Matteo Renzi (born Florence, 11 January 1975) is an Italian politician. He was elected as Mayor of Florence on June 22, 2009 with 59.96% of the vote. In February 2011 he publicly called on all the Italian politicians of the Berlusconi era to retire, citing the fact that Berlusconi is only six years younger than Renzi's grandmother.

Renzi was born in Florence in 1975. He studied in Florence, and then he graduated in law in Florence University. He joined the Italian People's Party in 1996, and became Provincial Secretary in 1999. He was President of the Province of Florence from 2004 to 2009, winning 58.8% of the ballots in the elections of 12 June 2004, representing a centre-left coalition.

On 9 June 2009 in the elections for the Mayor of Florence, Renzi (as a member of the Democratic Party) obtained 47.57% of the ballots, against 32% for Giovanni Galli, the candidate of the centre-right coalition headed by The People of Freedom party.

In 2010, while his popularity was increasing, he organised a meeting in Florence in Leopolda Station to discuss about Italian politic, after stating that a complete change was necessary also in his party. That is the reason why media gave him the name "scrapper".

Enrico Letta (born on 20 August 1966) is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election for the Olive Tree (Italian: L'Ulivo) coalition. He is currently the Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party.

Letta was born in Pisa, where he studied at University of Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.

He was Member of the European Parliament for the North-East region with the Margherita Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He was also a member of the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya).

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

Victoria Cabello (b. London, 12 March 1975) is an Italian television presenter.

One of MTV Italia's original veejays (since 1997), she used to host Select MTV from London. She also appeared on Italia 1's "Le Iene" (the Italian version of Caiga quien caiga) where she performs comic interviews with famous Italian and international celebrities.

In 2006, she hosted the Sanremo Music Festival with Giorgio Panariello and Ilary Blasi.

From 2005 to 2008 Victoria hosted a talk show called Very Victoria on MTV Italy.

In 2009 she moved from MTV Italy to La7, where she hosted the talk show Victor Victoria - Niente è come sembra.

In 2011 she was chosen to host ”Quelli che..." marking a big jump from La7 to Rai 2, hosting one of Italy's most important football related shows.

She was engaged to the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan.

Marco Travaglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko traˈvaʎʎo]; born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and commentator.

Travaglio was born in Turin and earned a degree in history from the University of Turin. In 1992 he began to pursue journalism as a career. He started out writing for Catholic publications such as Il nostro tempo ("Our time"), then worked under the renowned journalist Indro Montanelli for newspapers such as Il Giornale and La Voce and gained the attention of Montanelli himself who once used to say about him: "No, Travaglio does not kill anyone. With a knife. He uses a more refined and not legally punishable weapon: the archives"

Since 14 September 2006, Marco Travaglio has been a regular guest in the TV program AnnoZero, hosted by Michele Santoro (also mentioned by Berlusconi in the Bulgarian Edict).

Recently, Travaglio has contributed as a columnist to prominent national newspapers and magazines, such as La Repubblica, L'Unità (with his old columns "Bananas", "Uliwood Party" and "Zorro") and Micromega. He still contributes to L'espresso with the column "Signorno'". In September 2009 he contributed to the formation of the independent newspaper, called Il Fatto Quotidiano ("The Daily Fact").

Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber (born 19 April 1957) is an Italian journalist and television personality from South Tyrol.

Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel La7, Gruber also served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to September 2008 under the Olive Tree ticket.

Gruber was born in Bolzano and is an Italian and German native speaker. She graduated in English Language and Literature at the University of Venice. In 1987 she became the first female anchor to present the TG1, Italy's most popular television news program on Rai Uno. In 1988, she became international political correspondent for RAI, covering events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the situation in the United States after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and the Iraqi war.

In April 2004 Gruber resigned from her position at RAI in protest against the influence on state controlled media by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. She attacked his "unresolved conflict of interest", and considered that RAI had abandoned its tradition of pluralism in order to support the government's views. Gruber has also worked for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, and for "Io Donna", the women's magazine of Italy's leading newspaper Corriere della Sera, and for magazines TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.