Rosario Olivo (born 18 April 1940, in

Catanzaro Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...

) is an Italian politician. A long-time member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Socialism, socialist and later Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the l ...

(PSI), he joined the Labour Federation (FL) in 1994 and the

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of th ...

(DS) in 1998. He was deputy from 1992 to 2001 and served as the

President of Calabria This is a list of the presidents of Calabria since 1970. Until the entry into force of Constitutional Law 1/1999, the president of Calabria was elected, like the other members of the executive body of the region, by the Regional Council, among ...

from 1987 to 1992. In 2006, he was elected mayor of

. He is a Waldensian.

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1940 births Living people Presidents of Calabria Italian Christian socialists Italian Waldensians People from Catanzaro Calvinist and Reformed Christian socialists Mayors of places in Calabria Italian Socialist Party politicians Democrats of the Left politicians Democratic Party (Italy) politicians {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub