Giorgio Guazzaloca (6 February 1944 – 26 April 2017) was an Italian politician,
Mayor of Bologna from 1999 to 2004.
Biography
Guazzaloca left school when he was 14 and started working in his father's
butcher's shop, opening one of his own in 1965.
From 1985 to 1999, Guazzaloca has been the president of the Italian General Confederation of Enterprises office of
Bologna
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, and has been, from 1991 to 1998, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Artisanship.
Mayor of Bologna
On 19 December 1998, Guazzaloca announced his intention to run for the office of
Mayor of Bologna as a
centre-right
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independent
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candidate, receiving support from the
Pole for Freedoms
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coalition. Surprisingly, in June 1999, Guazzaloca won the runoff against the
Olive Tree
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candidate and became the first
right-wing Mayor of Bologna since the end of
World War II
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. He declared that he wanted a city guided not on the basis of political ideologies but exclusively on the basis of the interests of the people of
Bologna
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.
Guazzaloca tried to run for a second term in 2004, but he is defeated in the first round by the
Union
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candidate
Sergio Cofferati.
Later life and death
In 2005, Guazzaloca became a member of the
Italian Competition Authority
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.
Guazzaloca tried one more time to run for the office of
Mayor of Bologna in 2009 with his own
civic list, ranking third.
He died in the
Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
on 26 April 2017, at the age of 73, after having fought for years against a
multiple myeloma.
References
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1944 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Italian politicians
21st-century Italian politicians
Mayors of Bologna
Deaths from cancer in Emilia-Romagna
Deaths from multiple myeloma