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2019 Italian Regional Elections
The 2019 Italian regional elections took place in five regions of Italy during 2019: Abruzzo (10 February), Sardinia (24 February), Basilicata (24 March), Piedmont (26 May) and Umbria (27 October Events Pre-1600 * 312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. * 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. * 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia. * 1553 – Condemned as a ...). Overall results Regional councils Presidents of the regions Summary by region Abruzzo Sardinia Basilicata Piedmont Umbria {{Italian elections Elections in Italian regions 2019 elections in Italy February 2019 events in Italy March 2019 events in Italy May 2019 events in Italy October 2019 events in Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abruzzo
Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million. It is divided into four provinces: Province of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Province of Teramo, Teramo, Province of Pescara, Pescara, and Province of Chieti, Chieti. Its western border lies east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and north-west, Molise to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Geographically, Abruzzo is divided into a mountainous area in the west, which includes the highest massifs of the Apennines, such as the Gran Sasso d'Italia and the Maiella, and a coastal area in the east with beaches on the Adriatic Sea. Abruzzo is considered a region of Southern Italy in terms of its culture, language, history, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Marsilio
Marco Marsilio (born 17 February 1968) has been President of Abruzzo since 23 February 2019. Biography Born in Rome to parents from Tocco da Casauria, Abruzzo, Marsilio graduated in Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome and taught Aesthetics, Museology and Marketing applied to Cultural Heritage at the Link Campus University. Between the 1980s and the 1990s, Marsilio took part in student movements and joined the youth movement of National Alliance and was elected to the city council of Rome from 1997 to 2008 for 3 consecutive terms (1997–2001, 2001–2006, 2006–2008). In the 2008 election, Marsilio was elected to the Chamber of Deputies with The People of Freedom, leaving the Silvio Berlusconi's party in December 2012 when he took part in founding the national-conservative party Brothers of Italy led by Giorgia Meloni. Marsilio tried to seek re-election for the Chamber of Deputies in the 2013 election, but failed. In the 2018 election, Marsilio was elected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Legnini
Giovanni Legnini (born 6 January 1959) is an Italian lawyer and politician, former vice president of the High Council of the Judiciary. Biography Legnini graduated with a degree in law from the University of Teramo, and began his career as a lawyer in Chieti, Abruzzo. From 1990 to 2002, Legnini was mayor of his hometown Roccamontepiano, supported by the Alliance of Progressives first and by The Olive Tree later. In 2004, Legnini entered the Senate, taking over the seat of Ottaviano Del Turco who was elected to the European Parliament. Legnini was later re-confirmed to the Senate in 2006 and 2008 and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ... in 2013. After having been undersecretary in the Letta Cabinet and the Renzi Cabinet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lega Per Salvini Premier
Lega ( en, League), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier ( en, League for Salvini Premier; abbr. LSP or LpSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord ( en, Northern League, LN) and, while sharing the latter's heartland in northern Italy, it is active all around the country. The LSP was founded in December 2017 as the sister party of the LN and as a replacement of Us with Salvini (NcS), the LN's previous affiliate in central and southern Italy. The early LSP aimed at offering LN's values and policies to the rest of the country. Some political commentators described it as a parallel party of the LN, with the aim of politically replacing it, also because of its statutory debt of €49 million. Since January 2020 the LN has become mostly inactive, being supplanted by the LSP. It came third in the 2018 general election and first in the 2019 European Parliament election. Like the LN, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donatella Tesei
Donatella Tesei (born 17 June 1958) is an Italian politician and lawyer, currently President of the Umbria region. Biography Tesei is a civil and administrative lawyer. She served as mayor of Montefalco from 2009 to 2019. She joined the right-wing populist League party and served as the member of the Italian Senate from Terni Terni ( , ; lat, Interamna (Nahars)) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is near the border with Lazio. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is ... since 23 March 2018. Tesei was elected President of Umbria at the 2019 regional election and took office on 11 November 2019. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tesei, Donatella 1958 births Living people Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy University of Perugia alumni People from Foligno People from Terni Presidents of Umbria Lega Nord politicians Women mayors of places in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the 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 called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ... 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 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Cirio
Alberto Cirio (born 6 December 1972) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Italy from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the centre-right Forza Italia (2013), Forza Italia. Biography He studied law at the University of Turin. Cirio served as Deputy Mayor of Alba, Piedmont, Alba from 1995 to 2005. In 2005 Piedmontese regional election, 2005 he was elected Regional Council of Piedmont, Regional Councilor of Piedmont. In 2010 Piedmontese regional election, 2010 Cirio was re-elected to the Regional Council. Regional Minister for Education, Tourism and Sport in the Piedmont Region from 2010 to 2014. In the 2014 European Parliament election in Piedmont, 2014 European election he was elected to the European Parliament for the North-West Italy (European Parliament constituency), North-West region. On 26 May 2019 he was elected President of Piedmont, supported by Forza Italia, the Northern League, Brothers of Italy and Union of the Centre (2002), Union of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Chiamparino
Sergio Chiamparino (born 1 September 1948) is an Italian politician. He was President of Piedmont from 2014 to 2019, and was the mayor of Turin, Italy from 2001 to 2011. A graduate in political sciences at the University of Turin, where he worked as a researcher until 1975, Chiamparino started his political career that same year as head of the Italian Communist Party in the Town Council of Moncalieri, his native city. He joined the Democratic Party of the Left on its formation and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996, following a surprise defeat in 1994 to the centre-right candidate Alessandro Meluzzi (a former Freemason who laterly become an Orthodox bishop) in the left-leaning district of Mirafiori. He was elected mayor of Turin in 2001, succeeding to Valentino Castellani Valentino Castellani (born 19 March 1940) was the independent Mayor of Turin, Italy, from 24 June 1993 to 1 June 2001. He is also a noted university professor and alumni of the Polytechnic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forza Italia (2013)
Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Italy" or "Go, Italy!". ''Forza Italia!'' was used as a sport slogan, and was also the slogan of Christian Democracy in the 1987 general election (see Giovanni Baccarin, ''Che fine ha fatto la DC?'', Gregoriana, Padova 2000). See Forza Italia for details. (transl. "Forward Italy", "Come on Italy" or "Let's go Italy"; FI) is a centre-right political party in Italy, whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism, Christian democracy and liberalism. FI is a member of the European People's Party. Silvio Berlusconi (former Prime Minister of Italy, 1994–1995, 2001–2006, and 2008–2011) is the party's leader and president, while Antonio Tajani (former President of the European Parliament, 2017–2019) functions as vice president and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vito Bardi
Vito Bardi (born 18 September 1951) is the 9th and current President of Basilicata since 16 April 2019. Biography Military career Bardi joined the Guardia di Finanza in 1970. He was promoted Colonel, on 31 December 1995, and later Army Corps General in 2009. He served as deputy General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza from 5 September 2013 to 4 September 2014. During his life, Bardi graduated four times in Economy, in Law, in International and Diplomatic Sciences and in Economic and Financial Security Sciences. Political career At the 2019 Basilicata regional election, Bardi was appointed by Silvio Berlusconi himself as the centre-right candidate for the office of President of Basilicata, supported by Forza Italia, the Northern League and Brothers of Italy. Bardi managed to win the elections and became the first centre-right governor of Basilicata in 49 years and after 24 uninterrupted years of centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcello Pittella
Marcello Pittella (born 4 June 1962) is an Italian politician. He has served as President of the Basilicata region from 2013 to 2019. He was formerly a member of the Democratic Party (PD), but is now associated with Carlo Calenda's Action party. Career Born in Lauria, Pittella's father Domenico and brother Gianni were also politicians. Marcello the mayor of Lauria from 2001 to 2005. in April 2005, he was elected to the Basilicata Regional Council and re-elected in 2010. He joined the Basilicata's Regional Government in 2012 as Assessor to productive activity. He was the Vice President from April 2013 to September 2013. On 8 November 2013 he was elected President of Basilicata, succeeding Vito De Filippo Vito De Filippo (born 27 August 1963) is an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party. He served as the president of Basilicata from 6 May 2005 until his resignation on 24 April 2013 during his second term. Biography Born in Sant'Ar .... In January 2015, due to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinian Action Party
The Sardinian Action Party ( sc, Partidu Sardu, it, Partito Sardo d'Azione, PSd'Az or PSdA) is a Sardinian nationalist, regionalist and separatist political party in Sardinia. While being traditionally part of the Sardinian centre-left, the party has also sided with the centre-right coalition and, more recently, with the League. The PSd'Az is one of the oldest stateless nationalist parties active in Europe that promotes autonomy towards the ideal of independence. As such, the party was a founding member of the European Free Alliance in 1984, but was expelled in 2020 because of its alliance with the League. Christian Solinas, who has led the party since 2015, was elected senator in the 2018 general election and President of Sardinia in the 2019 regional election, the first Sardist to do so since Mario Melis in 1984–1989. History The party was founded in April 1921, but soon banned under fascism, and was re-organized after World War II by Emilio Lussu, secretary for South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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