| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Arezzo |
| Insignia: | Arezzo-Stemma.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Native Name: | Sindaco di Arezzo |
| Incumbentsince: | 16 June 2015 |
| Appointer: | Popular election |
| Termlength: | 5 years, renewable once |
| Formation: | 1865 |
| Inaugural: | Pietro Mori |
| Website: | Official website |
The Mayor of Arezzo is an elected politician who, along with the Arezzo's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Arezzo in Tuscany, Italy.
The current Mayor is Alessandro Ghinelli, a centre-right independent, who took office on 16 June 2015.[1]
According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Arezzo is member of the City Council.
The Mayor is elected by the population of Arezzo, 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 release the members of his government.
Since 1995 the Mayor is elected directly by Arezzo'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 after two weeks. 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.
In 1865, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of Mayor of Arezzo (Sindaco di Arezzo), 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.[2] [3]
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mori | 16 July 1865 | 31 December 1870 | ||||
| 2 | Adalindo Tanganelli | 3 October 1872 | 5 May 1874 | ||||
| 3 | Angiolo Mascagni | 22 November 1874 | 23 September 1877 | ||||
| 4 | Angiolo Guillichini | 29 July 1878 | 16 April 1879 | ||||
| (2) | Adalindo Tanganelli | 14 March 1880 | 14 December 1881 | ||||
| 5 | Ettore Nucci | 16 April 1882 | 31 December 1883 | ||||
| (3) | Angiolo Mascagni | 9 September 1885 | 21 September 1892 | ||||
| 6 | Guglielmo Duranti | 4 September 1893 | 11 February 1900 | PRI | |||
| 7 | Antonio Guiducci | 11 August 1900 | 26 April 1909 | ||||
| 8 | Pier Ludovico Occhini | 26 April 1909 | 6 July 1909 | ||||
| 9 | Ugo Mancini | 8 February 1911 | 16 April 1914 | ||||
| Cammillo Lelli | 28 July 1914 | 9 December 1919 | Liberal | ||||
| Carlo Nenci | 12 November 1920 | 9 January 1923 | Liberal | ||||
| Fiumicello Fiumicelli | 19 agosto 1923 | 8 luglio 1924 | PNF | ||||
| Fascist Podestà (1927–1943) | |||||||
| 1 | Guido Guidotti Mori | 1 January 1927 | 14 April 1930 | PNF | |||
| 2 | Pier Ludovico Occhini | 22 May 1930 | July 1939 | PNF | |||
| 3 | Varrone Ducci | 11 November 1939 | 31 August 1943 | PNF | |||
| Allied occupation (1944–1946) | |||||||
| Antonio Curina[4] | 16 July 1944 | 21 March 1946 | PdA | ||||
From 1946 to 1995, the Mayor of Arezzo was elected by the City's Council.
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrico Grazi | 21 March 1946 | 21 February 1948 | PSI | ||
| Santi Galimberti | 21 February 1948 | 30 June 1951 | PSI | ||
| Ivo Barbini | 30 June 1951 | 21 January 1955 | PSI | ||
| Cornelio Vinay | 22 June 1957 | 1 August 1963 | PSI | ||
| Aldo Ducci | 1 August 1963 | 23 March 1966 | PSI | ||
| Renato Gnocchi | 23 March 1966 | 12 July 1970 | PSI | ||
| Aldo Ducci | 12 July 1970 | 28 June 1990 | PSI | ||
| Valdo Vannucci | 28 June 1990 | 8 May 1995 | PSI | ||
Since 1995, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Arezzo is chosen by direct election, originally every four and since 1999 every five years.
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | Coalition | Election | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Paolo Ricci | 8 May 1995 | 28 June 1999 | PPI | PDSPPIFdVPdD | 1995 | ||
| Luigi Lucherini | 28 June 1999 | 28 June 2004 | FI | FIANCCD | 1999 | |||
| 28 June 2004 | 21 February 2006 | FIANUDC | 2004 | |||||
| Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (21 February 2006 – 30 May 2006) | ||||||||
| Giuseppe Fanfani | 30 May 2006 | 19 May 2011 | PD | DSDLPRC | 2006 | |||
| 19 May 2011 | 16 September 2014 | PDSELIdVFdS | 2011 | |||||
| 11 | Alessandro Ghinelli | 16 June 2015 | 6 October 2020 | Ind | FILNFdI | 2015 | ||
| 6 October 2020 | Incumbent | FILNFdI | 2020 | |||||