List of mayors of Lucca explained

Post:Mayor
Body:Lucca
Insignia:Lucca-Stemma.svg
Insigniasize:100px
Native Name:Sindaco di Lucca
Incumbent:Mario Pardini (Right-wing independent)
Incumbentsince:29 June 2022
Appointer:Popular election
Termlength:5 years, renewable once
Formation:1865
Inaugural:Demetrio Del Prete
Website:Official website

The Mayor of Lucca is an elected politician who, along with the city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. The current mayor is Mario Pardini, a right-wing independent, who took office on 29 June 2022.

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the mayor of Lucca is member of the city council.

The mayor is elected by the population of Lucca, who also elect the members of the city council, controlling the mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The mayor is entitled to appoint and dismiss the members of his government.

Since 1994, the mayor has been elected directly by Lucca's electorate. In all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round two weeks later. The election of the city council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

In 1865, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of Mayor of Lucca (Sindaco di Lucca), appointed by the King himself. From 1892 to 1926, the mayor was elected by the city council. In 1926, the Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and city councils, replacing them with an authoritarian Podestà chosen by the National Fascist Party. The office of mayor was restored in 1944 during the Allied occupation.[1]

class=unsortable MayorTerm startTerm endParty
bgcolor=Paolo Sinibaldi[2] 18591863
bgcolor=Basilio Gianni18641865
bgcolor=1Demetrio Del Prete18651870
bgcolor=2Cesare Giorgetti18711878
bgcolor=3Achille Pucci18831888
bgcolor=4Enrico Del Carlo18891896
bgcolor=5Carlo Pierantoni18961899
bgcolor=6Giovanni Battista Carrara18991900
bgcolor=7Giulio Lippi19001903
bgcolor=8Massimo Del Carlo19031906
bgcolor=9Lelio Chicca19061910
bgcolor=10Giulio Cesare Ballerini19101911
bgcolor=(8)Massimo Del Carlo19121919
bgcolor=11Umberto Teghini19191920
bgcolor=12Pietro Pfanner19201922
bgcolor=13Lorenzo Del Prete19221923
Mario Guidi19231926National Fascist Party
Fascist Podestà (1926–1944)
1Mario Guidi19261927National Fascist Party
2Lorenzo Grossi19271929National Fascist Party
3Guido Politi19301933National Fascist Party
4Pietro Minutoli Tegrimi19351939National Fascist Party
5Domenico Giannini19441944National Fascist Party
Allied occupation (1944–1946)
bgcolor= Gino Baldassarri[3] 19441946Italian Communist Party

Timeline

ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:12PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:130 left:20AlignBars = lateDateFormat = dd/mm/yyyyPeriod = from:01/01/1865 till:24/04/1946TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1865Colors = id:ind value:rgb(0.8,0.8,0.8)BarData = barset:PMPlotData= width:5 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till barset:PM from: 26/08/1865 till: 01/05/1870 color:skyblue text:"Del Prete D." fontsize:10 from: 28/11/1871 till: 06/09/1878 color:skyblue text:"Giorgetti" fontsize:10 from: 26/12/1883 till: 01/05/1888 color:skyblue text:"Pucci" fontsize:10 from: 16/11/1889 till: 26/05/1896 color:skyblue text:"Del Carlo E." fontsize:10 from: 04/07/1896 till: 26/07/1899 color:skyblue text:"Pierantoni" fontsize:10 from: 24/10/1899 till: 22/09/1900 color:skyblue text:"Carrara" fontsize:10 from: 23/11/1900 till: 01/09/1903 color:skyblue text:"Lippi" fontsize:10 from: 14/11/1903 till: 05/09/1906 color:skyblue text:"Del Carlo M." fontsize:10 from: 19/11/1906 till: 09/05/1910 color:skyblue text:"Chicca" fontsize:10 from: 22/06/1910 till: 09/10/1911 color:skyblue text:"Ballerini" fontsize:10 from: 28/10/1912 till: 01/03/1919 color:skyblue text:"Del Carlo M." fontsize:10 from: 18/04/1919 till: 08/07/1920 color:skyblue text:"Tegrini" fontsize:10 from: 17/11/1920 till: 19/04/1922 color:skyblue text:"Pfanner" fontsize:10 from: 02/05/1922 till: 02/03/1923 color:skyblue text:"Del Prete L." fontsize:10 from: 19/07/1923 till: 02/06/1927 color:black text:"Guidi" fontsize:10 from: 13/11/1927 till: 10/06/1929 color:black text:"Grossi" fontsize:10 from: 18/07/1930 till: 15/10/1933 color:black text:"Politi" fontsize:10 from: 18/03/1935 till: 20/09/1939 color:black text:"Minutoli Tegrimi" fontsize:10 from: 03/05/1944 till: 05/09/1944 color:black text:"Giannini" fontsize:10 from: 05/09/1944 till: 24/04/1946 color:claret text:"Baldassari" fontsize:10

Italian Republic (since 1946)

City Council election (1946–1994)

From 1946 to 1994, the mayor of Lucca was elected by the city's council.

class=unsortable MayorTerm startTerm endParty
1Ferdinando Martini24 April 194623 March 1948Christian Democracy
2Umberto Giannini23 March 194830 June 1951Christian Democracy
3Tito Giovanni Marchetti30 June 195126 November 1960Christian Democracy
4Italico Baccelli27 November 196016 January 1965Christian Democracy
5Giovanni Martinelli17 January 196518 December 1972Christian Democracy
6Mauro Favilla19 December 197227 November 1984Christian Democracy
7Franco Antonio Fanucchi28 November 198431 July 1985Christian Democracy
8Piero Baccelli31 July 198530 March 1988Christian Democracy
(6)Mauro Favilla30 March 19881 December 1988Christian Democracy
(7)Franco Antonio Fanucchi1 December 198818 July 1990Christian Democracy
9Arturo Pacini9 August 199019 October 1993Christian Democracy

Direct election (since 1994)

Since 1994, under provisions of new local administration law, the mayor of Lucca is chosen by direct election.

class=unsortable MayorTerm startTerm endParty
10Giulio Lazzarini12 July 19948 June 1998Social Christians
Pietro Fazzi8 June 199828 May 2002Forza Italia
28 May 20026 June 2006
Mauro Favilla13 June 200722 May 2012Forza Italia
The People of Freedom
Alessandro Tambellini22 May 201226 June 2017Democratic Party
26 June 201729 June 2022
Mario Pardini29 June 2022IncumbentRight-wing independent

Timeline

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maires, Gonfalonieri, Sindaci, Podestà e Commissari Prefettizi di Lucca dal 1806 ad oggi – Città di Lucca. 29 October 2018. it.
  2. [Gonfaloniere]
  3. Chosen by the National Liberation Committee and appointed by the Prefect.