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Armando Pagella (Castelnuovo Scrivia, 1º January 1926 – Novi Ligure, 13 December 2006) was an Italian partisan, trade unionist and politician. He was for many years Mayor of the city of Novi Ligure (Italy). He joined the Resistance and fought in the region of Cuneo. After World War II, he worked as a trade unionist in Tortona and in Novi Ligure. From 1963, just after the suddet death of the Mayor Carlo Acquistapace, to 1985 he was the Mayor of Novi Ligure. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party from 1945 and then joined the Democratic Party of the Left and the Left Winging Democrats.