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Green Front
The Green Front ( it, Fronte Verde, FV), whose complete name is Green Front – Independent Ecologists ( it, Fronte Verde – Ecologisti Indipendenti, FVEI), is a small green political party in Italy, led by Vincenzo Galizia, a former leader of the "National Youth" (the youth wing of the neo-fascist Tricolour Flame party). The symbol of the party is a stylized archer. The Green Front does not declare itself to be of right-wing nor left-wing: it declares to be inspired "by a spiritual conception of life". The party is in favor of direct democracy, anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist, anti-globalization and the self-determination of the peoples. At the 2008 general election, the party presented its symbol, declaring to run without allying with other parties. However, the party's president invited his electors to vote the For the Common Good electoral list, led by Stefano Montanari and former senator Fernando Rossi. The list got 0.3% of the vote. At the 2009 European election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Galizia
Vincenzo is an Italian male given name, derived from the Latin name Vincentius (the verb ''vincere'' means to win or to conquer). Notable people with the name include: Art *Vincenzo Amato (born 1966), Italian actor and sculptor * Vincenzo Bellavere (c.1540-1541 – 1587), Italian composer * Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835), Italian composer * Vincenzo Camuccini (1771–1844), Italian academic painter * Vincenzo Catena (c. 1470 – 1531), Italian painter *Vincenzo Cerami (1940–2013), Italian screenwriter * Vincenzo Consolo (1933–2012), Italian writer * Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718), Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist *Vincenzo Crocitti (1949–2010), Italian cinema and television actor * Vincenzo Dimech (1768–1831), Maltese sculptor * Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591), composer, lutenist, and music theorist, father of Galileo * Vincenzo Marra (born 1972), Italian filmmaker * Vincenzo Migliaro (1858–1938), Italian painter * Vincenzo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-nuclear Movement
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, or international level.Fox ButterfieldProfessional Groups Flocking to Antinuclear Drive ''The New York Times'', 27 March 1982. Major anti-nuclear groups include Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Peace Action, Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. The initial objective of the movement was nuclear disarmament, though since the late 1960s opposition has included the use of nuclear power. Many anti-nuclear groups oppose both nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The formation of green parties in the 1970s and 1980s was often a direct result of anti-nuclear politics.John Barry and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 European Parliament Election In Italy
The 2014 European Parliament election in Italy took place on 25 May 2014. Italy elected 73 MEPs out of 751 European Parliament seats. The governing Democratic Party (PD) won the election with 40.8% of the vote and 31 seats, followed by the Five Star Movement (21.2% and 17 seats) and Forza Italia (16.8% and 13 seats). As a result, the PD was the second largest national party in the European Parliament by number of seats after the German CDU/CSU and the largest among the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. The PD's score was also the best result for an Italian party in a nationwide election since the 1958 general election, when the Christian Democracy won 42.4% of the vote. The other parties that have passed the national electoral threshold at 4% are Northern League (6.2% and 5 seats), New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre (4.4% and 3 seats) and The Other Europe (4.0% and 3 seats). The parties that haven't passed the electoral threshold and that haven't gain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Zingaretti
Nicola Zingaretti (; born 11 October 1965) is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio and was Secretary of the Democratic Party from March 2019 until March 2021. During the 1990s, he was a prominent European youth leader, serving as National Secretary of the Left Youth, the youth-wing of the Democratic Party of the Left and as President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. In 2004, Zingaretti became a Member of the European Parliament for the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree. From 2008 to 2012, he served as President of the Province of Rome. Zingaretti is considered a social democrat and one of the most prominent members of the party's left-wing. Moreover, he is the longest-serving President of Lazio as well as the first one to be re-elected after a first five-year term. He is the brother of the actor Luca Zingaretti, who plays Salvo Montalbano in the '' Inspector Montalbano'' television series. Early life Nicola Zingaretti was born in Rome in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Storace
Francesco Storace (born 25 January 1959 in Cassino, Lazio) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography He began his career at the right-wing newspaper ''Il Secolo d'Italia'', until entering the ranks of the neo-fascist party Italian Social Movement (MSI) and later of National Alliance (AN) after repudiation of extremism. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1994. At the time he was the spokesman of Gianfranco Fini. From 1996 to 2000 he was chairman of the bicameral Commission supervising the RAI. In April 2000, he was elected President of Lazio. Among measures taken by Storace there was the opening of Sant'Andrea hospital and other health centers.Paghiamo ancora i debiti di Badaloni'', "Il quotidiano della Tuscia"]. His health management of Lazio won praise for Giulio Andreotti and some members of the Vatican curia. In 2005 he failed the re-election, defeated by the centre-left candidate Piero Marrazzo. He was subsequently named Minister of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Lazio Regional Election
The Lazio regional election of 2013 took place in Lazio, Italy, on 24–25 February 2013. Renata Polverini of The People of Freedom (PdL), who was elected president in 2010, was toppled by an expense scandal in October 2012 which led to her resignation. After that, the candidate of Democratic Party (PD) seemed a shoo-in for victory. In December 2012, the Commissioner of the Province of Rome, Nicola Zingaretti, decided to run as Governor of Lazio for 2013 regional election. As Lazio had been a traditional stronghold of National Alliance party, the former president Francesco Storace, secretary of the national-conservative party The Right and supported by Silvio Berlusconi's coalition, was chosen for the center-right coalition. The other candidates were Davide Barillari ( M5S), who received the 20% of the votes, Giulia Bongiorno ( Civic Choice) and Alessandro Ruotolo (Civil Revolution). Electoral system The Regional Council is elected with a mixed system: 39 MPs are chosen wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Melchiorre
Daniela Melchiorre (born 12 May 1970 in Rome) is an Italian magistrate and politician. Biography Daughter of a general of the Guardia di Finanza, Daniela Melchiorre is married and mother of a daughter. She obtained the classical maturity at the Istituto Di Cagno Abbrescia of the Jesuit Fathers and graduated with honors in jurisprudence in Bari. In 1998 he joined the military judiciary, working as Deputy Military Prosecutor of the Republic in Verona and later in Turin. On 18 May 2006 she was appointed Undersecretary of State for Justice in the Prodi II Government. In 2008 she was elected MP among the ranks of The People of Freedom, as member of the Liberal Democrats of Lamberto Dini. On 5 June 2008 she was appointed President of the Liberal Democrats and on 19 November of the same year she passed to the opposition of the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. On 5 April 2011, the Chamber of Deputies asked to raise a conflict of attribution on the proceeding against the Prime Minister Silvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democrats (Italy)
The Liberal Democrats ( it, Liberal Democratici, LD), whose complete name is Liberal Democrats for Renewal (''Liberal Democratici per il Rinnovamento''), is a liberalism, liberal and centrism, centrist List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. The party, whose current leader is Italo Tanoni, traces its roots in Italian Renewal, which was folded into Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy in 2002. Italian Renewal's and the Liberal Democrats' leader was Lamberto Dini, who had previously served as Director-General of the Bank of Italy (1979–1994) under Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Minister of Economy and Finances, Minister of the Treasury (1994–1995) under Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister (1995–1996) and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1996–2001) under Romano Prodi, Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Amato. In the run-up of the foundation of the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party in 2007, Dini and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 European Parliament Election In Italy
The 2009 European Parliament election in Italy was held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June 2009, as decided by the Italian government on 18 December 2008. Italy elected 72 members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Electoral system The party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic from its establishment in 1946 to 1994, therefore it was also adopted to elect the Italian members of the European Parliament (MEPs) since 1979. Two levels were introduced: a national level to divide the seats among parties and a constituency level to distribute them among candidates in open lists. Five constituencies were established, each including 2–5 regions and each electing a fixed number of MEPs. At national level, seats are divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. Seats are allocated to parties and then to their most voted candidates. In the run-up of the election, the Italian Parliament has introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Rossi
Fernando Rossi (born 3 September 1946) is an Italian politician. Born in Portomaggiore, he was elected to represent the Marche region at the 2006 Italian general election for the Party of Italian Communists (PdCI). Due to his opposition to the party line and the treasury in an interview with ''Il Giornale'', he was expelled from the PdCI. In February 2007, Rossi and Franco Turigliatto were the two representatives from The Union coalition who abstained from a key vote on the foreign policy position outlined by Massimo D'Alema, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Following this, he joined the United Consumers The United Consumers (''Consumatori Uniti'') was a political party in Italy led by Bruno De Vita. In the 2006 general election the party was affiliated to The Union, the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi. The United Consumers contested th ... group, and later founded his own party, the Citizens' Political Movement. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi, Fernando 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Common Good
For the Common Good (''Per il Bene Comune'', PBC) was a left-wing politics, left-wing electoral list in Italy. Its leader was Stefano Montanari. The list, that ran in the 2008 Italian general election, 2008 general election, was supported by: *Citizens' Political Movement (''Movimento Politico dei Cittadini'') — a left-wing populism, left-wing populist party formed by senator Fernando Rossi, a former member of the Party of Italian Communists, in September 2007; *Federation of Liberal Democrats (''Federazione dei Liberaldemocratici'') — a Social liberalism, social-liberal party formed by Marco Marsili in October 2003; *Humanist Party (Italy), Humanist Party (''Partito Umanista'') — a member party of the Humanist Movement; *Green Front (''Fronte Verde'') — a Green politics, green party led by Vincenzo Galizia, former leader of the youth wing of the Tricolour Flame party. In the 2008 general election the list won 0.33% of the vote (119.569 votes) for the Chamber of Deputies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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