UNESCO peace prize winner Giusi
Nicolini is no longer the mayor of the southern Italian island
of Lampedusa.
Lampedusa is a stepping-stone island, nearer Africa than
Sicily, where most of the asylum seekers who make the desperate
passage across the Mediterranean from Libya land.
Earlier this year Nicolini received UNESCO's Houphouet-Boigny
peace prize for her "great humanity and constant commitment in
the management of the refugee crisis and their integration after
the arrival of thousands of refugees on the coasts of Lampedusa
and elsewhere in Italy".
But the outgoing mayor, a member of Premier Paolo Gentiloni's
centre-left Democratic Party, came only third in Sunday's local
elections on the island.
Left-winger Totò Martello, a former mayor, won the election
followed by Filippo Mannino of the anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S).
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