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Senato Della Repubblica
The Senate of the Republic (), or simply the Senate ( ), is the upper house of the bicameral Italian Parliament, the lower house being the Chamber of Deputies. The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical functions, but do so separately. Pursuant to the Articles 57, 58, and 59 of the Italian Constitution, the Senate has 200 elective members, of which 196 are elected from Italian constituencies, and 4 from Italian citizens living abroad. Furthermore, a small number (currently 5) serve as senators for life (''senatori a vita''), either appointed or ''ex officio''. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as ''Senato del Regno'' ( Senate of the Kingdom), itself a continuation of the ''Senato Subalpino'' ( Subalpine Senate) of Sardinia established on 8 May 1848. Members of the Senate are styled ''Senator'' or ''The Honourable Senator'' (Italian: ''Onorevole Senatore'') and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislature XIX Of Italy
The Legislature XIX of Italian Republic () is the 19th and current Italian Parliament, which was elected at the 2022 Italian general election, 2022 general election on 25 September and convened on 12 October. As per the 2020 Italian constitutional referendum, the size of the Chamber of Deputies was reduced from 630 to 400, and the Senate's elective membership was reduced from 315 to 200 (for a total of 205 Senators, including appointed Senators for life in Italy, life members). The largest party in both chambers is Brothers of Italy, led by Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The Centre-right coalition (Italy), centre-right coalition supporting the Meloni government controls a majority in both chambers Government Current composition Chamber of Deputies * President of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), President: Lorenzo Fontana (Lega (political party), LSP), elected on 14 October 2022 * Vice Presidents: Anna Ascani (Democratic Party (Italy), PD), Sergio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civics Of Italy
Civics of Italy (, Cd'I), officially Civics of Italy – UDC – Us Moderates ( Us with Italy, Coraggio Italia, Italy in the Centre) – MAIE – Popular Centre (), is a centre-right parliamentary group in the Senate of the Republic, established in the XIX legislature of the Italian Parliament on 18 October 2022. History The group was established on 18 October 2022 by six senators elected with the center-right coalition, which had won the 2022 Italian general election on 25 September. Two members had been elected with Us Moderates (a list which would become a political party afterwards), one for the Associative Movement of Italians Abroad and the other three, for technical reasons, hailed from Brothers of Italy Brothers of Italy (, FdI) is a National conservatism, national-conservative and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Italy, that is currently the country's ruling party. After becoming the largest party in the 2022 Ita ..., the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greens (South Tyrol)
The Greens (''––'') are a green (with eco-socialist and self-proclaimed social-democratic tendencies) political party active in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Once the provincial section of the Federation of the Greens, the party is now autonomous and often forms different alliances at the country-level, but both joined Green Europe, a coalition of green parties for the 2019 European Parliament election, and the Greens and Left Alliance, a coalition with Italian Left for the 2022 general election. The Greens are inter-ethnic and strive to improve relations between the three language groups of the Province: Italian-, German- and Ladin-speakers. Since 2024, the party's spokespersons have been Luca Bertolini and Elide Mussner. History The Greens have their roots in the New Left and the environmental movements of the 1970s. They started to compete in elections in 1978, but were formally registered as a party only in 1996. From 1978 to 1996 they used different names: New Left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campobase
Campobase () is a regionalist and centrist political party, in the Christian-democratic tradition, in Trentino, Italy. Its informal leader is Lorenzo Dellai, a former three-term president of Trentino (1999–2012). The party is the heir of the Daisy Civic List (1998–2008) and the Union for Trentino (2008–2022), and is part of the centre-left coalition both in Trentino and the Italian Parliament. History After the defeat of the centre-left and the Union for Trentino (UpT) especially in the 2018 provincial election, the idea of a new party unifying the UpT, local civic lists and individual centrists floated for years, until the proposal of a "Campobase" was conceived by Lorenzo Dellai in November 2021. Campobase was launched in February 2022, under the leadership of coordinator Michael Rech (mayor of Folgaria) and Chiara Maule (vice president of the UpT). Other than Dellai, leading members of the founding committee included Annalisa Caumo (president of the UpT), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Spagnolli
Luigi Spagnolli (born 10 February 1960) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served as Mayor of Bolzano for three terms from 2005 to 2015. See also * 2005 Italian local elections * 2010 Italian local elections * 2015 Italian local elections * List of mayors of Bolzano References External links * 1960 births Living people Mayors of Bolzano Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Senators of Legislature XIX of Italy 20th-century Italian politicians {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Tyrolean People's Party
The South Tyrolean People's Party (, SVP) is a regionalism (politics), regionalist and mostly Christian democracy, Christian-democratic list of political parties in South Tyrol, political party in South Tyrol, an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous Provinces of Italy, province with a German language, German-speaking majority in northern Italy. Dieter Steger has been party leader since 2024, while party member Arno Kompatscher has been List of governors of South Tyrol, governor of South Tyrol since 2014. Founded on 8 May 1945, the SVP has roots in the Deutscher Verband, a confederation of German-speaking parties formed in 1919 after the annexation of South Tyrol by Italy, which shared many of the same leading figures as the early SVP. An ethnic big tent, catch-all party, the SVP is aimed at representing South Tyrol's German-speaking population, as well as Ladin language, Ladin speakers. It is mainly Christian democracy, Christian-democratic, but nevertheless quite divers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Autonomies
For the Autonomies (, Aut) is a heterogeneous, mostly centrist, centre-left and regionalist, parliamentary group which has been active, with slightly different names and compositions, in the Italian Senate since 2001. History The group was formed in May 2001 by six senators representing the northern special-statute autonomous regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (composed of two autonomous provinces, Trentino and South Tyrol) and Aosta Valley, two senators of European Democracy (DE) and senators for life Giulio Andreotti (a long-time Christian Democrat, who was then a member of DE too) and Gianni Agnelli. Instrumental in the formation of the group were Helga Thaler Ausserhofer, who served also as its first president, and Andreotti: the two formed a friendship and a strong political bond, despite their different geographical and political backgrounds. The group has since been home for the regionalist parties usually affiliated with the centre-left Olive Tree (Ulivo) coal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italia Viva
Italia Viva (, IV) is a Liberalism, liberal list of political parties in Italy, 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 (Italy), Democratic Party (PD). As of 2021, Italia Viva is a member of the European Democratic Party. History Background Matteo Renzi started his political career in the Italian People's Party (1994), Italian People's Party (PPI), a Christian democracy, Christian-democratic party, and was elected president of the Province of Florence in 2004. Through Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, the PPI's successor, he joined the centre-left Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD) in 2007 and was elected Mayor of Florence in 2009. A frequent critic of party leadership, especially under Pier Luigi Bersani, Renzi made his name as ''il Rottamatore'' ( or ) of old leaders and ideas, for his advocacy of complete change in the party, as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Ferdinando Casini
Pier Ferdinando Casini (; born 3 December 1955) is an Italian politician. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2006. Casini is the honorary president of the Centrist Democrat International and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. From 1993 to 2001, he served as secretary of Christian Democratic Centre, while from 2002 until 2016 he was the leader of Union of the Centre (2002), Union of the Centre. Being elected to the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies in 1983 for the first time, Casini is the longest-serving member of the parliament in Italy. Early life and career Casini was born in Bologna in 1955. His father Tommaso was an Italian literature teacher and a local leader of the Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democracy (DC), while his mother Mirella was a librarian. Casini has also two sisters and one brother. After having attended the classical lyceum Luigi Galvani, in 1979 he graduated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrists For Europe
Centrists for Europe (; CpE) is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. The party was launched, as Centrists for Italy (; CpI), by splinters from the Union of the Centre in December 2016 and officially founded, with its final name, in February 2017. Pier Ferdinando Casini is the incumbent leader of the party. History In the run-up of the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, the Union of the Centre (UdC) chose to campaign for "No", while the New Centre-Right, the UdC's counterpart in Popular Area (AP), was among the keenest supporters of "Yes". After the referendum, which saw a huge defeat of the "Yes" side, the UdC left AP altogether. However, some UdC splinters, notably including Pier Ferdinando Casini, Gianpiero D'Alia (who had previously launched Centrists for Sicily) and minister Gian Luca Galletti, launched "Centrists for Italy" and confirmed their alliance with the NCD within Popular Area. The party was officially founded, with the current name, in Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party – Democratic And Progressive Italy
Democratic Party – Democratic and Progressive Italy (; PD–IDP) is the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party (PD) and minor allied parties in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, formed in October 2022. Prior to the formation of the group, its name was that of the lead electoral list of the centre-left coalition in the 2022 Italian general election. History In July 2022, the centre-right coalition was forecast to win a parliamentary absolute majority under the '' Rosatellum'' electoral law of 2017, which was pushed by the Democratic Party (PD) under Matteo Renzi's leadership and was now rejected by the party under the leadership of Enrico Letta. Some early opinion polling for the 2022 Italian general election showed that the only way to avoid a right-wing alliance victory was the formation of a large big tent coalition including the PD, minor left-wing and centrist parties, and the PD's 2019–2021 government ally, the Five Star Movement (M5S). A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associative Movement Of Italians Abroad
The Associative Movement of Italians Abroad () is an list of political parties in Italy, Italian political party representing Italians abroad. Based in Argentina and active mainly in South America, the MAIE is a centrism, centrist party. History The party emerged from the split of the liberal wing of the Italian Associations in South America (AISA) in 2008. In the 2008 Italian general election, 2008 general election, the MAIE won one seat in the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies for Ricardo Antonio Merlo (elected to the Chamber for AISA in 2006 Italian general election, 2006), and a one seat in the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate for Mirella Giai, a former member and candidate of the Democrats of the Left (DS). Both Merlo and Giai joined forces with centrist and centre-right groups, notably including the Liberal Democrats (Italy), Liberal Democrats (LD), with whom the MAIE formed a joint electoral list for the 2009 European Parliament election in Italy, 2009 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
