- Sammy Forcillo
Savino "Sammy" Forcillo is a Canadian politician and a
City Council lor inMontreal ,Quebec .Background
He has Italian ancestry and has a degree from the "École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)".
Civic Party
He was a member of
Jean Drapeau 's Civic Party. He was elected to Montreal'sCity Council in 1978 in Saint-Jacques, a district with a significant amount ofgay residents. He was re-elected in 1982, but was defeated by RCM candidate Raymond Blain in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won aby-election in the same district.Vision Montreal
When the Civic Party ceased to exist and merged with
Jérôme Choquette 's "Parti des Montréalais (Montrealers’ Party)", Forcillo decided to supportPierre Bourque and joinVision Montreal . He was re-elected in 1994 and became Deputy Chairman of Montreal Executive Committee.Team Montreal
In 1997 he was asked to resign from the Executive Committee. He left
Vision Montreal and sat as an Independent, but refused to leave the Executive Committee.In 1998 he first announced that he would support
Jacques Duchesneau for Mayor, but eventually changed his mind. He ended up being re-elected as a candidate forJean Doré 's "Équipe Montréal (Team Montreal)".Union Montreal
In 2000 Forcillo sat again as an Independent and joined
Gérald Tremblay 's "Montreal Island Citizens Union" (French: "Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal or UCIM"). The party is now know as "Union Montreal".He lost against
Vision Montreal 's candidateRobert Laramée in 2001, but was re-elected in 2005 representing the merged district of Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques.He has been a Member of Montreal's Executive Committee since then. [ [http://www.enap.uquebec.ca/enap/fr/bureau_diplomes.aspx?sortcode=1.22.23.27 Bureau des diplômés, École nationale d'administration publique] ]
On June 25, 2008, Tremblay named Forcillo as the Executive Member responsible for the city's finances following a re-organization that was made necessary following the resignation of the president of the Executive Council,
Frank Zampino . [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080625/CPACTUALITES/80625092/6730/CPACTUALITES]Footnotes
ee also
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Vision Montreal Crisis, 1997
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