Federico Pizzarotti

Federico Pizzarotti (born 7 October 1973) is an Italian politician who served as mayor of Parma from 2012 to 2022. Elected mayor as a member of the Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle, M5S), which he had first joined in 2009, he successfully ran for re-election in 2017 through a civic list, after dissent within the M5S. He was the first M5S mayor in a provincial capital of Italy, after being elected on 21 May 2012 with 60.22% of votes in a runoff election. He was re-elected with 57.87% of the votes. In 2018, Pizzarotti founded his own party, Italy in Common (Italia in Comune, IiC). In 2022, he briefly joined the National Civic List (Lista Civica Nazionale, LCN) within Italy Is There (L'Italia c'è, LIC), before he left for More Europe (Più Europa, +Eu), where he was elected president in February 2023. In April 2024, he left +Eu due to dissent ahead of the 2024 European Parliament election, and joined the Action (Azione, Az) party led by Carlo Calenda.