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List Of Democratic Party Of Italy Politicians
A list of notable politicians of the Democratic Party of Italy: A * Marisa Abbondanzieri * Nicola Adamo * Mauro Agostini * Giuliano Amato * Alfonso Andria * Salvo Andò *Giuseppe Ayala B *Augusto Barbera *Franco Bassanini * Antonio Bassolino *Giorgio Benvenuto * Luigi Berlinguer * Rita Bernardini * Pier Luigi Bersani * Giovanni Bianchi * Enzo Bianco *Gerardo Bianco * Rosy Bindi * Paola Binetti * Guido Bodrato * Rita Borsellino * Mercedes Bresso *Claudio Burlando C * Massimo Cacciari *Massimo Calearo * Salvatore Cardinale * Pierre Carniti *Salvatore Caronna *Patrizia Casagrande Esposto *Pierluigi Castagnetti * Luca Ceriscioli * Sergio Chiamparino *Carlo Azeglio Ciampi *Graziano Cioni * Giuseppe Civati * Luigi Cocilovo * Sergio Cofferati * Tommaso Coletti *Paola Concia * Rosario Crocetta * Gianni Cuperlo D *Massimo D'Alema * Luciano D'Alfonso * Sergio D'Antoni * Pier Giorgio Dall'Acqua * Cesare Damiano * Ciriaco De Mita * Ottaviano Del Turco *Flavio Delbono *Lorenzo Dellai * Graz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Italy)
The Democratic Party ( it, Partito Democratico , PD) is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Enrico Letta, who was elected by the national assembly in March 2021, after the resignation of the former leader Nicola Zingaretti, while its president is Valentina Cuppi. The PD was established in 2007 upon the merger of various centre-left parties which had been part of The Olive Tree list in the 2006 general election, mainly the social-democratic Democrats of the Left (DS), successor of the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left, which was folded with several social-democratic parties ( Labour Federation and Social Christians, among others) in 1998, as well as the largely Catholic-inspired Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL), a merger of the Italian People's Party (heir of the Christian Democracy party's left wing), The Democrats and Italian Renewal in 2002. While the party has also been influenced by social liberalism an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Bianco
Gerardo Bianco (12 September 1931 – 1 December 2022) was an Italian politician. Early life Bianco was born in Guardia Lombardi, Campania in Italy. Winner of a scholarship at the Augustinianum College of Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, he graduated in classical letters. Career Bianco has been Deputy from 1968 to 1994 and from 2001 to 2008, chairman of Christian Democracy (''Democrazia Cristiana''; DC) in the Chamber from 1979 to 1983 and from 1992 to 1994, Vice-President of Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 1990 and MEP from 1994 to 1999. He also served as Minister of Education in the Andreotti VI Cabinet. In 1995 he opposed the Secretary of the Italian People's Party (PPI), Rocco Buttiglione, for his approach to the centre-right during the regional elections that year. Bianco was subsequently elected Secretary of the PPI while Buttiglione founded a new party, the United Christian Democrats (CDU). He remained Secretary until 1997, the year he became president of PPI. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierluigi Castagnetti
Pierluigi Castagnetti (born 9 June 1945, in Reggio nell'Emilia) is an Italian politician. Biography Graduated in Political science, in the 1970s he was collaborator of Giuseppe Dossetti, then of Benigno Zaccagnini and Mino Martinazzoli. In 1980 he was elected region councillor in Emilia-Romagna and two years later he became regional secretary of Christian Democracy. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in the 1987 Italian general election, Castagnetti was re-elected also in the general election of 1992, while in the 1994 European Parliament election he was elected MEP. In 1991, he was among the members of DC who voted against Italy's participation in the Gulf War. In the Italian People's Party's congress of 1997, Castagnetti was beaten by Franco Marini for the appointment as secretary of the party, but in 1999 he managed to become the party's leader by beating Dario Franceschini and Ortensio Zecchino. Re-elected deputy in the 2001 Italian general election, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrizia Casagrande Esposto
Patrizia Casagrande Esposto (26 October 1951 – 12 December 2017) was an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party. She served as the President of the Province of Ancona The province of Ancona ( it, provincia di Ancona) is a province in the Marche region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Ancona, and the province borders the Adriatic Sea. The city of Ancona is also the capital of Marche. To the north, t ... from 28 May 2007 until 12 October 2014. Casagrande died on 12 December 2017, at the age of 66. References 1951 births 2017 deaths Presidents of the Province of Ancona Democratic Party (Italy) politicians 21st-century Italian politicians 21st-century Italian women politicians People from Senigallia {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Caronna
Salvatore Caronna (born 5 March 1964, in Bad Säckingen) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Biography Caronna's interest in politics began when he was young and joined the student movement. After that experience, he had the opportunity to join student organizations at the national level. In 1986, he assumed the post of secretary of the Communist Youth Federation of Bologna (where he had studied). He was president of the Arci Bolognese from 1989 to 1993 and national manager of the association. In December 1999, on the day of the defeat of the center-left in Bologna, he was elected secretary of the Democrats of the Left, a position that he held until the end of June 2006. After that time, the center-left returned to govern Bologna. He was first elected to the Consiglio Communale in Bologna, and served as regional adviser of Emilia-Romagna from 2005 to 2009. In the primary elections of October 14, 2007, Caronna was elected regional secretary o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Carniti
Pierre Carniti (25 September 1936 – 5 June 2018) was an Italian politician and trade unionist. Carniti was born in Castelleone, in the province of Cremona, Lombardy. He was general secretary of CISL, the major Catholic trade union federation, between 1979 and 1985. Unlike most other CISL leaders, who were aligned with Christian Democracy, Carniti was a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Carniti was president of the Parliamentary Commission on Poverty from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999, associated with the Party of European Socialists. In 1993, with Ermanno Gorrieri, he left the PSI to co-found the socialist party Social Christians (CS). See also * Christian Left The Christian left is a range of left-wing Christian political and social movements that largely embrace social justice principles and uphold a social doctrine or social gospel. Given the inherent diversity in international political thoug ... Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Cardinale
Salvatore Cardinale (born 20 June 1948) is an Italian politician. Biography Graduated in law in 1972, he practiced the profession of lawyer at the court and the Court of Appeal of Caltanissetta and began political life in the youth movement of the Christian Democracy. In the 1980s he became Mayor of Mussomeli and provincial secretary of the DC of Caltanissetta. In 1987 and 1992 he was elected Deputy among the ranks of the Christian Democracy and from 1992 to 1994 he was also secretary of the Democratic parliamentary group in Montecitorio. In 1994 he was among the founders of the Christian Democratic Centre, with which he confirmed his parliamentary seat in the elections of 1994 and 1996. For a short time he was regional secretary of the CCD in Sicily and did not vote for trust to the first Prodi government. In February 1998 he participated in the birth of the Democratic Union for the Republic and was appointed Minister of Communications in the first and second D'Alema governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Calearo
Massimo Calearo Ciman (born 23 November 1955 in Vicenza) is an Italian entrepreneur and former politician from Veneto. Chairman of Calearo Antenne spa, the family company producing antennas. Before entering politics he held several leadership roles within ''Confindustria'', at local and national level. Despite being a liberal-conservative, at the Italian general election, 2008 (Veneto), 2008 general election Calearo headed the list of the centre-left Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD) and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies. However he soon found that the party was too left-wing for him and in November 2009 took part to the foundation of Alliance for Italy (ApI) with Francesco Rutelli. After having launched Alliance for Veneto (ApV) in April 2010, in September Calearo left ApI in order to support Silvio Berlusconi's Berlusconi IV Cabinet, government. References Politicians of Veneto 1955 births Living people People from Vicenza Democratic Party (Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Cacciari
Massimo Cacciari (; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher, politician and public intellectual. Biography Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a thesis on Immanuel Kant's ''Critique of Judgment''. In 1985, he became professor of Aesthetics at the Architecture Institute of Venice. In 2002, he founded the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, where he was appointed Dean of the Department in 2005. Cacciari has founded several philosophical reviews and published essays centered on the "negative thought" inspired by authors like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the 1980s, Cacciari also worked with the Italian composer of avant-garde contemporary/classical music Luigi Nono. Nono, a political activist whose music represented a revolt against bourgeois cultural constructs, collaborated with Cacciari, who arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Burlando
Claudio Burlando (born 27 April 1954, in Genoa) is an Italian politician, and was President of Liguria, until 31 March 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a former Democrats of the Left member. Career After graduating with a degree in electronic engineering, in the eighties he worked as a researcher for the company Elsag-Bailey. He became interested in politics from a young age, adhering to the Italian Communist Party with which he took his first steps in politics and he held the first public office, becoming secretary of the federation Genoese party from 1989 to 1990. He later joined the Democratic Party of the Left, with which he was elected to Parliament and has held the position of national coordinator of local authorities (1994-1996) and the Democrats of the Left, of which he was chief economist from 1998 to 2000. With the Communist Party, he became councilor (1981-1993) and Commissioner for Transport (1983-1985). He was deputy mayor of Genoa (1990-1992, du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Bresso
Mercedes Bresso (born 12 July 1944) is an Italian politician (Democratic Party) who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2019. Early life and career Bresso was born in Sanremo, Province of Imperia, Liguria. In 1969, she received her degree in Economics; since 1973, she is a university professor of economic institutions at the Politecnico di Torino (Faculty of Engineering). Political career From 1989 onwards, Bresso was a member of the provincial, regional and national party executives of the Democrats of the Left. 1995–2004, she was the President of the Turin Province, and, a Member of Regional Council (1985–1995) and of the Regional Executive (1994–1995) with responsibility for regional planning in Piedmont. She was a member of the Committee of the Regions and its Bureau 1998–2004. Between 2005 and 2010, she was President of the Piedmont region. Since 2002, she is the Italian Vice-Chairperson of AICCRE; 2000–2004, she was Chairperson of the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Borsellino
Rita Borsellino (; 2 June 1945 – 15 August 2018) was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Democratic Party. Early life Borsellino was born in Palermo, Sicily, and worked there as a pharmacist. In July 1992 her brother, Judge Paolo Borsellino, was killed by the Mafia in a bomb explosion. She began to organise and participate in events such as public debates, rallies and protests against organised crime. These included events in France and Germany, such as an event in 1994 in Paris with the Argentinian organisation Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Political career In 1994 she was invited to join Libera, an Italian NGO working against organised crime. In 1995 she became vice-president of the organisation and in 2005 she was named honorary president. Borsellino was also active in the peace movement, attending international peace conferences in 2000 and 2002. In 1998 she became presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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