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Italo Falcomatà | |
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20th Mayor of Reggio Calabria | |
In office 23 November 1993 – 11 December 2001 | |
Preceded by | Giuseppe Reale |
Succeeded by | Giuseppe Scopelliti |
Personal details | |
Born | Reggio Calabria, Italy | 8 October 1943
Died | 11 December 2001 Reggio Calabria, Italy | (aged 58)
Cause of death | Leukemia |
Political party | Democrats of the Left (1998–2001) |
Other political affiliations | Italian Communist Party (1970–1991), Democratic Party of the Left (1991–1998) |
Children | Giuseppe Falcomatà |
Italo Falcomatà (1943 – 2001) was an Italian politician and school and university teacher. Three times mayor of Reggio Calabria, from 1993 to 2001, [1] under his guidance a period known as the Reggio Spring began. From 1970 to 1971, the city of Reggio was the scene of a popular uprising – known as the Moti di Reggio – against the government choice of Catanzaro as capital of the newly instituted Region of Calabria; afterwards there was a period of social and urban deterioration which lasted until the Reggio Spring began. His youngest child Giuseppe Falcomatà is the current mayor of Reggio since 2014.