The Mayor of Gorizia is an elected politician who, along with the Gorizia's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of

Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gorit ...

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (man), it, Friulana (woman), it, Giuliano (man), it, Giuliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_t ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. The current Mayor is

Rodolfo Ziberna Rodolfo Ziberna (born 11 November 1961 in Gorizia) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the centre-right party Forza Italia. He was elected Mayor of Gorizia on 25 June 2017 and took office the following day. See also *2017 Italian local ...

, a member of the

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 ...

party

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

, who took office on 26 June 2017.

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Gorizia is member of the City Council. The Mayor is elected by the population of Gorizia, who also elects the members of the City Council, controlling the Mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a

motion of no confidence A motion of no confidence, also variously called a vote of no confidence, no-confidence motion, motion of confidence, or vote of confidence, is a statement or vote about whether a person in a position of responsibility like in government or mana ...

. The Mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government. Since 1994 the Mayor is elected directly by

's electorate: in all mayoral elections in

in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Kingdom of Italy (1918–1946)

The office of Mayor of Gorizia was established in 1918 and it was elected by the City's Council. In 1926, the Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils, replacing them with an

authoritarian Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political ''status quo'', and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic votin ...

Podestà Podestà (, English: Potestate, Podesta) was the name given to the holder of the highest civil office in the government of the cities of Central and Northern Italy during the Late Middle Ages. Sometimes, it meant the chief magistrate of a city ...

'' chosen by the

National Fascist Party The National Fascist Party ( it, Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian Fascism and as a reorganization of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat. The ...

. The office of Mayor was restored in 1945 during the Allied occupation.

Timeline

ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:12 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:130 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1918 till:12/11/1948 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1918 Colors = id:ind value:rgb(0.8,0.8,0.8) BarData = barset:PM PlotData= width:5 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till barset:PM from: 01/01/1918 till: 22/01/1922 color:skyblue text:"Bombi" fontsize:10 from: 22/01/1922 till: 28/10/1922 color:skyblue text:"Bonne" fontsize:10 from: 01/01/1924 till: 01/01/1934 color:black text:"Bombi" fontsize:10 from: 01/01/1934 till: 01/06/1938 color:black text:"Pascoli" fontsize:10 from: 01/01/1939 till: 01/06/1943 color:black text:"Casasola" fontsize:10 from: 01/06/1943 till: 18/03/1944 color:black text:"Sussi" fontsize:10 from: 18/03/1944 till: 20/09/1945 color:black text:"Coronini Cronberg" fontsize:10 from: 08/09/1945 till: 12/11/1948 color:green text:"Stecchina" fontsize:10

Italian Republic (since 1946)

City Council election (1948–1994)

From 1948 to 1994, the Mayor of Gorizia was elected by the City's Council.

Direct election (since 1994)

Since 1994, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Gorizia is chosen by direct election.

Timeline

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayors of Gorizia

Mayors of places in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Mayors Politics of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Gorizia