Sammy Forcillo

Savino "Sammy" Forcillo is a retired Canadian politician and a former mayor of Ville-Marie borough in Montreal, Quebec.

He has Italian ancestry and has a degree from the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP).

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 in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won a by-election in the same district.

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.

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).

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 known as Union Montréal).

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