The 2015 Five Star Movement presidential primary election was held online in January 2015 to determine the Five Star Movement candidate in the 2015 Italian presidential election.[1][2][3]
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Ferdinando Imposimato, former Member of the Parliament and honorary president of Supreme Court of Cassation, won the primary with a plurality of the vote, but ultimately lost the presidential election to Sergio Mattarella, coming in second on the fourth ballot.
Candidates
editPortrait | Name | Office(s) held | Profession | |
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Ferdinando Imposimato (1936–2018) |
Member of the Senate (1987 – 1992; 1994 –1996) Other positions
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Magistrate | ||
Romano Prodi (born 1939) |
President of the European Commission (1999–2004) Other offices
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University professor | ||
Nino Di Matteo (born 1961) |
Member of the High Council of the Judiciary (2019 – present) | Magistrate | ||
Pierluigi Bersani (born 1951) |
Secretary of the Democratic Party (Italy) (2009–2013) Other offices
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Career politician | ||
Gustavo Zagrebelsky (born 1943) |
President of the Constitutional Court (2004) Other positions
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Jurist | ||
Raffaele Cantone (born 1963) |
President of the National Anticorruption Authority (2014–2019) |
Magistrate | ||
Elio Lannutti (born 1948) |
Member of the Senate (2008–2013; 2018–2022) |
Journalist | ||
Salvatore Settis (born 1941) |
N/A | Rector | ||
Paolo Maddalena (born 1936) |
Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2010–2011) Other offices
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2002–2011) |
Magistrate |
Results
editCandidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Ferdinando Imposimato | Independent | 16,635 | 34.45% | |
Romano Prodi | Democratic Party | 10,288 | 21.31% | |
Nino Di Matteo | Independent | 6,693 | 13.86% | |
Pierluigi Bersani | Democratic Party | 5,787 | 11.99% | |
Gustavo Zagrebelsky | Independent | 5,547 | 11.49% | |
Raffaele Cantone | Independent | 3,341 | 6.92% | |
Elio Lannutti | Five Star Movement | 1,528 | 3.16% | |
Salvatore Settis | Independent | 1,517 | 3.14% | |
Paolo Maddalena | Independent | 392 | 0.81% | |
Total | 48,282 | 100.00 |