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Virginio Merola is an Italian politician who has served as the Mayor of Bologna since 2011. He was born on 14 February 1955 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
Merola graduated from the University of Bologna in 1979 with a degree in Political Science. He began his political career in the Italian Communist Party, and was elected to the City Council of Bologna in 1985. He served as the Deputy Mayor of Bologna from 1993 to 2011, and was elected Mayor in 2011.
Merola is a member of the Democratic Party, and has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2018. He is also a member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Merola is married and has two children. His net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.
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14 February 1955 |
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14 February |
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Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Campania, Italy |
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Ytaly |
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Virginio Merola Net Worth
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Timeline
In 2016 he run once again as leader of a centre-left coalition against Lucia Borgonzoni, member of Lega Nord, and Massimo Bugani, the candidate of the Five Star Movement. Merola became the most voted candidate in the first round, but gained only 39.5% of votes and did not succeed in being elected in the first round. On 19 June, he won the second round with 54.64% of votes and remained mayor.
After the establishment of metropolitan cities, administrative divisions that included a large core city and the smaller surrounding towns that are closely related to it with regard to economic activities and essential public services, on 1 January 2015 Merola became also Metropolitan Mayor of Bologna.
In September 2014 Merola transcribed, along with other centre-left mayor like Ignazio Marino and Giuliano Pisapia, in the civil register the foreign marriages of same-sex couples, which was opposed by Catholic institutions.
In 2011 election he led a centre-left coalition against Manes Bernardini, member of the right-wing regionalist Lega Nord, who led the centre-right coalition. Merola won the election in the first round with 50.47% of votes; he is the latest of a long line of left-wing mayors of Bologna.
In 2010 Delbono resigned as mayor after the so-called Cinziagate, when the Mayor was being investigated for embezzlement, fraud and aggravated abuse of office following allegations made by his former lover. Delbono's natural heir as mayor was considered Maurizio Cevenini, a famous local politician who has been a long-time member of the city council; but Cevenini suffered an ischemia on October 2010 and renounced to run as new mayor. After Cevenini's withdrawal Merola run again in the primary election against Amelia Frascaroli, a member of Left Ecology Freedom, and Benedetto Zacchiroli, an LGBT activist member of the PD, and won with 58.4% of votes.
In 2007 Virginio Merola was one of the founders of the Democratic Party. In 2008 he was candidated to the centre-left primary to become Mayor in 2009 municipal election. The contest was won by University professor and Vice President of Emilia Romagna Flavio Delbono and Merola arrived third with 21.4% of votes.
During 1970s Merola became a member of the Italian Communist Party, of which Bologna was a solid stronghold. When the PCI was transformed into a social democratic party, the Democratic Party of the Left, Merola joined it. He had been President of Savena district for the PDS from 1995 to 2004, when he was appointed city planning by mayor Sergio Cofferati, a former trade union leader.
Virginio Merola (born 14 February 1955 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Campania) is an Italian politician. Merola is a member of the Democratic Party and the current mayor of Bologna.
Virginio Merola was born on 14 February 1955 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the Province of Caserta in Campania. After a short period in Curti, his family migrated to Bologna, when he was five years old. He attended the classical lyceum Marco Minghetti and than he studied at the University of Bologna, where he graduated in philosophy.
