Marco Bucci (born in 1959) is an Italian politician and former pharmaceutical manager from

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. He is the city’s

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and its first right-wing mayor since 1975. He is popularly know as the "manager-mayor", due to the significant pragmatism which allowed him to gain the confidence of the Genoese people

Early life

Bucci graduated with degrees in chemistry and pharmacy from the

University of Genoa The University of Genoa, known also with the acronym UniGe ( it, Università di Genova), is one of the largest universities in Italy. It is located in the city of Genoa and regional Metropolitan City of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguri ...

in 1985 and worked in the chemical sector from the 1980s until the end of 1990s. From 1999 to 2016 he worked for

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and Carestream Health. In his career as a pharmaceutical manager, he worked at

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(

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), Genoa,

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and

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. In the 2017 administrative elections, he was a candidate for mayor at the head of a center-right coalition composed of

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- National Alliance, Italy-Lista Musso and from the civic list Vince Genoa, with representatives of civil society and candidates of

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who had decided not to present their own list. In the first round he collected 38.80% of the votes, competing against the center-left Gianni Crivello (33.39%). In the second round of voting on 25 June he was elected first citizen of Genoa with 55.24% of the votes succeeding

Marco Doria Patrician Marco Doria, Marquis and Count of Montaldeo (born 13 October 1957) is an Italian academic and politician from Genoa. He served as Mayor of Genoa from 2012 to 2017. Biography Doria is a descendant of the Genoese ancient and noble fa ...

. He is the first center-right mayor of Genoa since the introduction of the direct election of the mayor in 1975. On 29 September 2017 he was elected President of ANCI Liguria.

References

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