Piazza Grande is a

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and

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movement within the

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(PD), a

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. Its leader is Nicola Zingaretti, President of

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region since 2013 and current leader of the PD. He is considered a social democrat and one of the most prominent members of the party's left-wing. Piazza Grande's members are also known as ''Zingarettiani'' from the name of their leader.

History

The movement, which has never been organised as a formal faction, grew around Nicola Zingaretti, in late 2018. Born in 1965, Zingaretti became, during the 1990s, a prominent European youth leader, serving as National Secretary of the Left Youth, the youth-wing of the

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and as President of

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. In 2004, he was elected

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for the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree. Then, from 2008 he served as President of the

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, until 2013, when he was elected President of Lazio. On 4 March 2018, Zingaretti was narrowly re-elected president with 1,018,736 votes (32.9%), defeating the centre-right candidate

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(31.2%) and the Five Star's Roberta Lombardi (27%). Despite the small margin of victory, Zingaretti's win was seen as a strong showing due to the poor electoral result of the centre-left coalition in the

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which was held in the same day. After the election defeat, the Democratic leader,

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, resigned from secretary, his deputy

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started functioning as acting secretary and a new leadership election was called for early 2019. On 7 July 2018, Nicola Zingaretti announced his intention to run as new party's leader. In August 2018, Zingaretti launched the political convention in support of his candidacy, named Piazza Grande, which was held in Rome in October. Zingaretti's campaign was based on a

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platform, whose aim was to abandon the

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and

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policies promoted by Matteo Renzi and to move the Democratic Party more on the left. The campaign's main themes were

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and fight to

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Symbols

Logo Piazza Grande.jpg, Piazza Grande logo Nicola Zingaretti Logo.png, Zingaretti's campaign logo

References

External links

Nicola Zingaretti websitePiazza Grande websitePiazzaWeb website
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