly re-elected President over the joint- candidate, Claudio Ricci. The PD was by far the largest ...
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Enrico Rossi (politician)
Enrico Rossi (born 25 August 1958) is an Italian politician and former President of Tuscany. Early life He was born into a working-class family in 1958 and in 1982 he graduated with a degree in philosophy with a thesis on the Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller. During the university, he was part of the student movement and worked as a journalist. In 1985, he joined in the Italian Communist Party. Mayor of Pontedera and Regional Assessor of Health From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the City Council of Pontedera (an industrial town with a large Piaggio-Vespa factory), serving as Vice Mayor and Councillor for Social Policy and Urban Planning. Later, he became Mayor of the same city, holding the office for nine years, from 1990 to 1999. During his second term, Rossi fought against the move of the '' Piaggio'' from Pontedera to Nusco. In 2000, Enrico Rossi was elected as a Member of the Regional Council of Tuscany, and for ten years he was Regional Assessor for Healthcare. U ...
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2015 Tuscan Regional Election
The Tuscan regional election of 2015 took place on 31 May 2015. Electoral system Tuscany uses its own legislation of 2014 to elect its Regional Council. The councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. Florence constituency is further divided into 4 sub-constituencies. Preferential voting is allowed: a maximum of two preferences can be expressed for candidates of the same party list and provided the two chosen candidates are of different gender. In this system parties are grouped in alliances, supporting a candidate for the post of President of Tuscany. The candidate receiving at least 40% of the votes is elected to the post and his/her list (or the coalition) is awarded a majority in the Regional Council. If no candidate gets more than 40% of the votes, a run-off is held fourteen days after, with only the two top candidates from the first round allowed. The winning candidate is assured a majority in the Regional ...
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Luca Ceriscioli
Luca Ceriscioli (born 15 March 1966 in Pesaro) is an Italian politician. He is a former mayor of Pesaro and former President of the Marche region. Biography Graduated in mathematics from the University of Bologna, he was a Mathematics teacher at the Urbino Industrial Technical Institute. In 1995 he was elected councilor in the IV district of the municipality of Pesaro for the Progressives list. From 2000 to 2004 he was a municipal Assessor of Pesaro with the delegation of public works. In 2004 he was elected Mayor of Pesaro with the 56.1% of preferences; in 2009 he was re-confirmed with the 52.3% of preferences. President (2015–2020) In the 2015 Marche regional election Ceriscioli has been a candidate for the Partito Democratico The Democratic Party (, PD) is a Social democracy, social democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Elly Schlein, elected in the 2023 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, 2023 leadership election, while the part ...
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Gian Mario Spacca
Gian Mario Spacca (born 16 February 1953) is an Italian politician who served as the president of Marche from 2005 to 2015. Biography Gian Mario Spacca was born in Fabriano, Marche, on 16 February 1953. In 1976, he graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in Political Science. His thesis director in Criminal Law and Procedure was Aldo Moro. In 1979, he joined the Research Department of the ''Merloni Finanziaria S.p.A.'' as a manager. He served on the board of directors of the Aristide Merloni Foundation and was coordinator of cultural activities and research from 1982 to 1990. Since 1982, he has been editor of the magazine ''Economia Marche'', published by ''Il Mulino''. From 1993 to 2000 he was Vice President of the Foundation ''Gioventù Chiesa e Speranza'' that collaborates in the organization and execution of World Youth Day. In 1990, he was elected member of the Regional Council of Marche and became Chairman of the Committee on Planning and The Environment. ...
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2015 Marche Regional Election
The Marche regional election of 2015 took place on 31 May 2015.Alfano: la data delle regionali è il 31 Maggio
La Repubblica, 24 March 2015 of the Democratic Party (PD) was elected President by defeating a fractured field of opponents, notably including the incumbent President, Gian Mario Spacca, who had switched sides from the PD to a centre-right coalition led by

Giovanni Toti
Giovanni Toti (born 7 September 1968) is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been President of Liguria from 2015 to 2024. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament, following the 2014 European Parliament election. Biography Born in Viareggio in 1968, Toti grew up in Massa Carrara where the family ran a hotel, and he has lived for many years with his family and parents in Bocca di Magra, Ameglia, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria. He graduated in political science from the University of Milan. He is married to the journalist Siria Magri. During the 1980s he was a member of the youth wing of the Italian Socialist Party, led at the time by Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987, later condemned for corruption, in the trial ''Mani Pulite''. In 1991, he started working for Studio Aperto, the news program of Silvio Berlusconi's TV channel Italia 1, of which he became director in 2010. In March 2012 Toti became also director of Tg4, replacing the l ...
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Claudio Burlando
Claudio Burlando (born 27 April 1954, in Genoa) is an Italian politician, and was President of Liguria, until 31 March 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a former Democrats of the Left member. Career After graduating with a degree in electronic engineering, in the eighties he worked as a researcher for the company Elsag-Bailey. He became interested in politics from a young age, adhering to the Italian Communist Party with which he took his first steps in politics and he held the first public office, becoming secretary of the federation Genoese party from 1989 to 1990. He later joined the Democratic Party of the Left, with which he was elected to Parliament and has held the position of national coordinator of local authorities (1994-1996) and the Democrats of the Left, of which he was chief economist from 1998 to 2000. With the Communist Party, he became councilor (1981-1993) and Commissioner for Transport (1983-1985). He was deputy mayor of Genoa (1990-1992, du ...
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2015 Ligurian Regional Election
The Ligurian regional election of 2015 took place on 31 May 2015.Alfano: la data delle regionali è il 31 Maggio
La Repubblica, 24 March 2015 of , who benefited of the decisive support of the Northern League Liguria, was elected President in a three-way race with Raffaella Paita of the
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