Marco Bucci (politician)

Marco Bucci (born 31 October 1959) is an Italian politician and former pharmaceutical manager.

[1] He is popularly known as the "manager-mayor", due to his presumed pragmatism which allowed him to gain the confidence of the Genoese people.

Bucci graduated with degrees in chemistry and pharmacy from the University of Genoa in 1985 and worked in the chemical sector from the 1980s until the end of 1990s.

In his career as a pharmaceutical manager, he worked at Ferrania (Savona), Genoa, Geneva and Rochester.

In the 2017 administrative elections, he was a candidate for mayor[2][3] at the head of a center-right coalition composed of Lega Nord, Forza Italia, Brothers of Italy-National Alliance, Italy-Lista Musso and from the civic list Vince Genoa, with representatives of civil society and candidates of Popular Alternative who had decided not to present their own list.