Marina Venti is a Kaskivian politician who served as Mayor of Ateneo from 2017 to 2024 and now sits on the Ateneo city council as a Green-Left Coalition for Progress (GLCP) councillor. She is not the current mayor — that office returned to her mentor Sigismondo Guerrero when he won the 2024 mayoral election after seven years in federal parliament.
Venti had been Guerrero’s deputy through the ASP-to-GLCP merger and was his endorsed successor when he retired from the mayoralty in 2017. Her single term maintained the city’s eco-socialist consensus; when Guerrero came home in 2024, she stood down from the executive and remained in municipal politics as a backbench councillor rather than challenge him.
2017 election
Guerrero’s retirement opened the first mayoral vacancy in eighteen years. Venti ran with GLCP backing as national conservative governments under Elena Fiori collapsed. Youth and student turnout delivered 45.3% against a fractured centre-left field and a penalised KCA — confirming Ateneo as a GLCP fortress even when the party struggled elsewhere in Kaskiv.
Mayoral tenure (2017–2024)
Venti continued Guerrero’s climate, transit, and participatory-budgeting frameworks without the founder’s eccentric star power. She faced SDP pressure from academic candidates such as Prof. Lorenzo Fabbri (32.1% in 2017) and aligned municipal policy with Icilio Lana’s continental GLCP project. Historians treat her mayoralty as a caretaker interregnum: competent stewardship while Guerrero led the party nationally from 2022 and prepared his return.
City council (2024–Present)
After Guerrero’s 47.8% victory in 2024, Venti accepted a council seat rather than retire from municipal politics. She votes with the GLCP bloc on planning and housing matters and occasionally mediates between Guerrero’s maximalist environmental amendments and councillors wary of further pedestrianisation. She has not indicated plans to contest the mayoralty again while Guerrero remains in office.
Legacy
Venti proved that Ateneo’s Green-Left machine could survive a change of face — but also that the city still belongs, electorally, to Guerrero. Her succession and peaceful handback remain the model for generational transition within the GLCP’s Ateneo apparatus.