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52-493: The Open Foundation , whose Secretary-General is Maria Elena Boschi , served as think tank and financial arm of the faction. It was later replaced by the Matteo Renzi Foundation . The faction, which has never been organised as a formal faction, grew around Matteo Renzi . Born in 1975, Matteo Renzi is a devout Catholic (he was a scout leader of AGESCI ) and a centrist . He started his political career in

104-775: A classical education in high school Francesco Petrarca of Arezzo and passed the final exam with 100/100. Then she graduated with 110/110 cum laude in Law at the University of Florence . She was a member of the Examining Board of Civil Law of the School of Specialization for the Legal Professions of Florence. Moreover, Boschi was a member of the Publiacqua Board , a company in charge of water management for

156-538: A few types of bills, including the constitutional bills, constitutional amendments, laws regarding local interests, referendums and the protection of linguistic minorities, would need to be passed by the Senate; the Senate could only propose amendments to bills in some cases, with the Chamber of Deputies always having the final word; and the membership of the Senate would be changed, with regional representatives appointed in

208-505: A gap of almost 33,000 votes from his opponent. At the end of 2009, rumors rose up around Emiliano's candidacy at the head of centre-left candidate for the presidency of Apulia in the 2010 Apulian regional election . The Union of the Centre (UdC) refused to accept the candidacy of incumbent governor Nichi Vendola , a democratic socialist. UdC's leader Pier Ferdinando Casini proposed to the PD

260-461: A manner virtually identical to Germany's Bundesrat . On 11 March 2014, the Chamber of Deputies approved both the plans to overhaul the Senate and the second stage of Renzi's constitutional reforms, a flagship electoral reform law that would see Italy's voting system overhauled. On 26 March, despite objections raised by several parties in the coalition, the Government won a vote in the Senate on

312-515: A member of Matteo Renzi 's liberal party Italia Viva . Boschi was born in Montevarchi but raised in Laterina , a small town in the province of Arezzo , Tuscany, where her family has lived for generations; daughter of Pierluigi Boschi, owner of the farm Il Palagio , member of dozens of agricultural and wine associations of the territory, provincial director of Coldiretti , board member of

364-577: A new urban plan, with the aims of redevelop the municipal area especially in the suburbs, thanks to investments in the environmental and the transport sector. On 31 May, Emiliano won the 2015 Apulian regional election with more than 47% of votes, doubling the votes of the second candidate, Antonella Laricchia, of the Five Star Movement (M5S). In September 2016, Emiliano signed with the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

416-577: A revolution, and stated that he wanted a party closer to the people, especially the poorest, accusing Renzi of drastically changing the PD and of abandoning people on low incomes. He also accused Andrea Orlando , the other candidate who was Justice Minister also in Renzi's government , of supporting Renzi's liberal and centrist policies, and not to have ever opposed his reforms. Emiliano also added that he would not run to become Prime Minister, as Renzi did from February 2014 to December 2016. Emiliano asked for

468-644: Is the first of three siblings: Emanuele Boschi, a public accountant, and Pierfrancesco Boschi, a civil engineer. Boschi grew up in a fervent Roman Catholic family; she has always participated in the religious life of her parish, as altar girl, catechist, reader, and volunteer; in 1997 she participated in the World Youth Day in Paris and, in 2000, in the one organized in Rome for the Jubilee . Boschi received

520-660: Is the first woman in the history of the Italian Republic to become Minister of Constitutional Reforms and the second as Minister of Relations with the Parliament. Upon becoming Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi stated that one of her most important tasks was to achieve constitutional reforms. The Italian institutional framework had remained essentially unchanged since 1 January 1948, when the Italian Constitution first came into force after being enacted by

572-548: Is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015, and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a populist and regionalist politician. Emiliano's father was a professional football player and small business owner. In 1962, he moved with his family to Bologna . In 1968, they returned to Bari. While growing up there, he spent time playing basketball thanks to his physical size. In 1983, Emiliano graduated in Law at

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624-700: The Camera di Commercio of Arezzo and from 2011 to 2015 director of the Banca Etruria , of which by 2014 was also vice-president, and Stefania Agresti, a headmaster who served three terms in the City Council of Laterina, the last of which as vice-mayor; Stefania Agresti was also a candidate in 2010 regional election in Tuscany for the Democratic Party, but she was not elected. Maria Elena Boschi

676-619: The Constituent Assembly on 22 December 1947. The first stage of reform package aimed to abolish the so-called "perfect bicameralism ", which gave identical powers to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate ; the reforms would substantially decrease the membership and power of the Senate. Under the reforms: the Senate's power to force the resignation of the Government by refusing to grant a vote of confidence would be removed; only

728-473: The Constitutional Court of Italy 's judgement that magistrates are ineligible for party membership, Emiliano announced that he would be resigning from the party. In the run-up of the 2020 regional election , on 12 January 2020, the PD held its primaries in which Governor Emilian resulted as the winner. Following the primaries' victory of Emiliano, considered by Italia Viva (IV) too close to

780-522: The Democratic Party and became a member of Italia Viva. On 18 December 2015, the Chamber of Deputies rejected (with 129 yes and 373 no) a no-confidence motion promoted by the Five Star Movement as a result of the decree "save the banks" issued in November 2015. Among the banks affected by the decision therefore included Banca Etruria , of which Pierluigi Boschi, the father of Maria Elena,

832-561: The Italian People's Party (PPI), a Christian-democratic outfit, and was elected president of the Province of Florence in 2004, when he was just 29. Through The Daisy party he joined the Democratic Party in 2007 and was elected Mayor of Florence in 2009. A frequent critic of his party's leadership, especially under Pier Luigi Bersani , Renzi made his name as "scrapper" (of old leaders and ideas), advocate of complete change in

884-613: The Italicum was given final approval by the Italian Senate on 27 January 2015, thanks to support from Forza Italia Senators. On 28 April 2015, concerned that the reform may not pass, the government announced he would hold a confidence vote to approve the electoral reform changes. The Five Star Movement, Forza Italia and some left-wing Democratic Party members strongly opposed this decision, with some seeking to draw comparisons between Renzi and Benito Mussolini . It would be only

936-407: The Italicum voting system , a proportional representation system with a majority bonus for the party which obtained over 40% of the vote, to provide for stable and long-term government. To approve the new electoral law, which was opposed by the Five Star Movement and a minority of his own Democratic Party, the government gained the support of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , who was still

988-707: The Parliament , from February 2014 to December 2016, delegated to the implementation of the Government Programme of Renzi Cabinet . From 12 December 2016 until 1 June 2018 she was the Secretary of the Council of Ministers , in Gentiloni Cabinet . A Roman catholic , among her supporters she is widely known with the acronym MEB . Boschi left the Democratic Party, and has since 2019 been

1040-712: The Renziani in Always Forward and Back to the Future followed Renzi in Italia Viva, Reformist Base remained within the PD. Maria Elena Boschi Maria Elena Boschi , ( Italian pronunciation: [maˈriːa ˈɛːlena ˈbɔski] ; born 24 January 1981) is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013. As a member of the Democratic Party , Boschi has served as Minister for Constitutional Reforms and Relations with

1092-522: The Senate multiple times, the government announced that he would hold a constitutional referendum in December 2016 to seek approval for the changes; since the reform was not approved by more than two-thirds of the Parliament, according to article 138 of the Constitution, a referendum could be required. Voters will be asked whether they approve of amending the Italian Constitution to transform

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1144-453: The University of Bari . For some time, he worked as a trainee in a lawyer's office. In 1988, he married his current wife, Elena, with whom he had three children: Giovanni, Francesca and Pietro. At the age of 26, Emiliano quit the practice as a lawyer and passed the test to become a judge. He moved to Agrigento , where he worked in the public prosecutor's office and met Giovanni Falcone and Rosario Livatino . From 1990 to 1995, he worked at

1196-530: The "No", in open opposition to the line of his party. On 4 December, "No" won with 59% of votes and Renzi resigned as Prime Minister. On 21 February 2017, Emiliano announced his candidacy in 2017 PD leadership election , scheduled in April, where he would challenge Renzi. On 10 March, Emiliano presented his electoral programme with the slogans "We Are Party" ( Noi siamo partito ) and "Italy Is Our Party" ( L'Italia è il nostro partito ). He described his candidacy as

1248-705: The Brindisi Public Prosecutor's Office and dealt with the fight against the Mafia . In 1995, he returned to Bari as a deputy prosecutor of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA). He retained this post until 2003, when he became a member of the social-democratic party Democrats of the Left (DS) and run for mayor of Bari for the centre-left coalition . In the local elections, which took place on 12 and 13 June 2004, Emiliano

1300-428: The Future . The latter two were closer to Renzi himself and would mostly follow him out of the PD. On 17 September, during an interview to Italian newspaper la Repubblica , Renzi announced his intention to leave the PD, and create new parliamentary groups led by himself. On the same day, interviewed by Bruno Vespa during the late-night TV talk-show Porta a Porta , he officially launched Italia Viva (IV). Renzi

1352-485: The M5S, Article One (Art.1), Progressive Camp , and Italian Left (SI) supporters to vote for him to beat Renzi; his intention is to build a centre-left to left-wing alliance composed of PD, Art.1, and SI, which can cooperate with the M5S. Despite Emiliano's strong support in the poorer South, Renzi was elected by a landslide, receiving 69% of votes, against 20% of Orlando, and 11% of Emiliano. On 3 December 2018, following

1404-404: The PD, post that he would held until January 2014. Emiliano run again as mayor in the local elections of 6 and 7 June 2009, where he got 49.01% of the votes in the first round, with a gap of just over 6,000 votes on the centre-right candidate and former mayor of Bari Simeone Di Cagno Abbrescia (46.05%). He was confirmed mayor of Bari in the runoff on 21 and 22 June 2009 with 59.8% of votes and with

1456-591: The Senate of the Republic into a "Senate of Regions " composed of 100 senators made up of regional councillors and mayors of large cities. Maria Elena Boschi was appointed by Renzi as the organizer of the "Yes Committees", in favor of the reform. Following early results which indicated that the "No" side was clearly ahead, Renzi conceded defeat and resigned. On 11 December 2016, the Foreign Affairs Minister Paolo Gentiloni

1508-541: The bill reforming the provinces, with 160 voting in favour and 133 against. After several amendments to the initial text, the reform passed the examination of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, whose speakers were Senators Anna Finocchiaro (Democrat) and Roberto Calderoli ( Lega Nord ). Finally on 8 August, the Senate approved the constitutional and electoral reform proposed by the government. In April 2014, Renzi and Boschi proposed that Italy adopt what he called

1560-522: The candidacy of Emiliano, who initially refused; however, after a few days, under pressure from party's bigwigs like Massimo D'Alema and Pier Luigi Bersani , Emiliano was forced to accept the candidacy. Emiliano agreed to carry out primary with Vendola, but he refused to resign as mayor of Bari, asking the Regional Council of Apulia to change a regional law, which prevented incumbent mayors to run for regional governor while in office. Faced with

1612-488: The convention included Sergio Chiamparino , Arturo Parisi , Graziano Delrio , Ermete Realacci , Andrea Marcucci and Roberto Giachetti , but most of the speakers were people from the civil society, mainly entrepreneurs, artists and intellectuals. Among the ideas espoused by Renzi and his fellow Big-Bangers, many were genuinely liberal for a social-democratic party: labour market flexibility , abolition of professional bars, pension reform and cuts in public sector . This

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1664-401: The entire province of Florence from 2009 to 4 June 2013, when she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies . Boschi entered in politics in 2008, during the primary election to become Mayor of Florence , where she was the spokesman of the committees in support of the candidacy of Michele Ventura, a close collaborator of the social democratic leader Massimo D'Alema . Ventura's main challenger

1716-712: The fall of the Enrico Letta government, Boschi was appointed Minister for Constitutional Reforms and Relations with the Parliament in the Renzi Cabinet ; on the following day she was sworn in by the President Giorgio Napolitano . Boschi was the Minister for Constitutional Reforms and Relations with Parliament with responsibility for the implementation of the Renzi government program; she

1768-399: The law to favor oil companies and Renzi accused the governor of having promoted the referendum only for personal purposes. Although 86% voted in favour of repealing the law, the turnout of 31% was below the majority threshold required to validate the result. Moreover, during the campaign for the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum , concerning the Renzi's Senate reform, Emiliano supported

1820-470: The leader of Forza Italia , despite having been expelled from the Senate due to his sentence for tax evasion . The alliance between Renzi and Berlusconi was named the Nazareno Pact , from the name of the street in Rome where the headquarters of the Democratic Party are located, where the two leaders met for the first time to discuss the reform. Despite concern from some within the Democratic Party,

1872-615: The mayors of metropolitan cities. In April 2007, he was also appointed Chairman of the Consortium for the Bari industrial development area. On 14 October 2007, Emiliano was elected regional secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) in Apulia, the new centre-left party, born from the union between the DS and The Daisy (DL). Emiliano hold the office until 2009, when he became regional president of

1924-482: The party's left, Gianni Cuperlo and Pippo Civati . He was elected PD leader with a landslide 67.6% of the vote. On 22 February 2014 Renzi was also sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy . On 19 February 2017, during the PD National Assembly, Renzi resigned as Secretary of the party and announcing his candidacy for the next leadership election . Few days before he launched the movement In Cammino ("On

1976-539: The party, reformer and modernizer. A frequent critic of his party's leadership, especially under Pier Luigi Bersani , Renzi made his name as "scrapper" (of old leaders and ideas), advocate of complete change in the party, reformer and modernizer. After organizing a convention of "scrappers" in Florence in November 2010, Renzi repeated the event in November 2011 under the Big Bang name. Leading Democrats who took part to

2028-579: The so-called "Pact for Apulia" in order to release 2.7 billion euros from the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC) to be assigned to Apulia region for various investments in the territory. Among the social policies promoted, there was the Regional Income of Dignity, a guaranteed minimum income for indigents. Despite the sign of the Pact for Apulia, Emiliano often criticized Prime Minister Renzi, who

2080-429: The subsequent run-off, on 2 December, Bersani trounced Renzi 60.9% to 39.1%, by winning in each and every single region but Tuscany , where Renzi won 54.9% of the vote. However, Bersani's demise as PD's secretary in April 2013 opened the way for another bid, this time for the party's leadership. On 8 December 2013, during the open primary of party's leadership election , Renzi fended off the challenges of two rivals from

2132-476: The third time that an electoral law was twinned with a confidence vote, after Mussolini's Acerbo Law and Alcide De Gasperi 's "Scam law". On 4 May the Chamber of Deputies finally approved the electoral changes with 334 votes for and 61 votes against, the latter including a faction of the PD. The reforms will take full effect in July 2016. After constitutional reforms had passed both the Chamber of Deputies and

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2184-565: The unavailability of the Regional Council to amend this law, Emiliano withdrew his candidacy and asked to the regional secretary of his party to directly appoint Vendola as the centre-left candidate. Nevertheless, the PD nominated Francesco Boccia to the primaries, where he was defeated by Vendola. Boccia's defeat led to the break-up of the electoral alliance in Apulia between the UdC and the PD. During his years as mayor, Emiliano promoted

2236-621: The way"), in support of his candidacy. After having won the vote by party members in March with almost 67% of votes, on 30 April, Renzi was re-elected Secretary of the party by a landslide with 69.2% of votes; while Andrea Orlando received 19.9% and Michele Emiliano 10.9% of votes. However, after the defeat in the 2018 general election , in which the PD gained only 19% of vote, Renzi was forced to resign as party secretary. As of mid 2019 Renziani were divided in three official factions and associations, Reformist Base , Always Forward and Back to

2288-407: Was also the leader of his own party, who was considered by Emiliano too centrist . He often implemented regional policies in contrast with those of the government. This contrast reached its peak at the 2016 Italian oil drilling referendum , which was promoted and supported by Emiliano and opposed by Renzi. During the referendum campaign, Emiliano repeatedly accused the government of having introduced

2340-505: Was asked by President Mattarella to form a new government. On the following day Gentiloni was officially sworn in as the new head of the government and Boschi was appointed new Secretary of the Council of Ministers . She was the first woman to have ever held the office. In September 2019, former Secretary of the Democratic Party Matteo Renzi founded a liberal Europeist party, Italia Viva . Boschi left

2392-510: Was followed by 25 deputies and 12 senators, who left the PD to join his movement. However, not all the Renziani decided to follow him. Members of Reformist Base (BR), notably including its leaders Lorenzo Guerini and Luca Lotti , decided not to join the new movement, remaining within the PD. Before the foundation of Italia Viva in September 2019, the Renziani area was divided into three official factions and associations. While most of

2444-420: Was mentioned many times by Federica Guidi. On the same day, parliamentary opposition have announced a new no-confidence motion against Maria Elena Boschi. The motion was rejected on the basis that Boschi didn't know Minister Guidi was doing a favour to her partner and there was no penal relevance. Michele Emiliano Michele Emiliano (born 23 July 1959) is an Italian politician and former judge . He

2496-589: Was one of the three coordinators of Matteo Renzi's campaign for the 2012 centre-left primary election . After the 2013 general election , Maria Elena Boschi was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the constituency of Tuscany . On 9 December 2013, after the victory of Renzi in the Democratic leadership election in December 2013, she joined the National Secretariat of the PD, as Head of Institutional Reforms. On 21 February 2014, following

2548-582: Was seen as the platform for a Renzi's run for prime-ministerial candidate of the PD. Renzi's group was dubbed by some journalists as the party's "new right". On 13 September 2012 Renzi officially announced in Verona , Veneto his bid to become the candidate for Prime Minister of the centre-left in 2013. On 25 November Renzi came second in the first round of the primary election with 35.5%, behind Pier Luigi Bersani (44.9%), but ahead of Nichi Vendola (15.6%), Laura Puppato (2.6%) and Bruno Tabacci (1.4%). In

2600-570: Was surprisingly elected mayor of Bari in the first round, beating the centre-right candidate Luigi Lobuono with 53.8% of the votes. His civic list Emiliano List for Bari got a remarkable result and the largest number of elected representatives in the municipal council. In January 2005, he was appointed delegate of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) for policies for the South and, since 29 March 2007, coordinator of

2652-524: Was the vice president at the time of receivership in February 2015, while her brother was responsible of cost management, until March 2015. On 31 March 2016 Federica Guidi , Minister of Economic Development resigned amid allegations that she had sought to shape last year's budget law to favour an oil project from which her partner, Gianluca Gemelli, who was inquired, stood to benefit financially. By telephone wiretap investigation file it shows that Boschi

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2704-465: Was the young President of Florence's Province Matteo Renzi , who went on to win the election. After the primary, she became a close adviser to Renzi. Boschi was a member of the city direction of the Democratic Party in Florence and organized numerous editions of Leopolda , the annual meeting of the Democratic faction near to Renzi. Moreover, together with Simona Bonafé and Sara Biagiotti, she

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