Giorgio Gori
| Giorgio Gori | |
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| Mayor of Bergamo | |
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Assumed office 9 June 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Franco Tentorio |
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| Born |
24 March 1960 Bergamo, Italy |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Cristina Parodi (1995–present) |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation |
Entrepreneur Journalist |
| Website | www.giorgiogori2018.it |
Giorgio Gori (born 24 March 1960 in Bergamo) is an Italian entrepreneur, journalist and politician. Gori is a member of the Democratic Party and the current Mayor of Bergamo since June 2014.
Giorgio Gori attended the classical lyceum Paolo Scarpi in Bergamo, where he became a member of the secularist and reformism student group "Action and Freedom".
At 18 years old he started working for Radio Bergamo, a liberal radio directed by Vittorio Feltri; in the following years he worked for L'Eco di Bergamo and Bergamo Oggi, two local newspapers.
In 1984 Gori was hired by Rete 4, an Italian TV station owned by Silvio Berlusconi; during these years he became an assistant of Carlo Freccero. In 1991 Gori became the director of Canale 5, the main TV channel of Berlusconi's Mediaset; in 1997 he was appointed director of Italia 1, a position that he held for two years when he was re-appointed at the head of Canale 5.
In 2001 he founded Magnolia, a society of television production which cooperated both with Rai and Mediaset. In September 2012 he resigned and sold all his shares to enter into politics.
In December 2011 Gori joined the centre-left Democratic Party; while in 2012 he became a close advisor of Matteo Renzi, the young Mayor of Florence, who was running in the primary election to become the centre-left candidate to Prime Minister in the general election of the following year. After the first round of the December election, Renzi gained 35.5% of the vote, finishing second behind the leftist PD secretary Pier Luigi Bersani and qualifying for the second ballot. Renzi eventually gained a total of 39% of the vote against Bersani's 61% and Bersani refused to nominate Gori and Roberto Reggi as candidates for MP in the list of PD.
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