All those elected to the Modena City Council were validated today during the first council meeting with the exception of the two councilors appointed as assessors by Mayor Massimo Mezzetti for whom the relative surrogates in the Pd group were approved: in place of the new assessors Federica Venturelli and Andrea Bortolamasi, Alberto Bignardi and Lucia Connola enter the Council.
The Council’s inaugural session today, Monday 1 July, opened with the verification of the eligibility conditions of the 32 councillors chosen by citizens in the administrative elections of 8 and 9 June. The validation of the nominations and the replacement were voted unanimously. This phase of the session was chaired by Grazia Baracchi in her capacity as senior councillor (after the appointment of Venturelli and Bortolamasi to the council), a term that indicates the councillor who has achieved the highest individual figure (list vote plus personal preference votes).
The 32 councilors are therefore: for the Pd, Grazia Baracchi, Diego Lenzini, Andrea Bosi, Fabio Poggi, Antonio Carpentieri, Francesca Cavazzuti, Giulia Ugolini, Luca Barbari, Stefano Manicardi, Gianluca Fanti, Francesco Antonio Fidanza, Vittorio Reggiani, Vincenza Carriero, Federica Di Padova, Fabia Giordano, Alberto Bignardi , Lucia Connola (first of the non-elected Anna De Lillo, Mattia Gualdi, Salvatore Mirabelli); For Green Left AllianceLaura Ferrari, Martino Abrate (first of the non-elected Corrado Cananiello); for the 5 Star MovementGiovanni Silingardi (first of the non-elected Iman Sourour; per Action with Calenda We are Europeans, Paolo Ballestrazzi (first of the non-elected Antonio Dell’Erario); For Modena CivicKatia Parisi (first of the non-elected Rosario Maragò); Luca Negrini for Brothers of Italy and the civic list Luca Negrini mayor; for Brothers of ItalyFerdinando Pulitanò, Daniela Dondi, Elisa Rossini, Paolo Barani, Dario Franco (before the non-elected Lucia Palmieri); for the list Luca Negrini mayor, Andrea Mazzi (before the non-elected Grazia Ruini); For Forza ItaliaPiergiulio Giacobazzi (before the non-elected Federica Fontana); for Modena League, Giovanni Bertoldi (before the non-elected Valentina Mazzacurati); for the list Modena for ModenaMaria Grazia Modena (first of the non-elected Camillo Po).
The city councilors have ten days, from this first session, to declare which group they intend to join, also in view of the composition of the council commissions.
Mezzetti’s oath and speech
“I swear to fulfill the mandate in full compliance with the Italian Constitution and the Laws of the State”. This is the formula with which Mayor Massimo Mezzetti swore this afternoon, Monday 1 July, with his hand on the Italian Constitution and wearing the tricolour sash, before the newly installed City Council. After the validation of the elected councillors, the president of the assembly Grazia Baracchi invited all the councillors to stand up for the oath at the end of which councillors and the public applauded.
This is the first speech in the Council of the new mayor of Modena.
