In Verona with Tommasi 5 men and 5 women in the council and deputy mayor with responsibility for gender equality. Poggio: “Enhancement of female figures”
VERONA. A compound joint from 5 men and 5 womena deputy mayor with delegation to gender equality it’s a 26-year-old councilor, the youngest in the history of Verona. This is the squad presented by the newly elected mayor of Verona, Damiano Tommasi that Monday 18 July 2022 signed the decrees appointing the 10 members of the municipal councilthus presenting his councilors.
“A junta of different orientation to the last ones who ruled the Scaliger citya long stronghold of conservative and sovereign forces – comment Barbara PoggioVice Rector for Equity and Diversity Policies of the University of Trento – which to some extent are already evident in the composition. For the first time Verona will see a equal joint with respect to gender: 5 women and 5 men. Among them several young people, so theaverage is equal to 46 years of age“.
A council that is also characterized by a “strong civic matrix“, with the introduction of a new delegation in the Municipality of Verona, to gender equality in the hands of the deputy mayor and councilor Barbara Bissoli.
“Attention to the gender equality yes obviously then fromadministration operator– concludes Poggio – but the choices related to composition of the juntathe attribution of proxies and the enhancement of the female figure in the representative roles of the institution is a good starting point“.
The members of the new government team under the leadership of Mayor Tommasi are the deputy mayor and councilor Barbara Bissoli (Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Cultural Heritage and Landscape, Gender Equality, General Affairs); the commissioner Federico Benini (Decentralization, Social housing, Demographic and statistical services, Roads and gardens, Urban furniture); the commissioner Michele Bertucco (Budget, Assets, Work, Personnel); the commissioner Jacopo Buffolo (Youth and participation policies, Equal opportunities, Innovation); councilor Luisa Ceni (Social and housing policies, Taxes and cadastral pole); assessor Tommaso Ferrari (Ecological transition, Environment, Mobility, Relations with the Council); councilor Elisa La Paglia (Educational and school policies, Libraries, School building, Health and proximity services); assessor Italo Sandrini (Third Sector, Production and trade activities, Relations with the territory); councilor Stefania Zivelonghi (Security, Legality, Transparency).