Giancarlo Tei

Giancarlo Tei (born 16 March 1961) is an Italian politician. A member of the Italian Socialist Party and later the Italian Democratic Socialists, he served as a member of the Regional Council of Tuscany and mayor of Magliano in Toscana. He also served as councillor and assessor in Grosseto.

Life and career Tei was born in 1961 in Magliano in Toscana, province of Grosseto. He obtained a diploma as a surveyor and has worked as an employee of the provincial administration of Grosseto. He entered politics in 1979 as a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and became its provincial secretary in 1993.

He began his administrative career in 1985 as an assessor in his hometown Magliano and was elected mayor in 1990, serving two terms until 1999. In 2011, he joined a civic list and was appointed assessor for environment, and later for urban planning, in the second Bonifazi administration. In 2013, he became a member of the Democratic Party.