Giuseppe Marchionna (born 14 July 1953) is an Italian politician. A

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the Right-wing politics, right of the Left–right politics, political spectrum, but are closer to the Centrism, centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure a ...

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, he serves as

Mayor of Brindisi The Mayor of Brindisi is an elected politician who, along with the Brindisi's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Brindisi in Apulia, Italy. The current Mayor is Giuseppe Marchionna, a centre-right independent, who took ...

since 2023, an office he previously held from 1990 to 1992.

Biography

A member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

Brindisi Brindisi ( , ) ; la, Brundisium; grc, Βρεντέσιον, translit=Brentésion; cms, Brunda), group=pron is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Histo ...

at a very young age, passionate about studies and research of an economic nature, over the years Marchionna has been involved in the elaboration of documents and publications focused on the development of the Brindisi area. He was elected city councilor of

for the first time in 1985, and then held the position of councilor for Productive Activities in 1989. In 1990 he was elected

and during his term he found himself facing the emergency of the exodus of the

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who arrived in a single day in 25,000 in the city of Brindisi, putting a strain on its resistance and management capacity. He ends his administrative mandate in October 1992. In 2008, after abandoning active politics, he resumed his youth studies, graduating with honors in Philosophy at the

University of Macerata The University of Macerata ( it, Università degli Studi di Macerata) is a public university located in Macerata, Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe that are still functioning.https://thefunkonme.com/top-10-oldest-universities- ...

. On the occasion of the administrative elections of May 2023, Marchionna ran again for

, at the head of a

centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-destra) is an alliance of political parties in Italy, active—under several forms and names—since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party. Despite ...

. He won the elections in the run-off, 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 c ...

candidate Roberto Fusco, becoming mayor of the city of Brindisi for the second time.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marchionna, Giuseppe 1953 births Living people Mayors of Brindisi University of Macerata alumni Italian Socialist Party politicians Forza Italia politicians New Italian Socialist Party politicians