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

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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

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candidate, receiving support from the

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coalition. Surprisingly, in June 1999, Guazzaloca won the runoff against the

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candidate and became the first right-wing Mayor of Bologna since the end of

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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

. Guazzaloca tried to run for a second term in 2004, but he is defeated in the first round by the

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candidate Sergio Cofferati.

Later life and death

In 2005, Guazzaloca became a member of the

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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

on 26 April 2017, at the age of 73, after having fought for years against a multiple myeloma.

References

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