Antonio Decaro | |
---|---|
Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
Constituency | Southern Italy |
Mayor of Bari | |
In office 23 June 2014 –9 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Michele Emiliano |
Succeeded by | Vito Leccese |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 14 March 2013 –9 July 2014 | |
Constituency | Apulia |
Personal details | |
Born | Bari,Italy | 17 July 1970
Political party | Democratic Party |
Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Bari |
Occupation | Engineer,politician |
Antonio Decaro (born 17 July 1970) is an Italian politician and former Mayor of Bari.
Decaro graduated in engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari. After a brief work experience as deputy head of the department of the Apulian Aqueduct,he was employed by ANAS in 2000. [1]
In 2004 he was hired by mayor of Bari Michele Emiliano as Councilor for mobility and traffic,distinguishing himself for his environmentalism:Decaro has contributed to the implementation of initiatives and infrastructures that have marked the change in the mobility and traffic policies in Bari. His goal was to empty the city center of cars and redefine the spaces and lifestyle of citizens and commuters. [1]
In 2010 he was elected regional councilor in Apulia as a member of the Democratic Party and was group leader of the party in the regional assembly from 2010 to 2013,when he was elected Deputy after the 2013 elections.
In January 2014,he announced on his Facebook page his intention to run for mayor of Bari. In June,he is elected mayor,with the support of his predecessor Michele Emiliano,the Democratic Party,Left Ecology Freedom,Italy of Values and the Democratic Centre. [2]
On 12 October 2016,Decaro was elected President of the National Association of Italian Comunes,the association of all the mayors of the country. [3]
On 26 May 2019,Decaro ran for re-election as mayor of Bari. He won handily with nearly two-thirds of the vote (66.27%) in the first round,thus avoiding a runoff. [4]
In 2020,in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged Northern Italy,even though he is mayor of a Southern city,Decaro became a social media star and instant sensation overnight due to his strong-mannered rebukes of citizens who would not respect the stay-at-home rule. Decaro even had Facebook and Instagram fan pages read by women who immediately claimed to be attracted to him because of his online rants appealing to his constituents to comply with the rule became popular.
In 2024,with his second term as mayor coming to an end,Decaro ran for the European Parliament as number two candidate on the Democratic Party list in the Southern Italy constituency. [5] [6] He received 499 661 preference votes in the constituency,only second after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (555 720) and was thus elected. [7] In his hometown of Bari,he received 59 339 preference votes - 40% of all votes cast in the city,and besting Meloni by almost 46 000 votes. [8]
On 23 July of the same year,he was elected Chairman of European Parliament Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety. [9]
The Southern Action League is a regionalist far-right Italian political party active in Apulia,especially in Taranto.
Massimo Bitonci is an Italian Venetist politician. Born in Padua,he is a member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord,of which he served as national president since 2016. In 1993,he joined Lega Nord and was deputy mayor of Cittadella from 1994 to 2002. During his second term,he followed mayor Lucio Facco into Liga Veneta Repubblica (LVR). With the support of LVR,he ran for mayor in 2002 and was elected with 50.9% of the vote in a run-off,defeating Liga Veneta in one of its traditional strongholds.
Democratic Centre is a centrist,Christian leftist and social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members,including its leader Bruno Tabacci,are former Christian Democrats. Since its beginnings,the CD has been also part of the centre-left coalition,centred around the Democratic Party (PD).
Dario Nardella is an Italian politician who was the Mayor of Florence from 26 May 2014 to 26 June 2024 and the first Metropolitan Mayor of Florence. He is the first mayor of Florence who has been elected twice in the first term. He was also a deputy for the Democratic Party in the 17th legislature until his election as mayor.
Stefano Bonaccini is an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party (PD),of which he is serving as president since 12 March 2023. In 2024,he was elected to the European Parliament to represent North-East Italy.
Municipal elections were held in Bologna on 6–7 and 21–22 June 2009. The centre-left candidate Flavio Delbono was elected mayor at the second round with 60.77% of votes.
Snap municipal elections were held in Rome on 5 and 19 June 2016,to elect the Mayor of Rome and 48 members of the City Council,as well as the fifteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 15 municipi in which the municipality is divided.
Angelo Ciocca is an Italian politician and former member of the European Parliament.
Giorgio Gori is an Italian entrepreneur,journalist,and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former mayor of Bergamo.
Massimo Depaoli is an Italian politician.
Matteo Ricci is an Italian politician and former mayor of Pesaro. He began his career in the Democrats of the Left (DS). From 2009 to 2014,he was also the president of the province of Pesaro and Urbino with the Democratic Party (PD). After being elected mayor in 2014,he was re-elected in 2019.
David Maria Sassoli was an Italian politician and journalist who served as the president of the European Parliament from 3 July 2019 until his death on 11 January 2022. Sassoli was first elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009.
Alessandro Ciriani is an Italian politician.
Eike Dieter Schmidt is a German-Italian art historian and politician. He is the current director of the Museo di Capodimonte,after having served in the same capacity for the Uffizi in Florence from 2015 to 2024.
The 2021 Turin municipal election took place in Turin,Italy,on 3 and 4 October 2021,to elect the mayor and the 38 members of the Turin city council. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round,a runoff was held on 17 and 18 October 2021. The second round was won by the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo,member of the Democratic Party,who was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021. The incumbent mayor of Turin,Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement,did not run for re-election.
The 2022 Italian local elections were held in various Italian local communities on 12 June 2022,with a run-off round on 26 June. Local elections in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol were held on 15 May,with a second ballot on 29 May,while local elections in Aosta Valley on 29 May,with a second ballot on 12 June. Elections took place in 980 out of 7,904 municipalities,26 of which were provincial capitals. Mayors and city councils were elected for the ordinary five-year terms,lasting till 2027.
Francesca Alderisi is an Italian politician and television presenter. Since 2018,she has been a Senator from Forza Italia representing North and Central America.
The 2024 Piedmontese regional election was held on 8–9 June 2024. The election will elect all members of the Regional Council of Piedmont,as well as the president of Piedmont. It is the fourth election as part of the 2024 Italian regional elections and was held on the same day as the 2024 European Parliament election in Italy.