page_title: Giorgio Gori
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Giorgio Gori / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Giorgio Gori alla cerimonia delle benemerenze civiche 2016, al teatro Sociale di Bergamo Alta
context_page_description: Giorgio Gori is an Italian entrepreneur, journalist and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has been the mayor of Bergamo since June 2014.
context_section_description: In December 2011 Gori joined the centre-left Democratic Party. In 2012 he became a close advisor of Matteo Renzi, the Mayor of Florence who was running in the primary election to become the centre-left candidate for Prime Minister in the general election of the following year.
  In 2014 Gori announced his intention to run in the Bergamo municipal election in the same year. In the centre-left primary election in February he gained 58.5% of votes beating the civic Nadia Ghisalberti and Luciano Ongaro (member of Left Ecology Freedom). In the mayoral election of June 2014, Gori gained 45.1% of votes in the first round and then he won with 53.5% against the centre-right incumbent Mayor Franco Tentorio. On 1 June 2017 Gori announced his intention to run as centre-left candidate to the Presidency of Lombardy in the Lombard regional election of 4 March 2018. Gori's principal rivals were Attilio Fontana (LN, supported by center-right coalition) and Dario Violi (M5S). On 4 March 2018 Gori lost the regional election with 29%, the worst result of a center-left candidate since the 2000 election.
  As the mayor of Bergamo, Gori raised controversy on February 11, 2020 by tweeting that he dined in a Chinese restaurant in solidarity with citizens who were attacked by "alarmists", and adding that there was "really nothing to fear".
caption: Gori in December 2016
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