Savino "Sammy" Forcillo is a retired

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politician and a former mayor of Ville-Marie borough in

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Background

He has

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ancestry and has a degree from the ''

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(ENAP)''.

Civic Party

He was a member of

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. He was elected to Montreal's

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in 1978 in Saint-Jacques, a district with a significant amount of

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residents. He was re-elected in 1982, but was defeated by RCM candidate

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in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won a

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in the same district following Blain's death in office.

Vision Montreal

When the Civic Party ceased to exist and merged with

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's ''Parti des Montréalais (Montrealers’ Party)'', Forcillo decided to support Pierre Bourque and join

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. He was re-elected in 1994 and became Deputy Chairman of Montreal Executive Committee.

Team Montreal

In 1997 he was asked to resign from the Executive Committee. He left

and sat as an

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, but refused to leave the Executive Committee. In 1998 he first announced that he would support

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for Mayor, but eventually changed his mind. He ended up being re-elected as a candidate for

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's ''

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( Team Montreal)''.

Union Montreal

In 2000 Forcillo sat again as an

and joined

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's ''

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'' (french: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal or UCIM; the party is now known as ''

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''). He lost against

's candidate

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in 2001, but was re-elected in 2005 representing the merged district of Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques. He has been a Member of Montreal's Executive Committee since then. On June 25, 2008, Tremblay named Forcillo as the Executive Member responsible for the city's finances following a re-organization that was made necessary following the resignation of the president of the Executive Council,

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He ran again in the 2009 2009 Montreal municipal election, Montreal municipal election for Union Montréal in the adjacent district of Peter-McGill.

Retirement

Forcillo announced on August 30, 2013 that he would not be running again in the municipal elections on November 3, 2013.Sammy Forcillo quits Montreal city politics after 29 years
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