San Giovanni in Fiore, five-way challenge for the mayor’s seat. There are five candidates who will compete for the tricolor band in the administrative elections of 24-25 May 2026, with a possible run-off on 7-8 June: in alphabetical order, Marco Ambrogio, Antonio Barile, Giuseppe Belcastro, Luigi Candalise and Stefania Fratto.
The vote arrives one year ahead of the natural deadline, after the election of the outgoing mayor Rosaria Succurro to the Regional Council of Calabria. Taking up the baton from the centre-right is her husband, the outgoing councilor Marco Ambrogio, who is running with ten lists aiming for victory in the first round.
The protagonists of the challenge
* Antonio Barile: Supporter of the “free market”, but who looks above all to the needs of the less well-off classes, Barile, 65 years old, is a chartered accountant, entrepreneur and financial consultant. Married and the father of a young man, the “twice mayor” is considered a passionate person who neither wants nor ever seeks alliances or compromises. A sort of “anti-politician” who over the years has seen him as a protagonist, even as an opposition councilor, in defense of the unemployed. The former “Giubbe Rosse” are proof of this.
* Giuseppe Belcastro: Retired, 67 years old, accountant (he also graduated in political science a few months ago), freelance journalist, former mayor of the Democratic Party from 2015 to 2020, his entire working life was spent in the management of the CISL. Married and the father of a girl, he is almost a “son of art”; in fact, for 40 years or so in the CISL Bruzia it has always tried to improve the socio-economic conditions of many workers, mostly precarious forestry workers.
* Luigi Candalise: Designated by “I (gli) Spontanei”, and having obtained the imprimatur of the city’s Democratic Party, as well as the endorsement of the provincial secretariats of the Italian Left and the Communist Refoundation, Candalise, 35 years old, engaged, graduated in Economics, entrepreneur, works almost permanently in Sila. From a traditionally left-wing family, he is the expression of novelty. In his support, therefore, there will be 2 lists: one from the Pd, and the other from the Spontanei movement.
* Marco Ambrogio: Originally from Cosenza, 45 years old, entrepreneur, lawyer, married and father of three girls, he was previously a councilor and councilor for the capital municipality. In the top management of the national Arci, in the last 5 years he has supported his mayor wife, Rosaria Succurro, as head of cabinet, as well as in the Province. Since the beginning of last December, he has been super councillor, with responsibilities for the Budget, Public Works, Urban Planning and Personnel.
* Stefania Fratto: Leader of “Women and Rights” began by shaping that Committee with others in 2000 with less than 30 members, while today the Committee has over 314 ladies. Graduated in political science, 48 years old, married and mother of a girl, she works at Enas, but is always active with “Women and rights” so much so that with a handful of her colleagues she was received at the Department of Health by the then minister Roberto Speranza, to strengthen the city hospital.
The lists in support of Marco Ambrogio
Sila in the heart
Giuseppe Rota
Pietro Paolo Audia
Rosanna Bitonti
Mariafrancesca De Franco
Federica De Luca
Francesca Fraschini
Katia Guarasci
Elena Iaquinta
Steven Ierardi
Francesca Mazzei
Alfredo Pio Perri
Michele Perri (known as Taccia)
Francesco Pignanelli
Teresa Maria Sellaro
Rosaria Talerico
Lara Gallo
Florense value
Antonio Martino (known as Antonello)
Teresa Cannizzaro
Pietro Spadafora
Isabella Bruno
Luana Mazzei
Daniela Meluso
Daniele Aiello
Luigi Lopez (aka Gino)
Valentina Stambene
Pasquale Audia
Francesco De Marco
Caterina Bassi
Manuela Guido
Giuseppe Umberto Conte
Rosa Bonasso
Salvatore Passavanti
Future
Serafina Lepera
Francesco Giovanni Marra
Rosa Angela Guzzo
Pietro Di Falco
Saveria Serra
Vincenzo Procopio
Giuseppe Mele
Salvatore Paletta
Renato Lacava
Antonella Panucci
Giovambattista Costanzo
Salvatore Spina
Biagio Orlando
Benincasa freed
Pietro Ferrarelli
Rosa Loria
Let’s continue
Giovanni Fragale
Giovanna Donato
Monica Spadafora
Vittoria Romano
Valentina Alessio
Giovanni Silvestri
Rosalba Mannarino
Paolo Granato
Sonia Valentino
Alessandra Moraca
Serafino Caputo
Mario Marra
Francesca Curia
Paolo Spina Iaconis
Anita Greco
Barbara Lopez
San Giovanni Capitale
Luigi Foglia
Lidia Andrieri
Mario Cardamone
Caterina De Marco (known as Catia)
Saveria Abbruzzino
Graziella Bibiani
Marianna Martino
Anna Alessio
Filomena Puleio
Giovanna Francesca Crogliano
Rossella Amelio
Salvatore Antonio Secreti
Saida Nadif
Biagio Gallo
Paolo Ventrici
Salvatore Fittante
Civic commitment
Giuseppe Simone Bitonti
Veronica Barberio
Emilio Colosimo
Simona De Luca
Caterina De Marco (known as Catia)
Teresa Donato
Antonella Dori
Fragal Rose
Antonella Mascaro
Francesco Mazzei (known as Castagna)
Maria Caterina Merandi
Maria Teresa Nicoletti
Francesco Oliviero
Antonietta Sirianni
Giacomo Spano
Antonio Veltri
For Rosaria
Claudia Loria
Giuseppe Marra (known as Pino)
Andrea Sellaro
Francesca Oliviero
Antonio Talerico
Francesco Granato
Gwendolyn Marasco
Fiorella Cirò
Anna Marano
Bernardo Antonio Oliviero
Giovanni Costante
Aldo Pupo
Maria Valente
Antonietta Secreti
Giuseppe Cerminara
Enzo Iaquinta
We Moderates
Andrea Ferrara
Yvonne Belcastro
Davide Belcastro
Rosario Bitonti
Twisted Mario
Salvatore Cofone
Giuseppe Costante
Constant Rose
Luisa Gatto
Antonio Lopetrone
Antonio Lucente
Anna Mazzei
Gianni Meluso
Andrea Romano
Caterina Emanuela Silletta
Filomena Silletta
Forza Italia
Marco Gentile
Angela Angotti
Stefania Barberio
Giovanni Guarasci
Maria Antonia Iaconis
Salvatore Iaquinta
Sergio Lopez
Simona Marazita
Pasquale Martino
Giusy Migliarese Caputi
Paolo Mosca
Pina Perri
Martina Pisanelli
Giuseppina Scalise
Valentina Secreti
Noemi Succurro
Ambrogio Mayor
Francesco Fragale
Lucia Nigro
Francesco Lico
Francesca Benincasa
Giuliana DiPierro
Luigi Guarasci
Serafina Talarico
Loredana Scarcelli
Giuseppina De Santo
Maria Ferise
Domenico Spadafora
Giuseppe Olivito Spadafora
Rosa Ambrosio
Piersaverio Greco
Rosa Mazza
Luigi Bibiani
The list in support of Giuseppe Belcastro
Marta Astorino
Fernanda Bilanzuoli
Rossella Bonasso
Antonio Caputo
Stefano Gagliardi
Patrizia Gentile
Francesca Levato
Maria Gabriella Militerno
Giovambattista Mosca
Francesco Pulice
Maria Rossella Scerbo
Giovanni Scigliano
Paolo Spina Iaconis
Pierluigi Talarico
Pio Giovanni Veltri
Rosa Iuliano
The list in support of Antonio Barile
Barrel Mayor
Francesco Astorino
Patrizia Barbuto
Giovambattista Benincasa
Antonio Bitonti
Serafina Bitonti
Giovanna Francesca Caruso
Francesco Foglia
Bruno Iaconis
Luana Latti
Lopetrone brand
Salvatore Mirarchi
Enzo Sellaro
Angela Silletta
Francesca Silletta
Vincenzo Tiano
Giovanni Urso
The lists in support of Luigi Candalise
Democratic Party
Domenico Lacava
Doina-Mirila Amariei
Salvatore Lopez
Lacramiora Florentina Bucinschi
Giovanni Mauro
Maria Foglia
Ivan Oliviero (known as Torinese)
Mariangela Granato
Salvatore Tassone
Costanza Ioria
Maria Barberio
Enea Vanzanella
Spontaneously – Left towards San Giovanni in Fiore
Barbara Aiello
Antonio Candalise
Adriano D’Amico
Antonio Dori
Rosa Iaquinta
Giovanni Mele
Anna Miliana
Francesco Saverio Oliverio
Angelica Perrone
Francesco Scarcelli
Francesco Giovanni Secreti
Rita Succurro
Alessio Talerico
Roberto Veltri
Rossana Veltri
Giovanna Viola
The list in support of Stefania Fratto
Activate Pensioners
Gaetano Andali
Serafina Audia
Vincenzo Ambrosio
Beniamina Guzzo
Ennio Musardo Gracchus
Filomena Frontera
Rosetta Cozza
Anna Milan
Giovanna Oliverio
Rosanna Lopez
Giovanna Oliverio
Giuseppe Secreti
Francesco Barberio
Giancarlo Tridico
Teresa Cimino
Filomena Carmela Loria
Women and rights
Marilise Succurro
Angela Veltri
Teresa Ambrosio
Gianfranca Iaquinta
Anna Talarico
Antonietta De Luca
Maria Oliverio
Lucrezia Sorrento
Giovanna Tucci
Porro Maria Antonella
Pasquale Gallo
Maurizio Salvatore Audia
Saverio Cimino
Giuseppe Audia
Nicola Diano
Piero Fraschini
Stefania Fratto Mayor
Manuela Cimino
Raffaella Sibio
Maria Foglia
Pietro Filippo Pignanelli
Saint Chiarello
Vittoria De Luca
Luciano D’Andrea
Paolo Spina
Thomas Morina
Mirella Belcastro
Costanza Bitonti
Giovanni Spataro
Barbara Astorino
Filomena Palmieri
Iolanda Marra
Rosa Maria Bitonti
Future Youth
Antonio Caligiuri
Belcastro Luigia Francesca
Carmen Fire
Marianna Fulvi
Michela Mancina
Rosellina Napolitano
Michela Spadafora
Beloved Cat
It will be Iaquinta
Benincasa Margherita
Debora Greco
Giovambattista Barberio
Paul That
Francesco Brundo
Gallo Antonio
Agostino Marra