Antonella Bundu

Antonella Moro Bundu (born 4 December 1969) is an Italian politician and activist. She served as a city council member of Florence from 2019 to 2024, leading the left opposition "Sinistra Progetto Comune" group.

In 2019 she ran for the post of Mayor of Florence, making her the first black woman to run for mayor of a major Italian city. She also ran for President of Tuscany in the 2025 Tuscan regional election receiving 5% of the total votes.

Biography Antonella Bundu was born in Florence in 1969, the daughter of a Florentine mother and a Sierra Leonean father. In the late 1980s she studied in Liverpool, which she recalls as a "politically charged city" after the Toxteth riots: "I was studying black history in the city's libraries, and participated actively in the neightbourhood's protests."

An ex-DJ and activist for Oxfam, Bundu was one of the first on the scene at the 2018 Florence shooting of the Senegalese immigrant Idy Diene. She took part in the anti-racist protests which followed his death, and after making a speech at the Alfieri Theatre was invited to run for mayor on behalf of a radical-left coalition including Power to the People and the Communist Refoundation Party. In October 2025, she received the honorary member card of Movimento RadicalSocialista.

Electoral history