The Mayor of Palermo is an elected politician who, along with the Palermo’s City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Palermo

Palermo

Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...

 in Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

, Italy

Italy

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Since November 27 2001, Diego Cammarata holds the position. Previously, the position was held by Leoluca Orlando

Leoluca Orlando

Leoluca Orlando , is an Italian politician, who was mayor of Palermo in 1985-1990 and 1993-2000. He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia.-Biography:Orlando was born in Palermo...

 from the December 1993 until his succession by Camarata.

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Mayors

Since 1860, newborn Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was its legal predecessor state...

 created the office of the Mayor of Palermo (Sindaco di Palermo), chosen by the City council.

• 1861-1862, Salesio Balsamo
• 1862-1863, Mariano Stabile
• 1863-1866, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì
  Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì
  Marquis Antonio Starabba di Rudinì was the 18th and 21st Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1866-1873, Salesio Balsano
• 1873-1876, Emanuale Notarbartolo
• 1876-1878, Francesco Paolo Perez
• 1878-1880, Giovanni Raffaele
• 1880-1881, Salesio Balsano
• 1881-1882, Nicolò Turrisi Colonna
• 1882-1885, Piero Ugo Delle Fave
• 1885, Salvatore Romano Lo Faso
• 1885, Fortunato Vergara di Fraco
• 1885-1886, Giulio Benso Sammartino Duca della Verdura
• 1886-1887, Nicolò Turrisi Colonna
• 1887-1890, Giulio Benso Sammartino Duca della Verdura
• 1890-1892, Emanuele Paternò
• 1892-1893, Piero Ugo Delle Fave
• 1893-1895, Eugenio Olivieri
• 1895-1897, Angelo Pantaleone
• 1897-1898, Michele Amato Pojero
• 1898-1900, Eugenio Olivieri
• 1900, Maria Rebucci
• 1900-1901, Paolo Beccadelli di Camporeale
• 1901-1902, Pietro Vayrat
• 1902-1903, Giuseppe Tasca Lanza
• 1903-1905, Pietro Buonanno
• 1905-1906, Girolamo di Martino
• 1906-1907, Giuseppe Tasca Lanza
• 1907-1908, Pietro Francesco Tesauro
• 1908-1909, Gennauro Bladier
• 1909-1910, Romualdo Trigona di Sant'Elia
• 1910-1911, Francesco Gay
• 1911-1912, Girolamo di Martino
• 1912-1914, Vincenzo di Salvo
• 1914-1920, Salvatore Tagliavia
• 1920-1924, Giuseppe Lanza di Scalea
• 1924-1925, Salvatore Del Sano
• 1925-1926, Salvatore Di Marzo

Fascist rectors

Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils in 1926, replacing them with a single authoritarian Rector (Podestà

Podestà

Podestà is the name given to certain high officials in many Italian cities, since the later Middle Ages, mainly as Chief magistrate of a city state , but also as a local administrator, the representative of the Emperor.The term derives from the Latin word potestas, meaning power...

) chosen by the National Fascist Party

National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism...

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• 1926-1929, Salvatore Di Marzo
• 1929-1933, Michele Spadafora
• 1933-1934, prefectural dictator Giuseppe Borrelli
• 1934-1939, Giuseppe Noto
• 1939-1943, Giuseppe Sofia

• 1943-1946, some special commissioners (Allied invasion of Sicily
  Allied invasion of Sicily
  The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis . It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign.Husky began on the night of...
  
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Elected mayors

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Palermo is chosen by popular election, originally every four, and later every five years.

	Mayor of Palermo Palermo Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...			Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition
29			Leoluca Orlando Leoluca Orlando Leoluca Orlando , is an Italian politician, who was mayor of Palermo in 1985-1990 and 1993-2000. He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia.-Biography:Orlando was born in Palermo...	December 1, 1993	December 19, 2000	Movement for Democracy - The Net  then The Olive Tree		PDS Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...  - PRC Communist Refoundation Party The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist Italian political party. Its current secretary is Paolo Ferrero....  - Civic Lists December 1, 1993 – December 1, 1997
								The Olive Tree  December 1, 1997 – December 19, 2000
30			Diego Cammarata	Novemebr 25, 2001	incumbent	Forza Italia Forza Italia Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....  then People of Freedom		House of Freedoms House of Freedoms The House of Freedoms , was a major Italian centre-right political and electoral alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi. It was initially composed of several political parties:*Forza Italia *National Alliance...   November 25, 2001 – June 1, 2007
								PDL - UDC - MpA Movement for Autonomy The Movement for Autonomies is a regionalist Christian democratic political party in Italy. It demands economic development and greater autonomy for Sicily, mainly, and for other regions of Southern Italy... since June 1, 2007