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Marco Zambuto
Marco Zambuto (born 10 April 1973) is an Italian politician. Early life and education Zambuto was born on 10 April 1973 in Agrigento, in the Sicily region. He attended the ''liceo classico'' (named after Empedocles)'','' where he was for several years the institute representative, and was also the provincial representative of Agrigento students. He graduated in law at the University of Palermo. He is a lawyer since 1999. Career Zambuto began his political career in Christian Democracy (DC). In 1993, he was elected municipal councilor of Agrigento on the DC list . After the DC dissolved in 1994, he joined the United Christian Democrats (CDU) in 1995 and he was re-elected with the CDU party in 1997. In 2004, Zambuto became the municipal budget councilor of Agrigento. He ran for mayor of Agrigento at the 2007 Italian local elections, supported by a coalition composed of the Union of the Centre (UdC), Democrats of the Left (DS), and UDEUR. He was elected at the second round and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Agrigento
The mayor of Agrigento is an elected politician who, along with the Agrigento's city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Agrigento in Sicily, Italy. The current mayor is Francesco Miccichè, an independent politician, who took office on 21 October 2020. Overview According to the Italian Constitution, the mayor of Agrigento is member of the city council. The mayor is elected by the population of Agrigento, who also elects the members of the city council, controlling the mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government. Since 1993 the mayor is elected directly by Agrigento's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 40% of votes, the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Italian Local Elections
The 2012 Italian local elections were held on 6–7 May, with a second round on 20–21 May. In Italy, direct elections were held in 948 municipalities: in each municipality (''comune'') were chosen mayor and members of the City Council. Of the 948 municipalities, 28 were provincial capitals and only 176 had a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants (10,000 for Sicily). Citizens living in Italy who were 18 or over on election day were entitled to vote in the local council elections. The deadline for voters to register to vote in the 6–7 May elections was midday on Tuesday 3 April 2012. For the first time there weren't provincial elections around Italy because they were abolished by the Law n.3660 of 4 December 2011. Instead of a president, the provincial government would be entrusted to a ''Special Commissioner''. Other elections were taken on 10–11 June with a second round on 24–25 June in 65 municipalities of Sardinia: important cities like Alghero and Oristano Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renew Europe
Renew Europe (or simply Renew) is a liberal, centrist to centre-right, pro-European political group of the European Parliament founded for the ninth European Parliament term. The group is the successor to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group which existed during the sixth, seventh and eighth terms from 2004 to 2019, and under a variety of other names in earlier Parliaments. Renew Europe in the European Committee of the Regions is the sister group of Renew Europe. History In May 2019, speaking at a debate leading up to the 2019 European Parliament election, Guy Verhofstadt, president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group, announced that, following the election, the ALDE Group intended to dissolve and form a new alliance with French President Emmanuel Macron's "Renaissance" electoral list. During and following the European elections, the group temporarily styled itself "ALDE plus Renaissance plus USR PLUS". The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democracy Sicily
Christian Democracy Sicily (, DCS), also known as New Christian Democracy (''Nuova Democrazia Cristiana''), is a Christian-democratic political party based in Sicily, Italy. Its leader is Salvatore Cuffaro, a former President of Sicily. The party is the regional section of one of the political parties named Christian Democracy, of which Cuffaro was elected secretary in 2023. History In October 2020, Cuffaro launched the DCS, in connection with the Christian Democracy led by Renato Grassi and Renzo Gubert. The party ran for the first time with its own list in the municipal elections of 2021 in Sicily, obtaining good results and several seats (11.5% and three seats in Favara, 6.4% and one seat in Giarre, 6.7% and one seat in Caltagirone and 4.4% in San Cataldo). In March 2022, the party reached an agreement with Us of the Centre of Clemente Mastella looking forward the following elections. However, in the municipal elections of June, the party ran in a joint list with Us with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Cuffaro
Salvatore "Totò" Cuffaro (born 21 February 1958) is a former Italian politician and former President of Sicily. He has served an almost 5-year jail sentence for aiding Cosa Nostra.Prima notte in cella per Cuffaro La Repubblica, 23 January 2011 He has earned the nickname ''Vasa Vasa'' ( Sicilian for "Kiss Kiss") for his tendency to kiss all and sundry; he says that he has kissed a quarter of all the people on the island. Biography Christian democrat A graduate of |
2024 European Parliament Election In Italy
The 2024 European Parliament election in Italy took place on 8 and 9 June 2024, electing members of the 10th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the broader 2024 European Parliament election from 6 to 9 June. It was held concurrently with the 2024 Italian local elections. Background In the previous European election of 2019, the Lega (political party), League of Matteo Salvini arrived first with 34.3% of the vote and 29 seats, followed by the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party with 22.7% and 19 seats. In the 2022 Italian general election, the Brothers of Italy of Giorgia Meloni arrived first with 25.98% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies, inside the Centre-right coalition (Italy), centre-right coalition, followed by the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party with 19.04%, inside the Centre-left coalition (Italy), centre-left coalition. Qatargate The ongoing Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nello Musumeci
Sebastiano "Nello" Musumeci (born 21 January 1955) is a right-wing Italian politician. Musumeci is serving as Minister for Civil Protection and Maritime Policies since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni. He previously served as List of presidents of Sicily, president of Sicily from 18 November 2017 until 13 October 2022. Musumeci was a Member of the European Parliament for the Italian seat 2004 European Parliament election in Italy#Seats, Islands, where he was a member of the Union for Europe of the Nations, Union for a Europe of Nations parliamentary group. He sat on the European Parliament's European Parliament Committee on Fisheries, Committee on Fisheries and its European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Biography Musumeci was born in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily. At the age of fifteen, Musumeci became a member of Giovane Italia, the youth organization of "Italian Social Movement", a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; 29 September 193612 June 2023) was an Italian Media proprietor, media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013; a member of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic from 2022 until his death in 2023, and previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001. With a net worth of US$6.8 billion in June 2023, Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death. Berlusconi rose into the financial elite of Italy in the late 1960s. He was the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owned the Italian football club AC Milan from 1986 to 2017. He was nicknamed ''Il Cavaliere'' ('The Knight') for his Order of Merit for Labour; he voluntarily resigned f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi (; born 11 January 1975) 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. After serving as the president of the province of Florence from 2004 to 2009 and the mayor of Florence from 2009 to 2014, Renzi was elected secretary of the PD in 2013, becoming prime minister the following year. At the age of 39 years, Renzi, who was at the time the youngest leader in the G7 and also the first-serving mayor to become prime minister, became the youngest person to have served as prime minister. While in power, Renzi's government implemented numerous reforms, including changes to the Italian electoral law, a relaxation of labour and employment laws with the intention of boosting economic growth, a thorough reformation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariastella Gelmini
Mariastella Gelmini (born 1 July 1973) is an Italian politician and attorney (specialised in administrative law). She served as Italian Minister of Education in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet until 16 November 2011. She served as minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the Draghi Cabinet from 2021 to 2022. Career Member of the Forza Italia political movement of Silvio Berlusconi since its foundation in 1994, during the same year she became chairperson of the "Azzurri" club in Desenzano del Garda settling the first representation of Forza Italia in the Province of Brescia. In 1998 she was the first elected in the administrative poll in Desenzano del Garda and became the president of the city council until 2000, in which year a motion of no confidence against her eventually passed. Gelmini passed her bar exam in 2001 in Reggio Calabria, far away from her home town and the university where she graduated, as the academic standards in that city were low and pass rate suspicio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Costa (politician)
Enrico Costa (born 29 November 1969) is an Italian politician and lawyer. His father, Raffaele Costa, was also a politician who was Italian Minister of Health in the first Amato government and the first Berlusconi government. Biography In 2004 he was municipal councillor of Forza Italia in Isasca and on 16 May 2005 he was elected regional councilor of Piedmont. Elected deputy to the Chamber in 2006 on the Forza Italia list in the Piedmont 2 district, he is a member of the Parliamentary Commission for the simplification of legislation. Re-elected in 2008 in the lists of The People of Freedom, he has been chairman of the PDL in the Justice Commission in the Chamber and a member of the Committee for the Authorizations to proceed at Montecitorio and of the Constitutional Affairs Commission. In the Justice Commission he was speaker for the Government of much discussed rules such as the Lodo Alfano, which blocked the judicial processes against the four highest offices of the Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
