# 2025 More Europe leadership election

The 2025 More Europe leadership election was a congressional primary election that took place on 7, 8, and 9 February 2025 in Rome to elect the new party leadership. Riccardo Magi has been re-elected as secretary of More Europe, while Matteo Hallissey, former secretary and current president of Italian Radicals, has been elected as president. Hallissey won against the former secretary of More Europe, Benedetto Della Vedova, despite the latter having the endorsement of Riccardo Magi and Emma Bonino.

## Procedure
### Timetable

Timetable of events for the 2025 More Europe leadership election :
| Date(s) | Event |
| 27 October 2024 | Assembly approves the Congress rules and deliberates on key dates for the third Congress. Primaries begin. |
| 31 December 2024 | Enrollment for members closes. |
| 7 January 2025 | Opening of the pre-congressional phase. |
| 9 January | Submission of candidacies for delegates closes. |
| 10 January | Submission of candidacies for statutory amendments opens. |
| 11–19 January | Party members can endorse candidacies for delegates. |
| 26–27–28 January | Election of delegates takes place. |
| 28 January | Publication of results for the elected delegates. |
| 29 January | Submission of candidacies for statutory amendments closes. |
| 1–6 February | Signing on statutory amendments takes place. |
| 28 January–9 February | Filing of candidacies for the Secretary, President, Treasurer, and Assembly lists. |
| 7–9 February | Start of the Congress, held in Rome. |
| 9 February | Submission of candidacies for Assembly lists closes. |
| 9 February | Election of the Secretary, President, Treasurer, and Assembly members takes place. |

## Candidates
### Secretary

| Portrait | Name | Name | Most recent position | Announced | Refs |
| | | Riccardo Magi (age 48) | Member of the Chamber of Deputies for More Europe (2018–present) Other positions President of More Europe (2021–2023) Secretary of Italian Radicals (2015–2018) President of Italian Radicals (2014–2015) Municipal Councillor of Rome (2013–2016) | 9 February 2025 | |

### Assembly Lists

| List | List | Campaign website | Top candidate | Supported Secretary |
| | Heretic! (Eretika!) | — | Alfonso Maria Gallo | — |
| | Europeanism or Fascism (Europeismo o Fascismo) | Facebook page | Agnese Balducci | Riccardo Magi |
| | IMAGIne The European Revolution (ImMAGIna La Rivoluzione Europea | Facebook page | Riccardo Magi | Riccardo Magi |
| | Operation Millennium (Operazione Millennium) | — | Angelo Cenicola | — |
| | Let's Root More Europe in the Territories (Radichiamo +Europa sui Territori) | — | Riccardo Volpe | Riccardo Magi |
| | United States of Europe (Stati Uniti d'Europa) | Facebook page | Benedetto Della Vedova | — |
| Source: Assembly lists |||||

## Results
### Secretary

| Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Riccardo Magi | 205 | 74.01 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 72 | 25.99 |
| Total | Total | 277 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 277 | 94.86 |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 20 | 6.85 |
| Votes cast / Turnout | Votes cast / Turnout | 292 | 97.33 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 8 | 2.67 |
| Registered delegates | Registered delegates | 300 | 100.00 |
| Source: Results ||||
Vote by delegates
Magi
74.0%
Blank ballots
26.0% :

### President

| Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Matteo Hallissey | 198 | 69.47 |
| | Benedetto Della Vedova | 87 | 30.52 |
| Total | Total | 285 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 285 | 96.61 |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 4 | 1.35 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | 7 | 2.36 |
| Votes cast / Turnout | Votes cast / Turnout | 296 | 98.7 |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 4 | 1.33 |
| Registered delegates | Registered delegates | 300 | 100.00 |
| Source: Results ||||
Vote by delegates
Hallissey
69.5%
Della Vedova
30.5% :

### Delegates

| Lists | Lists | Votes | % | Weighted votes | % | Delegates |
| | IMAGIne The European Revolution | — | — | 2,425.7 | 40.83 | 123 / 300 |
| | Operation Millennium | — | — | 1,508.75 | 25.40 | 76 / 300 |
| | United States of Europe | — | — | 835.5 | 14.06 | 42 / 300 |
| | Heretik! | — | — | 657.7 | 11.07 | 33 / 300 |
| | Europeanism or Fascism | — | — | 512.9 | 8.63 | 26 / 300 |
| Total | Total | — | — | 5,940.55 | 100.00 | 300 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | — | — | 5,940.55 | 99.14 | — |
| Invalid and blank votes | Invalid and blank votes | — | — | 51.7 | 0.86 | — |
| Votes cast / Turnout | Votes cast / Turnout | 5,204 | 88.58 | 5,992.25 | 88.13 | — |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 671 | 11.42 | 807.40 | 11.87 | — |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 5,875 | 100.00 | 6,799.65 | 100.00 | — |
| Source: Delegates elected |||||||

### Assembly

| Lists | Lists | Votes | % | Seats |
| | Operation Millennium | 70 | 23.97 | 21 / 100 |
| | Let's Root More Europe in the Territories | 57 | 19.52 | 18 / 100 |
| | IMAGIne The European Revolution | 56 | 19.18 | 17 / 100 |
| | United States of Europe | 45 | 15.41 | 14 / 100 |
| | Heretik! | 36 | 12.33 | 11 / 100 |
| | Europeanism or Fascism | 28 | 9.59 | 9 / 100 |
| Blank votes | Blank votes | 3 | 1.03 | — |
| Votes cast / Turnout | Votes cast / Turnout | 295 | 98.33 | — |
| Abstenstions | Abstenstions | 5 | 1.67 | — |
| | Magi's list | Magi's list | Magi's list | 10 / 100 |
| Total | Total | 300 | 100.0 | 100 |
| Source: Results |||||
* ↑ Ten seats are assigned to the winner Secretary's list, that does not directly run as an Assembly list.

## Aftermath

Just four days before the party enrollment closed for voting on December 31, 1,900 people, mainly from Giugliano in Campania and Afragola, joined the party. After party members elected the delegates, 61 delegates from the "ImMAGIna" list led by Riccardo Magi split off and created their own list called "Let's Root More Europe in the Territories," led by Rosario Mariniello. This led to a heated confrontation during the Congress, as the Board of Trustees of More Europe was tasked with investigating the sudden mass memberships and verifying whether each of the 1,900 individuals had paid with their own credit card. However, the Board failed to determine the regularity of these memberships since privacy rules prevented verification of the payments.