Nicola Fiorita

Nicola Fiorita (born 14 July 1969) is an Italian academic and politician, Mayor of Catanzaro since 2022.

Biography Son of Franco Fiorita, former mayor of Catanzaro, he graduated in law at the University of Florence and became a university professor at the University of Calabria, dealing with law and religion, secularism and European Islam.

Always close to the left, Fiorita has been a candidate in the local elections of 2017 for the office of mayor of Catanzaro leading a left-wing coalition and ranking third with a percentage of 23.23%.

Mayor of Catanzaro Following an agreement between the Democratic Party, Five Star Movement, Volt and other progressive movements, Fiorita became the official candidate of the centre-left coalition for the office of mayor of Catanzaro in the local elections of 2022. He was elected mayor in the second turn, defeating the centre-right candidate Valerio Donato, with a percentage of 58%. However, his election marked a lame duck (anatra zoppa) situation: The lists in support of him received only 25.85% of the votes, while the lists supporting Donato received 53.81% of the vote, thus he was elected without a majority on the city council.