Marco Marcucci

After earning his high school diploma, he joined the Italian Communist Party and served as secretary of the PCI’s provincial federation in Lucca from 1975 to 1979.^[4] In 1983, he served as regional councilor for the environment for the Tuscany region, and in 1990 he was elected president of the region. In 1991, he joined the Democratic Party of the Left and held the positions of both regional councilor for the environment and president of the Tuscany Region.

On October 26, 1992, in Florence, Marcucci—who at the time of the events was the regional councilor for the environment and, on that date, the regional president—was arrested and taken to the Sollicciano prison in connection with the Bilancino Dam scandal. He was replaced as regional president by Vannino Chiti. He was definitively acquitted of this charge in the final appeal in 1999 because the charges were unfounded.^[5]

He was subsequently appointed president of the Regional Institute for Economic Planning of Tuscany and also collaborated with the Research Department of the CEIS in Lucca, focusing in particular on educational programs aimed at overcoming drug addiction.

In 1998, as the leader of a Centre-left politics, he was elected mayor of Viareggio. In 2003, he was re-elected mayor, but without the support of Communist Refoundation Party. His term in office ended in 2008.