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To The Left
To the Left (''A Sinistra'') was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in Italy. It was founded as an electoral list for the election for the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Party of 14 October 2007, comprising Livia Turco, Furio Colombo, Peppino Caldarola, the Democrats, Laicists, Socialists (Massimo Brutti, Sergio Gentili, Mauro Zani), Say Left (Vincenzo Vita, Giuseppe Giulietti, Augusto Battaglia) and some Liberal Socialists ( Annamaria Carli, Giorgio Ruffolo). The list, which was present in only 15 constituencies out of 29, scored 7.7% in the election, electing more than 300 delegates to the Assembly. Its strongholds are the cities and especially Turin (32.7%) and Rome (27.1%). On 5 July 2008, the three groups cited before plus Left for the Country, a group of splinters from Democratic Left and the Party of Italian Communists, merged into the faction, which became a united social-democrat ... [...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] |
Giuseppe Giulietti (politician)
Giuseppe Giulietti (born 19 October 1953) is an Italian journalist, trade unionist and politician. Graduated in history of religions, Giulietti is a journalist at RAI since 1979, after being a reported for ''La domenica sportiva''. He soon began a career in the trade union ''Federazione della Stampa'', founding with other journalists a movement called "Fiesole Group". He became head of the RAI journalists' union ( UsigRai) from 1982 to 1992 and was a member of their Watch Committee from 1990 to 1993. He was first elected to the Italian Parliament in 1994 as an independent within the Progressives centre-left coalition. He was later re-elected as member of the Democratic Left Party, of the Democrats of the Left, and of Italy of Values (2008). He left the IoV group on 29 July 2009. He has been member of the committee on the public service broadcaster, and of the committee on Culture. As an activist for freedom of the press, he founded the '' Articolo 21, liberi di...'' association, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalemiani
Dalemiani referred to the followers of Massimo D'Alema, a former leading member of the Democratic Party, a political party in Italy. The ''Dalemiani'' were generally social democrats who want the party to join the Party of European Socialists. D'Alema organized his faction as Reformists and Democrats, welcoming also some ''Lettiani'' and some Populars. Historic ''Dalemiani'' include Peppino Caldarola, Pier Luigi Bersani, Anna Finocchiaro, Nicola Latorre and Marco Minniti. At the 2009 leadership election D'Alema supported Bersani. However, since his election, Bersani gained autonomy, so that journalists started to talk about ''Bersaniani Bersaniani referred to the followers of Pier Luigi Bersani, a former secretary of the Democratic Party, a political party in Italy. The ''Bersaniani'', who were formerly affiliated with the '' Dalemiani'' (the followers of Massimo D'Alema), repre ...''. References {{Democratic Party factions Democratic Party (Italy) factions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo D'Alema
Massimo D'Alema (; born 20 April 1949) is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). The media has referred to him as ''Leader Maximo'' due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic. Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party and was the first former communist to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former communist prime minister of Italy. Biography D'Alema was born in Rome on 20 April 1949, the son of Giuseppe D'Alema, a communist politician. He is married to Linda Giuva, a professor at the University of Siena, and has two children, Giulia and Francesco. He later became a notable member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), the bulk o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veltroniani
Veltroniani referred to the followers of Walter Veltroni, leader of the Democratic Party, a political party in Italy, from 2007 to 2009. Most of them are social democrats coming from the Democrats of the Left. Apart the core group of ''Veltroniani'', there are some distinct factions within the Democratic Party whose members are usually considered ''veltroniani'': * Liberal PD * Democratic Ecologists *Social Christians During Veltroni's leadership, leading members of the area were Goffredo Bettini, Giorgio Tonini and Enrico Morando. Then there was a group of former '' Rutelliani'', including notably Paolo Gentiloni and Ermete Realacci, who became very close to Veltroni and to his idea of Democratic Party. In strict terms ''Veltroniani'' are generally progressives and modernizers, as opposed to '' Dalemiani'' who are more traditional social democrats. After the departure of Veltroni from party leadership in February 2009, ''Veltroniani'' talked about organizing their faction, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Veltroni
Walter Veltroni (; born 3 July 1955) is an Italian writer, film director, journalist, and politician, who served as the first leader of the Democratic Party within the centre-left opposition, until his resignation on 17 February 2009. He served as Mayor of Rome from June 2001 to February 2008. Early life Veltroni was born in Rome. His father, Vittorio Veltroni, an eminent RAI manager in the 1950s, died only one year later. His mother, Ivanka Kotnik, was the daughter of Ciril Kotnik, a Slovenian diplomat at the Holy See who helped numerous Jews and anti-fascists to escape Nazi persecution after 1943. Political career Veltroni joined the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI) at the age of 15, and was elected Rome city councillor in 1976 as member of the Italian Communist Party, serving until 1981. He was then elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1987. As a member of the Italian Communist Party's national secretariat, in 1988, he played a leading role in the transfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Italian Communists
The Party of Italian Communists ( it, Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, PdCI) was a communist party in Italy established in October 1998 by splinters from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). The split was led by Armando Cossutta, founder and early leader of the PRC, who opposed Fausto Bertinotti's leaderhip and, especially, his decision to withdraw support from Romano Prodi's first cabinet. In December 2014, the party was transformed into Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I), which would later evolve into the re-edition of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). History Foundation and early years In October 1998, the PRC was divided between those who wanted to stop supporting Romano Prodi's first government, led by PRC secretary Fausto Bertinotti; and those who wanted to continue the alliance, led by PRC president Cossutta. The central committee endorsed Bertinotti's line, but Cossutta and his followers decided to support Prodi nonetheless. The votes of ''cossuttiani'' were not en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Left (Italy)
Democratic Left ( it, Sinistra Democratica, SD), whose complete name was Democratic Left. For European Socialism (''Sinistra Democratica. Per il Socialismo Europeo''), was a democratic-socialist political party in Italy. SD was founded on 5 May 2007 by splinters of the Democrats of the Left (DS) led by Fabio Mussi and Gavino Angius, who opposed the merger of the DS with Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy to form the Democratic Party. According to its leading members at its foundation, SD was to be not a party but a movement, with the goal to unite the entire Italian left from Communist Refoundation Party to the Italian Democratic Socialists. On 22–24 October 2010, SD was merged into Left Ecology Freedom. History Foundation In April 2007 the Democrats of the Left (DS) held in Florence their last congress in order to ratify the move towards the foundation of the Democratic Party, along with the centrists of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy. In opposition to Piero Fassino's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left For The Country
Left for the Country (''Sinistra per il Paese'') was a democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy. It was founded by splinters of the Democratic Left (all former members of the left-wing of the late Democrats of the Left) with strong connections with the Italian General Confederation of Labour and some former members of the Party of Italian Communists in February 2008, shortly before the general election. Its leaders included Famiano Crucianelli, Olga D'Antona, Paolo Nerozzi, Massimo Cialente and Gianfranco Pagliarulo. On 5 July 2008 the group merged into To the Left To the Left (''A Sinistra'') was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in Italy. It was founded as an electoral list for the election for the Constituent Assembly of the ..., which became a united social-democratic and democratic-socialist faction within the Democratic Party. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Ruffolo
Giorgio Ruffolo (14 August 1926 – 16 February 2023) was an Italian economist, journalist and politician who held several government posts and was the Italian Minister of the Environment, minister of environment for five years between 1987 and 1992 in four successive cabinets. He was a member of the now defunct Italian Socialist Party and a significant socialist intellectual. He is known to be the founder of economic planning in Italy. Biography Ruffolo was born on 14 August 1926 in Rome. He was part of the Italian Socialist Youth Federation. He headed the research and public relations department of Eni between 1956 and 1962. He joined the Italian Socialist Party and was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1983. Ruffolo was the president and cofounder of the Europa Research Center (Centro Europa Ricerche), a Rome-based research institute in Applied economics, applied economic analysis with a special reference to the central issues for Italian and European economic policy. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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