13 Facts About Susanna Ceccardi

Susanna Ceccardi was born on 19 March 1987 and is an Italian politician.

Susanna Ceccardi served as mayor of Cascina from June 2016 to June 2019.

Susanna Ceccardi's family was left-wing but her parents moved their vote to the Northern League in the 1990s.

Susanna Ceccardi graduated at classical high school and she later enrolled at Law School at the University of Pisa, where she began her political activity as student representative.

Susanna Ceccardi was elected at the municipal council of Cascina in 2011 and she participated as a regular guest in the political talk show Announo on the national channel LA7.

Susanna Ceccardi was a candidate for the 2015 Tuscan regional election but did not get a council seat.

Susanna Ceccardi was the only member of Lega Nord elected mayor in the whole region before Siena, Pisa and Massa followed suit in the June 2018 local elections.

Susanna Ceccardi's role was considered crucial for the elections in the local constituencies of her assessors Edoardo Ziello and Rosellina Sbrana in March 2018 to the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, respectively, and for the victory of the right-wing candidate Michele Conti at the mayoral election in the bigger neighboring comune of Pisa a few months laters in the 2018 Italian local elections.

Susanna Ceccardi stated she undertook the initiative after not receiving specific reply from the Italian authorities.

In March 2020, Susanna Ceccardi was proposed as candidate for the center-right coalition to the 2020 Tuscan regional election.

Susanna Ceccardi has been described as an example of younger Italian politicians supporting a more critical view of the European Union especially compared with the older right-wing officeholders of the previous decades.

Susanna Ceccardi opposes the construction of mosques and, in exchange for the celebration of the Eid al-Fitr in a public space by the local Senegalese community, she required that they "firmly condemned" all acts of violence induced by Islamic fundamentalism.

Susanna Ceccardi expressed the possibility to name her future daughter Kinzica after Kinzica de' Sismondi, a medieval heroine who according to the legend it is said to have defended the town of Pisa from the invasion of the Saracens.