Antonella Moro Bundu (born 4 December 1969) is an Italian politician and activist. She served as a city council member of Florence from 2019 to 2024, leading the left opposition "Sinistra Progetto Comune" group.https://amministrazionetrasparente.comune.fi.it/antonella-moro-bundu
In 2019 she ran for the post of Mayor of Florence, making her the first black woman to run for mayor of a major Italian city.Sophie Gorman, Antonella Bundu: The first black woman to run for mayor of a major Italian city, France 24, 26 June 2019. She also ran for President of Tuscany in the 2025 Tuscan regional election receiving 5% of the total votes.https://www.policymakermag.it/italia/regionali-toscana-chi-sono-i-candidati-in-pole/
Biography Antonella Bundu was born in Florence in 1969,Sono Antonella Bundu: una donna nera, fiorentina e di sinistra the daughter of a Florentine mother and a Sierra Leonean father. In the late 1980s she studied in Liverpool, which she recalls as a "politically charged city" after the Toxteth riots: "I was studying black history in the city's libraries, and participated actively in the neightbourhood's protests."Lorenzo Tondo, Resisting the right: the woman who is a beacon of hope in Salvini's Italy, The Guardian, 19 April 2019. Accessed 24 July 2020.
An ex-DJ and activist for Oxfam, Bundu was one of the first on the scene at the 2018 Florence shooting of the Senegalese immigrant Idy Diene. She took part in the anti-racist protests which followed his death, and after making a speech at the Alfieri Theatre was invited to run for mayor on behalf of a radical-left coalition including Power to the People and the Communist Refoundation Party. In the 2019 Mayoral election, she received 14,016 votes (7.29%).Dettaglio scrutini In October 2025, she received the honorary member card of Movimento RadicalSocialista.
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