Giancarlo Gentilini, the former “Sheriff” mayor of Treviso died

The former mayor of Treviso died this afternoon, Thursday 24 April 2025 Giancarlo Gentilinifor two consecutive mandates at the helm of the municipal administration between 1994 and 2003 and became The symbol of the “mayors-sheriffs” of the Northern Leaguecoming to conquer the titles of the foreign press on several occasions.

“Giancarlo Gentilini, our genty, went on. We lose a reference, a man who wrote, changed, marked the history of our Treviso and the figure of the mayor in Italy. Genty embodied passion, concreteness, treviso”, he wrote the first citizen on his social profiles: “We lose a model, an example, an inspiration, the polar star for values ​​and skills. He will miss his advice, his reports, he will miss him. So much. Thanks of the whole genty, mayor of Treviso forever”.

Giancarlo Gentilini was elected Mayor of Treviso for the first time in 1994 And in a few months he managed to make himself known throughout Italy with the name of “sheriff” for his way of administering the city in the name of hard punch, especially towards immigration. Despite the criticisms and protests often unleashed by his declarations, Gentilini was re -elected in 1998beating the candidate of the center -left Domenico Luciani in the ballot.

“He went down in history with the nickname of ‘sheriff’ but, in his case, the term was very reductive,” said the president of the Veneto region Luca Zaia In remembering Gentilini “,” A man of the institutions even before a politician, a great public administrator “:” He was a man who in the years of the end of the first republic has been able to grasp and intercept the feelings of the people, of what he called ‘my people’, and thanks to this dowry as few others he was able to give a response of good government to a city and become a model for generations of mayors in many parts of Italy “.

After the conclusion of the second term of mayor of Treviso, Gentilini remained in the city administration for the next ten yearsfrom 2003 to 2013, as deputy mayor of the city. In 2013 he re -established himself as mayor of Treviso, but he was unable to overcome the center -left candidate at the ballot, and in 2018 he preferred support Mario Conte’s candidacythe current first citizen of Treviso.