Vincenzo Amendola

In 1998, he was appointed SG's responsible for foreign affairs as well as vice president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), of which he was elected secretary general in 2001.

[2] In 2006, Amendola was appointed in the national secretariat of the Democrats of the Left, and in November 2006, he was elected regional secretary of DS for Campania.

[9] On 29 January 2016, Amendola was appointed undersecretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Renzi's cabinet, a position that he held until 1 June 2018, serving under the premiership of Paolo Gentiloni too.

[12] In August 2019 tensions grew within the populist government, leading to the issuing of a motion of no-confidence on Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte by the League.

[13] After Conte's resignation, the national board of the PD officially opened to the possibility of forming a new cabinet in a coalition with the M5S,[14] based on pro-Europeanism, green economy, sustainable development, fight against economic inequality and a new immigration policy.