(ANSA) – GENOA, 13 JUN – The former mayor of Genoa Giuseppe Pericu, a well-known administrative lawyer and university professor, died at the age of 84. He led the city for two terms from 1997 to 2007 with the center-left coalition: the first time with 51.5% of the vote, the second with 60.3%. In 1994 during the XII Legislature he was elected deputy for the Italian Socialist Party and in 2007 he joined the Democratic Party. He was currently president of the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts. He had been ill for some time.
It was the mayor who managed the events of the 2001 G8 and the process that led Genoa to be proclaimed European Capital of Culture in 2004. He was a member of the Board of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and of the Board of Carige representing the majority shareholder Vittorio Malacalza. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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