2019 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election

2019 Democratic Party leadership election
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Nominee Nicola Zingaretti Maurizio Martina Roberto Giachetti
Party Democratic Party Democratic Party Democratic Party
Delegate count 653 228 119
Popular vote 1,035,955 345,318 188,355
Percentage 66.0% 22.0% 12.0%
Primary election results map. Red denotes provinces with a Zingaretti plurality and Green denotes those with a Martina plurality.
Secretary before election

Maurizio Martina

 Elected Secretary

Nicola Zingaretti

The 2019 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 3 March 2019.[1][2] The election was triggered by the resignation of Matteo Renzi on 12 March 2018, following the party's defeat at the 2018 general election. Vice Secretary Maurizio Martina was appointed Secretary in July 2018 by the National Assembly, but he resigned after few months to officially start the party's congress.[3][4]

Six candidates were successfully nominated to stand in the Club's Conventions, held in January: Nicola Zingaretti, Maurizio Martina, Roberto Giachetti, Francesco Boccia, Dario Corallo and Maria Saladino.[5] The first three candidates advanced to the open primary election scheduled in March,[6] where Zingaretti won by a landslide getting more than 66% of votes.[7]

  1. ^ "Martina segretario a tempo primarie all'inizio del 2019". rep.repubblica.it. 6 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Le primarie del Pd si svolgeranno il 3 marzo". LaStampa.it. 13 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Martina si dimette, aperta la partita del congresso Pd - Politica". ANSA.it. 30 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Pd, Martina accelera: "Primarie a gennaio". La replica di Orfini: "Pensate di risolvere con il Congresso? Beati"". Repubblica.it. 16 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Congresso Pd, chi sono i candidati in corsa per la segreteria | Sky TG24". tg24.sky.it.
  6. ^ "Congresso Pd, dati parziali: Zingaretti vicino al 50%, poi Martina e Giachetti". Democratica. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Primarie Pd, vince Zingaretti. Il comitato del neosegretario: "Siamo oltre il 67%. affluenza a 1milione e 800mila, meglio del 2017"". La Repubblica. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.