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He was a member of [[Jean Drapeau]]'s [[Civic Party of Montreal|Civic Party]]. He was elected to Montreal's [[City Council]] in 1978 in Saint-Jacques, a district with a significant amount of [[gay]] residents. He was re-elected in 1982, but was defeated by RCM candidate Raymond Blain<ref>[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Blain]</ref> in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won a [[by-election]] in the same district. |
He was a member of [[Jean Drapeau]]'s [[Civic Party of Montreal|Civic Party]]. He was elected to Montreal's [[City Council]] in 1978 in Saint-Jacques, a district with a significant amount of [[gay]] residents. He was re-elected in 1982, but was defeated by RCM candidate Raymond Blain<ref>[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Blain Raymond Blain's Wikipédia page in French]</ref> in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won a [[by-election]] in the same district. |
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==Vision Montreal== |
==Vision Montreal== |
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Revision as of 17:37, 13 December 2009
Savino "Sammy" Forcillo is a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, 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's City Council in 1978 in Saint-Jacques, a district with a significant amount of gay residents. He was re-elected in 1982, but was defeated by RCM candidate Raymond Blain[1] in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won a by-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 support Pierre Bourque and join Vision 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 for Jean 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 (Template:Lang-fr). The party is now know as Union Montréal.
He lost against Vision Montreal's candidate Robert 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. [2]
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. [1]
He ran again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election for Union Montréal in the adjacent district of Peter-McGill.