Nicoletta Fabio (born 13 March 1961) is an Italian politician.
A
centre-right
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, she serves as
Mayor of Siena since 2023, the first woman to hold the office.
Biography
From 1986 to 1988, Fabio was editor-in-chief of the Imago Moda magazine, published by the Edifir publishing house in
Florence
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, for which she also edited some volumes in collaboration with the Centro Moda. After enrolling in the national register of publicist journalists in 1988, she was part of the editorial staff of Gift magazine, the company newspaper of the Florence Gift Mart in Florence, from 1989 to 2003, then continuing her journalistic activity until 2015.
From 1987 to 1992 she was a tenured teacher in lower secondary school and then moved on to a tenured teacher for Literature and Latin in high schools until her mayoral run in 2023.
Mayor of Siena
On 6 March 2023 the parties of the
centre-right coalition officially presented Nicoletta Fabio as their candidate in view of the
local elections.
In the first electoral round of May 14, 2023, she obtained 30.5% of the votes, against the candidate of the
centre-left coalition Anna Ferretti, who instead obtained 28.8%, with which she goes to the ballot. Fabio won the second electoral round of 28-29 May, gaining 52.2%% of the preferences with 1,037 votes behind her challenger, becoming the first woman
Mayor of Siena.
References
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1961 births
Living people
Mayors of Siena
Women mayors of places in Italy
21st-century Italian women politicians
University of Florence alumni