Neck and neck

Neck and neck

The elected heads of Florence and Verona are the best loved in all of Italy. Confirming the 2010 results of the annual Monitor Città (see ‘FiRenzi most loved!' in TF 128), conducted by the Fullresearch Institute, which measures Italian citizens' satisfaction with mayors' performance, Florence mayor Matteo Renzi

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Thu 07 Apr 2011 12:00 AM

The elected heads of Florence and
Verona are the best loved in all of Italy. Confirming the 2010 results of the
annual Monitor Città (see ‘FiRenzi most loved!’ in TF 128), conducted by the
Fullresearch Institute, which measures Italian citizens’ satisfaction with
mayors’ performance, Florence mayor Matteo Renzi was again named Italy’s
most-loved mayor with 68.1 percent.

Renzi,
however, will have to share the podium with the mayor of Verona, Flavio Tosi,
who also received 68.1 percent in citizen-satisfaction votes this year.

 

Runners
up were Turin’s mayor, Sergio Chiamparino, who moved up to second place in the
ranking with 65.9 percent; the mayor of Sassari, Gianfranco Ganau, followed,
clinching third place, with a 65 percent citizen satisfaction rate. Other
mayors who made the top 10 include rising stars from the South, the mayors of
Bari and Salerno, Michele Emiliano and Vincenzo De Luca respectively, who
significantly moved up in the latest ranking.

 

Meanwhile
Rome’s Gianni Alemanno slipped from third place in 2010 to 19th place, with a
rate of 59.1 percent. According to the 2011 survey, 42 Italian mayors surpassed
the 55 percent satisfaction rate: 27 from the centre-left and 15 from the
centre-right; 19 in the north; nine in central Italy; and 14 in the south.

 

Also
measuring citizens’ satisfaction with the quality of life and overall
satisfaction with city services, the survey revealed that Bolzano has the best
services in Italy, with a rate of 76.3 percent citizen satisfaction; followed
by Trento (71.5 percent) and Belluno (66.1 percent) in second and third places,
respectively. Except for the Tuscan city of Siena, the first 20 spots in the
ranking were claimed by cities in Italy’s richer, more industrialized North. 

 

 

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