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Salvo Pogliese
Salvo Pogliese
Mayor of Catania
	In office; 18 June 2018 – 28 July 2022
Preceded by	Enzo Bianco
Succeeded by	Enrico Trantino
Member of the Senate
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 13 October 2022
Constituency	Sicily
Member of the European Parliament
	In office; 1 July 2014 – 14 July 2018
Constituency	Italian Islands
Personal details
Born	3 March 1972 (age 52); Catania, Italy
Political party	MSI (till 1995); AN (1995-2009); PdL (2009-2013); FI (2013-2019); FdI (since 2019)
Alma mater	University of Catania
Occupation	Chartered accountant, politician

Salvatore Domenico Antonio Pogliese (born 3 March 1972) is an Italian politician, Mayor of Catania from 2018 to 2022.

Biography

Pogliese graduated in Economy at the University of Catania and has been a chartered accountant. He entered in politics when he was very young, beginning his political career in the Youth Front, the youth organization of the Italian Social Movement, of which Pogliese has been provincial secretary in Catania. With the end of the MSI and the birth of National Alliance, Pogliese became the regional secretary of Youth Action, the youth organization of Gianfranco Fini's party in Sicily.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997 he was elected to the City Council of Catania and in 2003 he was elected to the Provincial Council, working as assessor in the junta led by Raffaele Lombardo.^[1] He is elected to the Sicilian Regional Assembly in the regional elections of 2006 with National Alliance and in the regional elections of 2008 with The People of Freedom. Re-elected in the regional elections of 2012, he became vice-president of the Sicilian Regional Assembly.^[2]

In February 2018, Pogliese announced his intention to run for Mayor of Catania, receiving support from his own party and the whole centre-right coalition and from President of Sicily Nello Musumeci.^[3] In June 2018, Pogliese is elected Mayor, defeating his incumbent predecessor Enzo Bianco.^[4]