Renato Accorinti

{{short description|Italian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Renato Accorinti

|image = Renato Accorinti con la bandiera della pace.jpg

|caption =

|office = Mayor of Messina

|term_start = 25 June 2013

|term_end = 26 June 2018{{Cite web|url=https://amministratori.interno.gov.it/amministratori/ServletNomeReg3?campo1=1195451&campo2=a|title=Renato Accorinti|website=Ministry of the Interior of Italy|date=23 February 2017 |language=it|access-date=15 September 2020}}

|predecessor = Giuseppe Buzzanca

|successor = Cateno De Luca

|office2 = Metropolitan mayor of Messina

|term_start2 = 10 June 2016

|term_end2 = 26 June 2018

|predecessor2 = Office established

|successor2 = Cateno De Luca

|birth_name =

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|3|30|df=y}}

|birth_place = Messina, Sicily, Italy

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Independent (left-wing)

|otherparty =

|spouse =

|children =

|alma_mater = University of Palermo

|profession = Activist, teacher

}}

Renato Accorinti (born 30 March 1954, in Messina) is an Italian politician and activist.

Non-violent activist, pacifist and environmentalist involved in the social struggles against the Mafia in Sicily and corruption, he ran for Mayor of Messina as an independent at the 2013 municipal elections.{{cite news|url=http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news//51675/Accorinti-stasera--l-insediamento.html|title=Accorinti stasera l'insediamento|publisher=Gazzetta del Sud|language=it|accessdate=15 September 2020}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.tempostretto.it/news/ufficialmente-sindaco-maglietta-ponte-fascia-tricolore-piedi-nudi-accorinti-insedia-palazzo-zanca.html|title=Maglietta "No Ponte", fascia tricolore e piedi nudi: Accorinti si insedia a Palazzo Zanca|publisher=Tempo Stretto|language=it|accessdate=15 September 2020}} He was elected and took office on 25 June 2013.{{Cite news|publisher=Il manifesto|author=Federico Scarcella|title=Grillo torna in Sicilia, ma non trova il granaio|date=7 June 2013|page=37|language=it|accessdate=15 September 2020|url=http://www.ilmanifesto.it/attualita/notizie/mricN/9532/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613031012/http://www.ilmanifesto.it/attualita/notizie/mricN/9532/|archive-date=2013-06-13}}{{Cite news|author=Alessandra Ziniti|url=http://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/06/24/news/chi_accorinti_il_prof-santone_che_ha_conquistato_messina-61770470/?ref=HRER3-1|title=Chi è Accorinti, il prof-santone che ha conquistato Messina|publisher=la Repubblica|date=24 June 2013|language=it|accessdate=15 September 2020}}

He also served as the first Metropolitan mayor of Messina from June 2016 to June 2018.{{Cite news|url=http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/messina/281638/accorinti-torna-sindaco-metropolitano.html|title=Accorinti torna sindaco metropolitano|publisher=Gazzetta del Sud|language=it|accessdate=15 September 2020}}