Katia Tarasconi (born 5 October 1973) is an Italian politician,

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Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

since 2022.

Biography

Tarasconi graduated in 1998 with a degree in graphic arts from

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where she worked for two years for the editorial art department of the

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. Back to Italy, she worked as commercial manager of the communication company Irix from Piacenza, of which she was managing director from 2001 to 2008.

Assessor and Councilor

She joined the

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and has been assessor for trade in

from 2007 to 2015 with the Mayor Roberto Reggi (PD) until 2012 and with the Mayor

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(PD) since 2012. In the

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, she became the first of the non-elected in the Piacenza district, but after Paola Gazzolo's nomination as Regional assessor (according to the Italian law, a role in the Regional executive is not compatible with the legislative seat) Tarasconi was proclaimed on 27 July 2015 in the former seat of her predecessor Gazzolo in the

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, being later re-elected at the 2020 regional election.

Mayor of Piacenza

On the occasion of the 2022 local elections, she announced her candidacy for the office of Mayor of Piacenza as official candidate of the

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(

, Azione and four civic lists). After obtaining 39.93% in the first round, she enters the ballot against the

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candidate and outgoing mayor

Patrizia Barbieri Patrizia Barbieri (born 8 May 1960) is an Italian politician. Biography Barbieri was born in Cremona, Italy, and she graduated in law at University of Parma. She has a law firm together with some partners in Piacenza, where she works as a civi ...

and is elected new mayor with 53,46% of the votes. She left her seat in the Regional council on 28 June - according to the Italian law, the office of Mayor is not compatible with membership of the National Parliament or Regional Council - and she officially took office as new Mayor of Piacenza on 29 June.

Personal life

Divorced, already married to an American citizen, she had two children: in September 2021, she lost her 18-year-old son Kristopher Dixon, involved in a car accident in

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References

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