2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election

The 2009 Democratic Party leadership election was held in July–November 2009, following the resignation of Walter Veltroni in February 2009, after 16 months as secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy.

2009 Democratic Party leadership election
25 October 2009
 
Nominee Pier Luigi Bersani Dario Franceschini Ignazio Marino
Delegate count 530 339 131
Popular vote 1,623,239 1,045,123 380,904
Percentage 53.2% 34.3% 12.5%
Secretary before election

Dario Franceschini

 Elected Secretary

Pier Luigi Bersani

Pier Luigi Bersani, a former minister in several centre-left governments hailing from the Italian Communist Party (then Democratic Party of the Left and Democrats of the Left), was elected secretary in an open primary on 25 October. Three million Democratic supporters turned out to vote and it was a real fight between three candidates, with Bersani winning with only 53% of the votes cast.

Bersani was declared new secretary of the party during the first meeting of the party's new national assembly elected on 7 November 2009. On that occasion Rosy Bindi was elected president of the party (with Marina Sereni and Ivan Scalfarotto vice-presidents), while Enrico Letta and Antonio Misiani were nominated deputy-secretary and treasurer, respectively.

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