Stefano Bonaccini

Stefano Bonaccini (; born 1 January 1967) is an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party (PD), of which he is serving as president since 12 March 2023. Moreover, Bonaccini has been serving as the president of Emilia-Romagna since 24 November 2014. Bonaccini started his political career in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and followed that party's transition toward social democracy, becoming one of the main representatives of the PD's reformist or moderate wing. Early political career Stefano Bonaccini was born in Campogalliano, near Modena, on 1 January 1967, in a lower middle-class family. His father was a truck driver, while his mother worked in a factory. After attending the scientific lyceum, he started his political career during the 1980s, as a member of the peace movements. Contextually, he joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI), for which he became municipal assessor in the town of Campogaliano, where he lived. The PCI was transformed into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and, in 1993, Bonaccini became provincial secretary of the Left Youth (SG), the PDS youth-wing. Two years later, in 1995, he was elected provincial secretary of the PDS of Modena. In 1998, he joined the newly formed Democrats of the Left (DS). From 1999 to 2006, he served as Modena's municipal assessor for public works, cultural heritage and historical city centre. In 2007, he was appointed the provincial secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), the new centre-left party formed by the union between DS and the Christian centrist party, The Daisy (DL). Two years later he was elected regional secretary of the PD for Emilia-Romagna.