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South Calls North
South calls North (, ScN) is a Regionalism (politics), regionalist and Populism, populist political party in Italy, based in Sicily and led by former mayor of Messina Cateno De Luca. History In 2007, Cateno De Luca, a former Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democrat who had been a member of the Christian Democratic Centre (1994–2002), the Union of the Centre (2002), Union of the Centre (2002–2005) and the Movement for Autonomy (2005–2008), formed Sicilia Vera, which soon became an independent party. In June 2022, in the run-up to the 2022 Sicilian regional election, Sicilian regional election, De Luca, along with former Five Star Movement MEP Dino Giarrusso, launched "South calls North", as a broader political vehicle than Sicilia Vera. However, after a few weeks, Giarrusso left the party due to conflicts with De Luca with regard to the party's candidatures in the following election and De Luca remained the sole leader. ScN took part in the 2022 Italian general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cateno De Luca
Cateno Roberto Salvatore De Luca (born 18 March 1972) is an Italian politician who has been the mayor of Messina from 2018 to 2022 and the mayor of Taormina since 2023. He was also the mayor of Fiumedinisi, his hometown, from 2003 to 2011 and of Santa Teresa di Riva from 2012 to 2017. De Luca began his career at the age of 18 in Christian Democracy (DC), the ruling party of post-war Italy. He often changed political parties, and switched between the DC's successors and other Christian-democratic parties, such as the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) and the Union of the Centre (UdC), and regionalist ones, such as the Movement for Autonomy (MpA) and True Sicily (VS), which he founded as a split from the MpA in 2007. He also switched political alliances, at times allying with the centre-right coalition and at other times supporting the centre-left coalition or neither of the two largest blocs. In 2022, De Luca founded his own national political party, South calls North (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicilia Vera
Sicilia Vera () is a political party active in Sicily, led by Cateno De Luca. "Vera" is also an acronym for ''Verso una Economia Regionale Autonoma'' (). History The party was founded in 2007 by Cateno De Luca, at that time deputy of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. In the 2008 Sicilian regional election, De Luca found an agreement with the Movement for Autonomy (his former party) and was re-elected on its lists. In the 2012 Sicilian regional election De Luca ran for the presidency of the region with his own list, "Sicilian Revolution" (including also Sicilia Vera), but he scored just 1.2% of the vote and was not re-elected. On the occasion of the 2017 Sicilian regional election, Sicilia Vera made an electoral agreement with the Union of the Centre and De Luca was re-elected to the ARS, but on 20 December he left the UDC group and joined the mixed group. In the 2018 Italian local elections, De Luca was elected in the ballot (with 65.3% of the votes) mayor of Messina, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonomism (political Doctrine)
Autonomism is a political doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political autonomy of a nation or a region. It is not necessarily opposed to federalism, and souverainism necessarily implies autonomism, but not vice versa. Examples of autonomist parties include Union Nationale, Action démocratique du Québec and its successor Coalition Avenir Québec (Quebec) and recent (2018) Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta (Alberta) in Canada, New Macau Association in China (Macau), Parti progressiste martiniquais (Martinique) in France, in Italy (Northern Italy) and Popular Democratic Party in the United States (Puerto Rico). Canada Alberta In Alberta, the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta (FCPoA), which was formerly known as Alberta First Party (AFP), Western Freedom Party (WFP), and Separation Party (SP), replaced the party's old ideology Albertan separatism to support promoting Albertan autonomy like Quebec's counterparts, instead as part of the new anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
2024 Sardinian Regional Election
The 2024 Sardinian regional election took place in Italy's Sardinia region on 25 February 2024. The election was for all 60 elected seats of the Regional Council of Sardinia, as well as the president of Sardinia, who automatically became a member of the Regional Council. The election was won by Alessandra Todde, who also became the first female president of Sardina. It was the first election of the 2024 Italian regional elections. A member of the Five Star Movement, Todde led the Centre-left coalition (Italy), centre-left coalition to a narrow win at 45.5% over the Centre-right coalition (Italy), centre-right coalition and Brothers of Italy candidate Paolo Truzzu at 45.0%, with Renato Soru finishing a distant third at 8.7%. It was the first time since the 2015 Campania regional election that the centre-left coalition unseated a centre-right coalition regional president. Although Truzzu was not the incumbent president, having taken the place of Christian Solinas, the incumbent pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shared Horizon
Shared Horizon (, abbr. OC) is a regionalist political party active in Sardinia, led by Franco Cuccureddu. Countrywide, OC is aligned with South calls North, led by Cateno De Luca. Cuccureddu, who had previously been a leading member and deputy secretary of the Movement for the Autonomies, a regional councillor in 2009–2014 and the leader of Civic Sardinia (which had taken part to the 2019 regional election within the centre-right coalition, obtaining 1.6% of the vote and one seat), launched the new party and announced that it would be part of the centre-left coalition. In the 2024 regional election, OC won 3.0% of the vote and three seats in the Regional Council of Sardinia, for Cuccureddu, Sandro Porcu and Salvatore Cau. After the election, in which the centre-left candidate Alessandra Todde of the Five Star Movement was narrowly elected president of Sardinia, Cuccureddu was appointed regional minister of Tourism, Craftmanship and Commerce in the new regional governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km south of the French island of Corsica. It has over 1.5 million inhabitants as of 2025. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of Autonomous administrative division, domestic autonomy being granted by a Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian language, Italian and Sardinian language, Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces of Italy, provinces and a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city. Its capital (and largest city) is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese dialect, Algherese Catalan language, Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of ... [...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] |
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] |
Renato Schifani
Renato Maria Giuseppe Schifani (; born 11 May 1950) is an Italian politician who has served as the president of Sicily since 13 October 2022. Schifani was Silvio Berlusconi's chief whip and was a prominent member of the Senate of the Republic from 1996 to 2022. From 29 April 2008 to 14 March 2013, he was the president of the Senate of the Republic. Initially a member of Christian Democracy, the ruling party of post-war Italy, Schifani joined Berlusconi's Forza Italia in 1995. He joined The People of Freedom when it succeeded FI as Berlusconi's party in 2009. He then joined the New Centre-Right party but left it in 2016 for the reformed Forza Italia. He won the 2022 Sicilian regional election and was elected president of the region. During his career, Schifani has been the subject of Sicilian Mafia allegations. On at least two occasions, he had been associated with people who were convicted of Mafia offences, though Schifani has never been directly investigated or indicted fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafne Musolino
''Dafne'' is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, based on an earlier intermedio created in 1589, "Combattimento di Apollo col serpente Pitone," and set to music by Luca Marenzio, survives complete. The opera is considered to be the first "modern music drama." The mostly lost music was completed by Jacopo Peri, but at least two of the six surviving fragments are by Jacopo Corsi. ''Dafne'' was first performed during Carnival of 1598 (1597 old style) at the Palazzo Corsi. History Most of Peri's music has been lost, despite its popularity and fame in Europe at the time of its composition, but the 455-line verse libretto was published and survives. Florence's ruling Medici family was sufficiently taken with ''Dafne'' to allow Peri's next work, ''Euridice'', to be performed as part of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV's wedding celebrations in 1600. The opera was written for an elite circle of humanists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Italian General Election
Snap election, Snap general elections were held in Italy on 25 September 2022. After the fall of the Draghi government, which led to a parliamentary impasse, President of Italy, President Sergio Mattarella dissolved Parliament on 21 July, and called for new elections. 2022 Sicilian regional election, Regional elections in Sicily were held on the same day. The results of the general election showed the Centre-right coalition (Italy), centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy, a National conservatism, national-conservative party, winning an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. Meloni was appointed Prime Minister of Italy on 22 October, becoming the first woman to hold the office. In a record-low voter turnout, Meloni's party became the largest in Parliament with 26% of the vote; as per the pre-election agreement among the centre-right coalition parties, she became the prime ministerial candidate supported by the winning coalition. The Lega (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
