Sara Funaro | |
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![]() Funaro in 2023. | |
Mayor of Florence | |
Assumed office 26 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Dario Nardella |
Metropolitan Mayor of Florence | |
Assumed office 26 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Dario Nardella |
Personal details | |
Born | Florence,Italy | 12 May 1976
Political party | Democratic Party |
Alma mater | University of Florence |
Profession | Psychotherapist |
Sara Funaro (born 12 May 1976) is an Italian politician,Mayor of Florence since 26 June 2024 and is both the first woman and first Jewish person to hold this office. [1]
Born in 1976,Funaro is the granddaughter of Piero Bargellini,mayor of Florence during the 1966 flood of the Arno. [2]
She obtained a degree in clinical psychology at the University of Florence and a specialization in phenomenological psychotherapy at the University of Urbino and a master's degree in ethnopsychiatry at the Center Devereux in Paris.
A member of the Democratic Party,Funaro has been councilor for health,reception and equal opportunities from 2014 to 2024 under the mayorship of Dario Nardella. [3]
In the 2024 local elections,Funaro became the centre-left candidate for the office of Mayor of Florence,supported by the Democratic Party,the Greens and Left Alliance,More Europe and Action. She was elected in the run-off against the former director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt,supported by the centre-right coalition,thus becoming the first woman to lead the city of Florence. [4]