Chiara Frontini (born 24 March 1989) is an Italian politician,
Mayor of Viterbo since 2022 and the first woman to hold the office.
Biography
She made her debut in politics in
Viterbo
Viterbo (; Viterbese: ; lat-med, Viterbium) is a city and ''comune'' in the Lazio region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.
It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in its early history ...
in 2012, when she was appointed councilor for innovation, relations with European institutions, employment policies, energy policies and relations with the University, in the
centre-right
Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...
junta chaired by the
Mayor of Viterbo Giulio Marini.
In 2013 Frontini ran for the office of Mayor of Viterbo representing the "Viterbo Venti Venti" civic list. She got 4.69% of the votes, managing to win a seat on the city council. In the subsequent
elections of 2018 she ran again for office and enters the ballot against
Giovanni Arena, candidate of
Forza Italia, who nevertheless manages to get the better of winning with 51.09% of the votes and a difference of only 530 votes.
Mayor of Viterbo
On the occasion of the
local elections of 2022, Frontini announced her third candidacy for mayor, once again for a coalition of civic lists including "Viterbo Venti Venti". On 12 June 2022, in the first round, she obtained 32.82% of the votes and entered the second round on 26 June against the
centre-left
Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...
candidate Alessandra Troncarelli. Frontini is elected mayor with 64.92% of the votes, becoming the first woman Mayor of Viterbo.
References
1989 births
Living people
Mayors of places in Lazio
Women mayors of places in Italy
People from Viterbo
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