Sergio Chiamparino (born 1 September 1948) is an Italian politician. He was

President of Piedmont The president of Piedmont is the head of the government of the region. The presidents elected between 1970 and 1995 were elected by the Regional Council of Piedmont. Later they were directly elected by the population. This is the list of president ...

from 2014 to 2019, and was the

mayor of Turin The mayor of Turin (Italian: ''sindaco di Torino'') is an elected politician who, along with the Turin City Council of 40 members, is accountable for the government of Turin, Piedmont, Italy. The current mayor is Stefano Lo Russo, a universit ...

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from 2001 to 2011. A graduate in political sciences at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...

, where he worked as a researcher until 1975, Chiamparino started his political career that same year as head of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...

in the Town Council of Moncalieri, his native city. He joined the

Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left ( it, Partito Democratico della Sinistra, PDS) was a democratic socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party, ...

on its formation and was elected to the

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in 1996, following a surprise defeat in 1994 to the centre-right candidate

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(a former Freemason who laterly become an Orthodox bishop) in the left-leaning district of

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. He was elected mayor of Turin in 2001, succeeding to

Valentino Castellani Valentino Castellani (born 19 March 1940) was the independent Mayor of Turin, Italy, from 24 June 1993 to 1 June 2001. He is also a noted university professor and alumni of the Polytechnic University of Turin, where he got a master's degree in ...

and then re-elected in May 2006 with 66.6% of votes, defeating the centre-right candidate

Rocco Buttiglione Rocco Buttiglione (; born 6 June 1948) is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. Buttiglione's nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted ...

. He was afterward elected president of the Piedmont regional council in 2014.

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