Vittorio Capparelli
| Vittorio Capparelli | |
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| Member of the Montreal Executive Committee with responsibility for income security and social issues | |
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In office 1994–1996 |
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| Montreal City Councillor for the François-Perrault ward | |
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In office 1990–1998 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Venneri |
| Succeeded by | Frank Venneri |
| Montreal City Councillor for the Gabriel-Sagard ward | |
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In office 1986–1990 |
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| Preceded by | Marc Beaudoin |
| Succeeded by | ward eliminated |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Italy |
Vittorio Capparelli is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1998 and was a member of the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) from 1994 to 1996.
Capparelli was born in Italy and moved to Canada in 1967. He was initially a lathe operator and later became the administrator of Patronat INCA, a group providing services for Quebec workers of Italian origin.
Capparelli first ran for city council in 1982 municipal election as a candidate of the progressive Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) and finished second to Civic Party incumbent George Savoidakis in the Jean-Talon ward. He ran a second time in 1986 and defeated Civic Party incumbent Marc Beaudoin in the Gabriel-Sagard ward. The MCM won a landslide victory in this election under mayoral candidate Jean Doré, and Capparelli served as a backbench supporter of Doré's administration for the next four years. He was re-elected in the 1990 election in the redistributed ward of François-Perrault over fellow incumbent Frank Venneri, a former MCM member who had joined the opposition Municipal Party.
Capparelli became increasingly critical of Doré's administration in the early 1990s. In November 1991, he was the only MCM councillor to support an opposition initiative that would have diverted money from paving de la Commune Street in Old Montreal to improving the state of the city's playgrounds. He also voiced objections about the MCM's 1991 budget, and he openly criticized his party in the media several times in early 1992. Other MCM councillors were also critical of the party's direction in the same period.
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