Adriana Poli Bortone (born on 25 August 1943 in Lecce) is an Italian politician and was an Alleanza Nazionale Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2008. She represented Southern Italy. She was mayor of Lecce until 2007.

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

Marco Pannella (born Giacinto Pannella on May 2, 1930) is an Italian politician.

He is the historic leader of the Radical Party (the first expression of the Radicals in post-World War II Italy was the Italian Radical Party, founded in 1955). Between 1979 and 2009, he was a Member of the European Parliament, where he sat as a full member in the Committee on Legal Affairs, in the Committee on Budgetary Control and in the Delegation for relations with Israel.

Pannella was born at Teramo (Abruzzi) from an Italian father and a Swiss mother on May 2, 1930. He is member of the European Parliament and President of the Nonviolent Radical Party.

At the age of 20, Marco Pannella was a national representative at the university level for the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), member of the student association Unione goliardica Italiana (UGI) and at 23 he was President of the Unione nazionale degli studenti, UNURI (National Union of Students).

At 24 he promoted the foundation of the Partito Radicale (hereinafter the “Radical Party”). From 1960 to 1963, he was in Paris as a correspondent of the Italian newspaper Il Giorno. In his political career, Mr. Pannella co-founded a series of organizations such as the Italian league for divorce, the League for objection of conscience, the League for the abrogation of the Agreement between the Catholic Church and the Italian State (Concordato), the Centre of legal initiative “Pietro Calamandrei”, as well as the Italian Association for Demographic Education (AIED). He has been at the forefront of the promotion important reforms regarding narcotics, facing incarceration on various occasions for his civil disobediences. He played a prominent role in the pro-choice movement in Italy that led to the legalization of abortion in the early 1980s. He also promoted actions to grant electoral rights for Italians aged 18.

Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948 in Bra) is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Senate. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights. She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.

A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected as one of four Vice Presidents of the Senate on 6 May 2008.

Bonino was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976 and re-elected in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994 and 2006. In 1975, she founded the Information Centre on Sterilisation and Abortion and promoted the referendum which led to the legalisation of abortion in Italy. In 1986, she was among the promoters of a referendum against nuclear energy that led to the rejection of a civil nuclear energy programme in Italy.

On 17 May 2006, Emma Bonino was appointed as Minister for International Trade in the cabinet of Romano Prodi. She resigned from that office on 7 May 2008, as she had been elected Vice President of the Senate the previous day. In 2008, at the elections of April 13–14, she was elected to a seat in the Senate, the second parliamentary chamber, on the list of the Democratic Party for the Piedmont constituency.