Brussels – There were almost no last-minute surprises, except for some weighty absences among the outgoing MEPs (in particular, Italia Viva’s head delegation, Nicola Danti, who withdrew from the race a few hours before the deadline to submit the list with a post on X). Among the candidates for the June European elections are almost all the leaders of the major parties – as is the all-Italian habit – including the Prime Minister and President of Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni, who will appear on the ballots as “also known as (aka) Giorgia” for further personalization of the vote.
In this election round, Premier Meloni will again be the leading candidate for Fratelli d’Italia in all five constituencies, as in the two previous European elections in which the far-right party participated since its founding in 2012. Other leading candidates include the reconfirmation of Sergio Antonio Berlato (Northeast), Carlo Fidanza (Northwest), and Nicola Procaccini (Center), as well as former Undersecretary for Culture (and former MEP between 1999 and 2001) Vittorio Sgarbi. After a troubled decision-making process, the Democratic Party will also see its leader, Secretary Elly Schlein, nominated as the leading candidate in two constituencies (Center and Islands), leaving the lead to Stefano Bonaccini (Northeast), Cecilia Strada (Northwest) and Lucia Annunziata (South) in the other three, with the reappointments of the outgoing head of delegation to the European Parliament, Brando Benifei (Center) and several MEPs in top positions in the lists (the number of preferences for election still applies).
Again aiming to present a strong name to voters on which to converge and then leave the seat to the first of the excluded in each constituency, Secretary Antonio Tajani stands out among the Forza Italia candidate list. He was a former MEP between 1994 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2022 (President of the EU Parliament between 2017 and 2019). Since the autumn of 2022, he has been vice-premier and foreign minister in the Meloni government. He will be a candidate in all constituencies except for the Islands, where the leading candidate is the former PD MEP, who switched to Forza Italia in 2023, Caterina Chinnici. The League confirmed the announced absence of Secretary Matteo Salvini, who opted instead to include the controversial general Roberto Vannacci in all constituencies – chiefly in the Center, ahead of Susanna Ceccardi, and in the South -while in the other three constituencies, the choice fell on outgoing MEPs: Paolo Borchia (Northeast), Silvia Sardone (Northwest), and Annalisa Tardino (Islands).
The 5-Star Movement will also not see the name of its leader, Giuseppe Conte, on its candidate list. However, two outgoing female MEPs – Sabrina Pignedoli (Northeast) and Maria Angela Danzì (Northwest) – will be joined as chief candidates by three new names: Carolina Morace (Center), Pasquale Tridico (South) and Giuseppe Antoci (Islands). For Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, the news is the confirmation of Ilaria Salis – an Italian citizen detained in Hungary under conditions that are deemed unacceptable for an EU member country – as the leading candidate in the Northwest constituency and second in the Islands constituency: if elected, she would benefit from parliamentary immunity. Also noteworthy is the presence of Domenico Lucano “aka Mimmo” in four constituencies (of which he is the chief candidate in the South), the former mayor of Rome Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino in two (of which he is the chief candidate in the Center), and the former mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando as the chief candidate in the Islands. The leaders of Green Europe and the Italian Left — Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, respectively –opted not to participate in the European elections.
What was the Third Pole in 2022 has been divided, with Italia Viva and +Europa forming the United States of Europe list and Action on its own (but the elected candidates will all end up in the Renew Europe group). After the announcement of the candidacy of the leader of +Europa, Emma Bonino, as the leading candidate in the Northwest constituency (and present as second in the Center), the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, also chose at the last minute to run in a more marginal position: he will be last on the list in four out of five constituencies (except in the Northeast). For Action, Secretary Carlo Calenda had already made a surprise announcement in the past few days of his candidacy in the lead position in all constituencies except the Northwest, where he will leave the post to former Equal Opportunity and Family Minister Elena Bonetti. Also appearing on the ballots will be the Peace Land Dignity list of Michele Santoro, who is leading in all constituencies except the Northeast one, and that of Liberty of the former mayor of Messina (since 2023 of Taormina) and leader of South Calls North, Cateno De Luca, a chief candidate in all three constituencies in which the coalition of 17 small political forces (Northeast, South, Islands) is presented.
Candidates constituency Northeastern Italy
Fratelli d’Italia
Giorgia Meloni aka Giorgia
Sergio Antonio Berlato
Alessia Ambrosi
Antonella Argenti
Silvia Bolla
Stefano Cavedagna aka Cavedania
Alessandro Ciriani
Elena Donazzan
Guglielmo Garagnani
Valeria Mantovan
Maddalena Morgante
Anna Olivetti
Lucas Pavanetto
Daniele Polato
Piergiacomo Sibiano aka PigaI
Partito democratico
Stefano Bonaccini
Annalisa Corrado
Ivan Pedretti
Elisabetta Gualmini
Alessandro Zan
Alessandra Moretti
Sara Vito
Sara Ferrari
Antonio Mumolo
Giuditta Pini
Marcello Saltarelli
Silvia Panini
Lorenzo Gennari
Paola Gazzolo
Andrea Zanoni
Forza Italia – Noi Moderati
Antonio Tajani
Sandra Savino
Flavio Tosi
Matteo Gazzini
Rosaria Tassinari
Cristina Andretta
Giampiero Avruscio
Antonio Cenini aka Cenno
Francesco Coppi
Arianna Corroppoli
Isabella Dotto
Bruno Molea
Deborah Onisto
Antonio Platis
Alessandra Servidor
Lega
Paolo Borchia
Elena Lizzi
Alessandra Basso
Rosanna Conte
Anna Cisint
Stefano Bargi
Roberta Conti
Arianna Lazzarini
Alessandro Manera
Morena Martini
Emiliano Occhi
Roberto Paccher
Roberto Pizzoli
Roberto Vannacci
Stefano Zannier
Movimento 5 stelle
Sabrina Pignedoli
Ugo Biggeri
Martina Pluda
Cinzia Morsiani
Paola Gori
Maria Angela Ferri
Giacomo Zattini
Paolo Bernini
Mohamad Kamel Malak
Stefania Braghetta
Rada Bolognesi
Fulvia Panza
Diego Nicolini
Andrea Bardin
Cesidio Antidormi
Alleanza Verdi Sinistra
Cristina Guarda
Domenico Lucano aka Mimmo
Brigitte Foppa
Nicola Dall’Olio
Jessica Veronica Cugini
Alessandro Franceschini
Francesca Caprini
Stefano Dall’Agata
Alessandra Filippi
Giulia Giorgi
Alessandra Mion
Emanuel Oian
Jessica Todaro aka Jessica Todaro Bellinati
Paolo Trande
Francesco Gonella
Stati Uniti d’Europa
Graham Robert Watson
Antonella Soldo
Giulia Pigoni
Davide Bendinelli
Gabriella Chiellino
Muharem Saljihu aka Marco
Maria Laura Moretti
Giorgio Pasetto
Francesco Bragagni
Marina Sorina
Luigi Giordani
Fabio Valcanover
Aurora Pezzuto
Nicola Cesari
Kateryna Shmorhav aka Katya
Azione
Carlo Calenda
Elena Bonetti
Federico Pizzarotti
Lara Bisin
Mario Raffaelli
Stefania Cargioli
Giovanni Poggiali
Silvia Fattore
Carlo Pasqualetto
Valeriana Maria Masperi
Riccardo Mortandello
Giuditta Righetti
Paul Köllensperger aka Paul
Federica Sabbati
Umberto Costantini
Candidates constituency Northwest Italy
Fratelli d’Italia
Giorgia Meloni aka Giorgia
Carlo Fidanza
Vincenzo Amich
Patrizia Baffi
Stefano Balleari
Federica Barbero
Marco Colombo
Giovanni Crosetto
Pietro Fiocchi
Eleonora Frigerio
Franco Giancarlo
Giovanna Giolitti
Paolo Inselvini
Lara Magoni
Mario Mantovani
Elena Nai
Federica Picchi
Vincenzo Sofo
Antonella Tosi
Mariateresa Vivaldini
Partito democratico
Cecilia Strada
Brando Benifei
Irene Tinagli
Alessandro Zan
Antonella Parigi
Giorgio Gori
Eleonora Evi
Pierfrancesco Maran
Patrizia Toia
Davide Mattiello
Elena Accossato
Emanuele Fiano
Monica Romano
Fulvio Centoz
Lucia Artusi
Fabio Pizzul
Donatella Alfonso
Luca Jahier
Paola Giudiceandrea
Fabio Bottero
Forza Italia – Noi moderati
Antonio Tajani
Letizia Maria Brichetto Arnaboldi aka Letizia Moratti
Paolo Damilano
Massimiliano Salini
Stefania Zambelli
Andrea Costa
Roberto Cota
Laura D’Incalci aka Dincalci
Firial Cherima Fteita
Gustavo Gili
Luigi Grillo
Clara Marta
Laura Menardi
Dina Nobili
Matteo Passoni
Silvia Piani
Claudia Porchietto
Marco Giovanni Reguzzoni
Beatrice Rizzi
Giuseppe Andrea Romeo
Lega
Silvia Sardone
Alessandro Panza
Francesco Bruzzone
Isabella Tovaglieri
Gianna Gancia
Angelo Ciocca
Oscar Lancini
Simona Bordonali
Alessia Borroni
Eraldo Botta
Marco Cozzi
Alessandro Fermi
Dino Ganelli
Elena Lucchini
Giovanni Malanchini
Cristina Patelli
Lorenza Rosso
Astrid Sento
Silvana Snider
Roberto Vannacci
Movimento 5 stelle
Maria Angela Danzì
Gaetano Pedullà
Antonella Pepe
Sean Sacco
Ester Luisa Lanfranchi
Giorgia Allario
Daniela Gobbo
Simone Verni
Paola Mazzola
Elena Calogero
Isabella Parini
Fabio Romano
Carolina Sala
Luca Colombo
Fabio Aleotti
Mariangela Sturaro
Denis Nunga Lodi
Claudio Volpe
Jean François Camille Boudard
Fabrizio Bertolami
Alleanza Verdi Sinistra
Ilaria Salis
Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino
Massimiliano Smeriglio
Benedetta Scuderi
Domenico Lucano aka Mimmo
Giovanni Mori
Arianna Bettin
Mario Salomone
Andrea John Dejanaz
Stefano Apuzzo
Andrea Cegna
Daniele Cicala
Simona Cosso
Angela Fedi
Erica Innisi
Simona Merisi
Chiara Minelli
Suad Omar Sheikh Esahaq aka Su
Jessica Todaro aka Jessica Todaro Bellinati
Giorgio Vacchiano
Stati uniti d’Europa
Emma Bonino
Gianfranco Librandi
Raffaella Paita aka Lella
Marco Taradash
Paolo Giovanni Micheli aka Paolo Micheli
Alessandro Cecchi Paone aka Cecchi aka Pavone
Patrizia De Grazia
Enrica Cattaneo
Nadia Gallo
Maria Mikaelyan
Vittorio Barazzotto
Matteo Di Maio
Federico Rossi
Simona Emanuela
Anna Carolina Viola
Luca Perego
Davide Falteri
Daria De Luca
Alessandra Franzi
Antonella Soldo
Matteo Renzi
Azione
Elena Bonetti
Giuseppe Zollino
Mariapia Abbracchio aka Mapy
Alessandro Tommasi aka Sandro
Caterina Avanza aka Caterina aka Cate
Cuno Jakob Tarfusser aka Cuno
Daniela Di Cosmo
Daniele Nahum
Simonetta Fiaccadori
Leonardo Lotto
Antonella Girardi
Federico Giacobbe
Cristina Lodi
Riccardo De Giorgi
Marina Lombardi
Salvatore Carrara
Laura Marchini
Giovanni Barosini
Federica Valcauda
Carlo Calenda
Candidates Constituency Central Italy
Fratelli d’Italia
Giorgia Meloni aka Giorgia
Nicola Procaccini
Carla Cappiello
Francesco Carducci Artenisio aka Carducci
Dorina Casadei
Carlo Ciccioli
Civita Di Russo aka Civita
Mario Pellegrini
Anita Privitera
Maria Veronica Rossi
Antonella Sberna
Marco Squarta
Francesco Torselli
Stefano Tozzi
Manuel Vescovi
Partito democratico
Elly Schlein
Nicola Zingaretti
Camilla Laureti
Marco Tarquinio
Beatrice Covassi
Dario Nardella
Daniela Rondinelli
Matteo Ricci
Elena Improta
Humberto Insolera
Alessia Morani
Marco Pacciotti
Teresa Bartoli
Antonio Mazzeo
Michele Franchi
Forza Italia- Noi moderati
Antonio Tajani
Francesca Peppucci
Salvatore De Meo
Alessandra Mussolini
Giorgio Silli
Marco Baldassarri
Rossella Chiusaroli aka Ros
Graziella Ciriaci
Valentina Corsetti
Maria Chiara Fazio aka Chiara Fazio
Jacopo Maria Ferri
Alessandro Ghinelli
Lorenzo Grassini
Tiziana Pepe Esposito aka Pepe
Renata Polverini
Lega
Roberto Vannacci
Susanna Ceccardi
Claudio Borghi
Anna Cinzia Bonfrisco
Mirco Carloni
Valeria Alessandrini
Mario Abbruzzese
Davide Bordoni
Franco Cardinale
Laura Cartaginese
Francesca Dionisi
Anna Menghi
Giovanna Miele
Antonio Tacconi
Matilde Tasselli
Movimento 5 stelle
Carolina Morace
Dario Tamburrano
Gianluca Ferrara
Giovanna Basile
Giusy Esposito
Valentina Fazio
Federica Lauretti
Giuliano Pacetti
Stefania Volpi
Sergio Romagnoli
Mirella Emiliozzi
Valentina Pococacio
Emanuele Ceccato
Luca Alloatti
Stefano Cecere
Alleanza Verdi sinistra
Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino
Marilena Grassadonia
Massimiliano Smeriglio
Luca Boccoli
Francesca Arca
Cecilia Bassi
Paola Bernasconi
Luciano Conte aka Lucio
Lucrezia Iurlaro
Antonio Natali
Christian Raimo
Agnese Santarelli
Sabrina Santelli
Pierluigi Vossi
Sergio Ulgiati
Stati uniti d’Europa
Giovanni Domenico Caiazza aka Giandomenico Caiazza
Emma Bonino
Marietta Tidei
Eric Mauritin Jozsef
Emanuela Pistoia
Rosa Maria Di Giorgi
Olga Surinova
Gerardo Stefanelli aka Stefano
Gianluca Carlo Misuraca
Silvia Bertolucci
Manuela Albertella
Giuseppina Bonaviri
Francesco Cappelletti
Tiziano Busca
Matteo Renzi
Azione
Carlo Calenda
Elena Bonetti
Alessio D’Amato
Cristina Bibolotti
Vincenzo Camporini
Nataliya Kudryk
Germano Craia
Barbara Masini
Massimo Seri
Debora Pacifici
Luciano Spigliantini
Rossella Pera
Umberto Trenta
Gabriella Ga Yeng Zanzanaini
Luca Pietro Ungaro
South constituency candidates
Fratelli d’Italia
Giorgia Meloni aka Giorgia
Nicola Benedetto
Ersilia Amatruda
Antonio Ambrosio
Marco Cerreto
Nicola D’Ambrosio aka Dambrosio
Luciana De Francesco
Mariangela Di Biase
Raffaella Docimo
Ines Fruncillo
Alberico Gambino
Chiara Maria Gemma
Giovanna Greco
Elena Marrazzi
Denis Domenico Nesci
Michele Picaro
Vittorio Sgarbi
Francesco Ventola
Partito democratico
Lucia Annunziata
Antonio Decaro
Pina Picierno
Sandro Ruotolo
Jasmine Cristallo
Francesco Forte
Manola Di Pasquale
Luigi Tassone
Shady Alizadeh
Franceso Todisco
Giuseppina Paterna
Nicola Campanile
Annamaria Becci
Massimo Schiavone
Georgia Tramacere
Raffaele Topo
Carmela Saulino
Gianmario Spada
Forza Italia – Noi moderati
Antonio Tajani
Isabella Adinolfi
Fulvio Martusciello aka Fulvio
Alessandra Mussolini
Lucia Vuolo aka Volo aka Vulo
Giuseppina Princi aka Giusi
Paolo Soccorso Dell’Erba
Antonella Ballone
Angelo Antonio D’Agostino
Laura De Mola
Raffaele De Rosa
Eliseo Iannini
Sonia Palmeri aka Palmieri
Barbara Ricci
Riccardo Rosa
Alessandro Sacchi
Francesca Salatiello aka Fra
Marcello Vernola
Lega
Roberto Vannacci
Simona Loizzo
Valentino Grant
Roberto Marti
Aldo Patriciello
Luigi Barone
Laura Cucchiarella
Giovanna Fiume
Santo Gagliardi
Marica Grande
Francesca Magliano
Filippo Mancuso
Anna Carmela Minuto
Carmela Rescigno
Angela Russo
Dante Santoro
Joseph Splendido
Matilde Tasselli
Movimento 5 stelle
Pasquale Tridico
Valentina Palmisano
Mario Furore
Maurizio Sibilio
Maura Sarno
Danilo Della Valle
Laura De Vita
Valentina Corneli
Gaia Silvestri
Fabio Stella
Lelio Mancino
Giuseppe Nunziato Belcastro
Francesca Anna Ruggiero
Felicia Gaudiano
Annunziata Coppola
Maria Anna Labarile
Riccardo Di Palma
Vincenzo Incampo
Alleanza Verdi Sinistra
Domenico Lucano aka Mimmo
Rosa D’Amato
Francesco Emilio Borrelli
Anna Grazia Maraschio
Souzan Fatayer aka Susan
Fabio Armano
Fedele Cannerozzi
Natale Cuccurese
Maria Pia Funaro
Giovanni Germano
Francesca Imperatore
Alessandra Mariano
Anna Orabona
Giulia Persico
Gerardo Pontecorvo
Valeria Spinelli
Rosario Ternullo
Sergio Ulgiati
Stati Uniti d’Europa
Vincenzo Maraio aka Enzo
Manuela Zambrano
Nicola Caputo
Alessandrina Lonardo Mastella aka Sandra Mastella
Teresa Bellanova
Caterina Miraglia
Alfonso Maria Gallo
Emanuela Pistoia
Massimiliano Stellato
Stefano Mascaro
Adriano Pasculli De Angelis aka Pasculli
Giovanna Catacchio
Giuseppe Varacalli aka Pino
Filomena Greco
Antonio Rubino
Elenora Stomeo aka Claudia
Annunziata Paese aka Nunzia
Matteo Renzi
Azione
Carlo Calenda
Elena Bonetti
Marcello Pittella
Ramona Calafiore
Luigi Casciello
Carmela Craca
Francesco De Nisi
Libera D’Amelio
Giuseppe Ferrandino
Paola Fanfarillo Manganiello
Dario Galantino
Danila Iacovelli
Valerio Poti
Lucia Iodice
Giuseppe Rossodivita
Stefania Postorivo
Giuseppe Sommese
Barbara Preziosi
Candidates constituency Islands
Fratelli d’Italia
Giorgia Meloni aka Giorgia
Salvatore Deidda aka Sasso
Elvira Amata
Massimiliano Giammusso aka Massi aka Musso
Giuseppe Milazzo
Ruggero Benedetto Italo Razza
Giuseppa Savarino aka Giusi
Alessia Scorpo
Partito democratico
Elly Schlein
Antonio Nicita
Lidia Tilotta
Pietro Bartolo
Angela Quaquero
Giuseppe Lupo
Maria Flavia Timbro
Giuseppe Belvisi
Forza Italia
Caterina Chinnici
Michele Cossa
Maddalena Calia
Massimo Dell’Utri
Marco Falcone
Bernardette Felice Grasso
Margherita La Rocca Ruvolo aka Rita
Edmondo Tamajo aka Tamaio aka Di Maio aka Edy aka Edi aka Eddy
Lega
Annalisa Tardino
Roberto Vannacci
Ester Bonafede
Antonino Germanà
Michelina Lunesu
Francesca Reitano
Raffaele Stancanelli
Girolamo Turano
Movimento 5 stelle
Giuseppe Antoci
Cinzia Pilo
Patrizio Cinque
Antonella Di Prima
Virginia Farruggia
Matteo Porcu
Antonino Randazzo
Matilde Montaudo
Alleanza Verdi Sinistra
Leoluca Orlando
Ilaria Salis
Domenico Lucano aka Mimmo
Cinzia Dato
Emanuele Barbara
Giuliana Fiertler aka Firtler, aka Fitler
Francesco Muscau
Stefania Pagliazzo
Stati uniti d’Europa
Rita Bernardini
Francesco Concetto Calanna
Fabrizio Micari
Valentina Falletta
Pietrina Putzolu
Luca Ballatore
Carola Politi
Matteo Renzi
Azione
Carlo Calenda
Sonia Alfano
Gianfranco Damiani
Martina Benoni
Gianni Palazzolo aka Giangiacomo
Rosanna Cocomero
Nicola Trudu
Elena Bonetti
