Mayor of Rome

The Mayor of Rome (Italian: Sindaco di Roma Capitale) is an elected politician who, along with Rome’s City Council (Italian: Assemblea Capitolina) of 48 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Rome. As Rome is a comune speciale since 2009, the office is different from the offices of the other Italian cities. The title is the equivalent of Lord Mayor in the meaning of an actual executive leader.

Mayor of Rome Sindaco di Roma Capitale
Incumbent Virginia Raggi since 22 June 2016
Style	No title or style
Residence	Palazzo Senatorio
Appointer	Electorate of Rome
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Francesco Rospigliosi Pallavicini
Formation	23 September 1870
Deputy	Luca Bergamo
Salary	€4,500 per month
Website	Official website

Overview

Current seat of the Mayor, Palazzo Senatorio on Capitoline Hill.

According to the City of Rome Statutes, the Mayor of Rome is a member of Rome's City Council (Italian: Assemblea Capitolina). The Mayor is elected by the population of Rome. Citizens elect also the members of the City Council, which also controls the Mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his or her resignation by a motion of no confidence. The Mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of their government, which are twelve (Italian: Assessori delle Giunta Capitolina) according to the Italian Constitution.

The seat of the City Council is the city hall Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill.

History

As capital of the Papal States, Rome did not receive its Mayor until 1870, when it became the capital of Kingdom of Italy. The new Mayor served as member of the city council and he was appointed every three years by the King of Italy. Then since 1889 the Mayor was elected every four years by the City Council. However, the fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils in 1926, replacing them with a single authoritarian Rector (Podestà) chosen by the National Fascist Party. The rector of Rome was called "Governatore" (Governor).

After World War II, the Mayor was chosen by the City Council and only in 1993 the Mayor was firstly elected by the population (originally every four, then every five years).

List of Mayors of Rome

Papal States (1558–1870)

From 1558 to 1870, the Papal States created the office of Governatore (Governor), also called Vice Camerlengo, chosen by the Pope.

• 1558–1560 – Virgilio Rosario
• 1560–1588 – Giacomo Savelli
• 1588–1603 – Girolamo Rusticucci
• 1603–1605 – Camillo Borghese (future Pope Paul V)
• 1605–1610 – Girolamo Pamphili
• 1610–1629 – Giovanni Garzia Millini
• 1629–1671 – Marzio Ginetti
• Acting 1671 – Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
• 1671–1714 – Gaspare Carpegna
• 1714–1721 – Giovanni Domenico Paracciani
• 1721–1726 – Fabrizio Paolucci
• 1726–1732 – Prospero Marefoschi
• 1732–1759 – Giovanni Antonio Guadagni
• 1759–1762 – Antonio Maria Erba Odescalchi
• 1762–1793 – Marcantonio Colonna
• 1793–1795 – Andrea Corsini
• 1795–1810 – Giulio Maria della Somaglia
• 1810–1813 – Antonio Despuig y Dameto
• 1813–1820 – Lorenzo Litta
• 1820–1823 – Annibale Sermattei della Genga (future Pope Leo XII)
• Acting 1823–1824 – Giuseppe della Porta Rodiani
• 1824–1834 – Placido Zurla
• 1834–1838 – Carlo Odescalchi
• 1838–1841 – Giuseppe della Porta Rodiani
• 1841–1870 – Costantino Patrizi Naro

Kingdom of Italy (1870–1946)

From 1870, when Rome was annexed, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Rome (Sindaco di Roma), chosen by the City council. In 1926, the Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils, replacing them with a single authoritarian Governatore (Governor) chosen by the National Fascist Party.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party
–	Michelangelo Caetani[1]	23 September 1870	30 September 1870	Independent
–	Giuseppe Lunati[2]	29 November 1870	20 December 1870	Independent
–	Filippo Doria Pamphili[2]	21 December 1870	March 1871	Independent
–	Giovanni Angelini[2]	March 1871	16 April 1871	Independent
1	Francesco Rospigliosi Pallavicini	16 April 1871	21 October 1871	Independent
2	Luigi Pianciani	29 July 1873	5 August 1874	Left
3	Pietro Venturi	15 January 1875	7 November 1877	Left
4	Emanuele Ruspoli	18 July 1878	20 July 1880	Right
(2)	Luigi Pianciani	October 1881	May 1882	Left
5	Leopoldo Torlonia	May 1882	31 December 1887	Right
6	Alessandro Guiccioli	24 October 1888	28 November 1889	Left
7	Augusto Armellini	28 November 1889	20 June 1890	Left
8	Onorato Caetani	29 December 1890	14 November 1892	Right
(4)	Emanuele Ruspoli	14 November 1892	29 November 1899	Right
9	Prospero Colonna di Paliano	December 1899	October 1904	Right
10	Enrico Cruciani Alibrandi	10 July 1905	10 July 1907	Independent
11	Ernesto Nathan	25 November 1907	8 December 1913	Radical
(9)	Prospero Colonna di Paliano	6 July 1914	8 June 1919	Liberal
12	Adolfo Apolloni	8 June 1919	25 November 1920	Liberal
13	Luigi Rava	25 November 1920	23 May 1921	Liberal
14	Giannetto Valli	23 May 1921	26 June 1922	Liberal
15	Filippo Cremonesi	26 June 1922	1 January 1926	Independent
Fascist Governor (1926–1944)
1	Filippo Cremonesi	1 January 1926	9 December 1926	PNF
2	Ludovico Spada Veralli Potenziani	9 December 1926	13 September 1928	PNF
3	Francesco Boncompagni Ludovisi	13 September 1928	23 January 1935	PNF
4	Giuseppe Bottai	23 January 1935	15 November 1936	PNF
5	Piero Colonna	15 November 1936	30 August 1939	PNF
6	Giangiacomo Borghese	30 August 1939	21 August 1943	PNF
7	Giovanni Orgera	6 January 1944	10 June 1944	PFR
Allied occupation (1944–1946)
16	Filippo Andrea VI Doria Pamphili	10 June 1944	10 December 1946	Independent

Republic of Italy (1946–present)

From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Rome was chosen by the City Council.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party	Coalition	Election
17	Salvatore Rebecchini	10 December 1946	2 July 1956	DC	DC (1946–47) DC  • PLI  • UQ (1947–52) DC  • PLI  • PRI (1952–56)	1946 1947 1952
18	Umberto Tupini	2 July 1956	10 January 1958	DC	Centrism (DC  • PLI  • PRI  • PSDI)	1956
19	Urbano Cioccetti	10 January 1958	11 July 1961	DC
-	Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (11 July 1961 – 17 July 1962)[lower-alpha 1]					1960
20	Glauco Della Porta	17 July 1962	12 March 1964	DC	Organic Centre-left (DC  • PSI  • PSDI  • PRI)	1962
21	Amerigo Petrucci	12 March 1964	29 December 1967	DC		1966
22	Rinaldo Santini	29 December 1967	30 July 1969	DC
23	Clelio Darida	30 July 1969	9 August 1976	DC	DC  • PSI  • PSDI (1969–71) DC (1971–76)	1971
24	Giulio Carlo Argan	9 August 1976	29 September 1979	SI	Red Junta (PCI  • PSI  • PSDI  • PRI)	1976
25	Luigi Petroselli	29 September 1979	7 October 1981[lower-alpha 2]	PCI
26	Ugo Vetere	15 October 1981	30 July 1985	PCI		1981
27	Nicola Signorello	30 July 1985	6 August 1988	DC	Pentapartito (DC  • PSI  • PSDI  • PRI  • PLI)	1985
28	Pietro Giubilo	6 August 1988	19 July 1989	DC
-	Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (19 July 1989 – 19 December 1989)[lower-alpha 3]
29	Franco Carraro	19 December 1989	19 April 1993	PSI	Pentapartito (DC  • PSI  • PSDI  • PRI  • PLI)	1989
-	Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (19 April 1993 – 6 December 1993)[lower-alpha 4]

Notes

1. Nominated by the Prefect after the City Council failed to elect a Mayor.
2. Died in office.
3. Nominated by the Prefect after the Mayor lost the support of the majority of the City Council.
4. Nominated by the Prefect after the Mayor and the members of the City Council resigned in order to hold a new election under the provision of the new local electoral law.

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Rome is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and since 2001 every five years.

	Mayor of Rome			Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition		Election
30			Francesco Rutelli (b. 1954)	6 December 1993	8 January 2001[3]	FdV		Alliance of Progressives 5 December 1993 – 17 November 1997	1993
								The Olive Tree 17 November 1997 – 8 January 2001	1997
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (8 January 2001 – 1 June 2001)
31			Walter Veltroni (b. 1955)	1 June 2001	13 February 2008[4]	DS PD		The Olive Tree 1 June 2001 – 1 June 2006	2001
								The Olive Tree 1 June 2006 – 13 February 2008	2006
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (13 February 2008 – 28 April 2008)
32			Gianni Alemanno (b. 1958)	28 April 2008	12 June 2013	PdL		PdL 28 April 2008 – 12 June 2013	2008
33			Ignazio Marino (b. 1955)	12 June 2013	31 October 2015[5]	PD		PD  • SEL 12 June 2013 – 31 October 2015	2013
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (31 October 2015 – 22 June 2016)
34			Virginia Raggi (b. 1978)	22 June 2016	Incumbent	M5S		M5S since 22 June 2016	2016

Timeline

Mayors

Political coalition

By time in office

Rank	Mayor	Political Party	Total time in office
1	Salvatore Rebecchini	DC	9 years, 205 days
2	Francesco Rutelli	FdV	7 years, 33 days
3	Clelio Darida	DC	7 years, 10 days
4	Walter Veltroni	DS	6 years, 257 days
5	Gianni Alemanno	PdL	5 years, 45 days
6	Virginia Raggi	M5S	4 years, 54 days
7	Amerigo Petrucci	DC	3 years, 292 days
8	Ugo Vetere	PCI	3 years, 288 days
9	Urbano Cioccetti	DC	3 years, 182 days
10	Franco Carraro	PSI	3 years, 121 days
11	Giulio Carlo Argan	SI	3 years, 51 days
12	Nicola Signorello	DC	3 years, 7 days
13	Ignazio Marino	PD	2 years, 141 days
14	Luigi Petroselli	PCI	2 years, 8 days
15	Glauco Della Porta	DC	1 year, 239 days
16	Rinaldo Santini	DC	1 year, 213 days
17	Umberto Tupini	DC	1 year, 192 days
18	Pietro Giubilo	DC	347 days

Election

See also: Elections in Rome

References

1. President of the Government Council of Rome (Presidente della Giunta di Governo di Roma).
2. Acting mayor.
3. He left the office because he was candidate at the 2001 general election as Prime Minister.
4. He left the office because he was candidate at the 2008 general election as Prime Minister.
5. Ousted from office after more than half the city's councillors stepped down.