List of mayors of Grosseto

Mayor of Grosseto
Sindaco di Grosseto

Incumbent Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna (Centre-right independent) since 23 June 2016
Appointer	Popular election
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Domenico Ponticelli
Formation	1865
Website	Official website

The Mayor of Grosseto is an elected politician who, along with the Grosseto's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy. The current Mayor is Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna, a centre-right independent, who took office on 23 June 2016.^[1]^[2]

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Grosseto is member of the City Council.

The Mayor is elected by the population of Grosseto, who also elects 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 1993 the Mayor is elected directly by Grosseto'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.

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

In 1865, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Grosseto (Sindaco di Grosseto), appointed by the King himself. From 1889 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.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party
–	Angelo Ferri^[3]	1859	1864
–	Luigi Romualdi^[3]	1864	1865
1	Domenico Ponticelli	1865	1867
2	Angelo Ferri	1870	1870
3	Ippolito Andreini	1870	1879
4	Ippolito Luciani	1880	1886
5	Benedetto Ponticelli	1888	1891
6	Giovanni Pizzetti	1891	1894
7	Carlo Ponticelli	1895	1902
8	Egidio Bruchi	1902	1919
9	Tito Bolognesi	1920	1921	Italian Socialist Party
10	Benedetto Pallini	1922	1924	Italian Liberal Party
11	Ado Scaramucci	1925	1926	National Fascist Party
Fascist Podestà (1926–1943)
1	Ado Scaramucci	1926	1935	National Fascist Party
2	Ezio Saletti	1935	1937	National Fascist Party
3	Angelo Maestrini	1938	1943	National Fascist Party
Allied occupation (1944–1946)
12	Lio Lenzi^[4]	17 June 1944	27 March 1946	Italian Communist Party

Timeline

Italian Republic (since 1946)

City Council election (1946–1993)

From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Grosseto was elected by the City's Council.

		Term start	Term end	Party
1	Lio Lenzi	27 March 1946	10 June 1951	Italian Communist Party
2	Renato Pollini	29 July 1951	7 June 1970	Italian Communist Party
3	Giovanni Battista Finetti	20 July 1970	15 February 1982	Italian Communist Party
4	Flavio Tattarini	15 February 1982	23 January 1992	Italian Communist Party
5	Loriano Valentini	23 January 1992	22 June 1993	Democratic Party of the Left

Direct election (since 1993)

Since 1993, under provisions of a new local administration law, the Mayor of Grosseto is chosen by direct election.

		Term start	Term end	Party
(5)	Loriano Valentini	22 June 1993	28 April 1997	Democratic Party of the Left
6	Alessandro Antichi	28 April 1997	14 May 2001	Forza Italia
6	Alessandro Antichi	14 May 2001	16 May 2005^[5]	Forza Italia
7	Emilio Bonifazi	30 May 2006	29 May 2011	The Daisy Democratic Party
7	Emilio Bonifazi	29 May 2011	23 June 2016	The Daisy Democratic Party
8	Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna	23 June 2016	8 October 2021	Centre-right independent
8	Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna	8 October 2021	Incumbent	Centre-right independent

Timeline

References

^ "Grosseto, la roccaforte Pd va al centrodestra". Corriere della Sera. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
^ "Vivarelli Colonna indossa la fascia tricolore: è ufficialmente sindaco di Grosseto". Il Tirreno. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
^ ^a ^b Gonfaloniere.
^ Appointed by the National Liberation Committee.
^ Resigned in order to run for the Presidency of Tuscany during the 2005 regional elections.

Bibliography

Corsi, Hubert (1987). La lotta politica in Maremma 1900-1925. Rome: Edizioni Cinque Lune.
Bonifazi, Emilio (2015). Grosseto e i suoi amministratori dal 1944 al 2015. Grosseto: Innocenti Editore.
Giorgio Bonfiglioli, ed. (2017). Grosseto. Appunti storici. Grosseto: Innocenti Editore.
Valeria Galimi, ed. (2018). Il fascismo a Grosseto. Figure e articolazioni del potere in provincia (1922-1938). Arcidosso: Edizioni Effigi.