Trantalis used to be on the City Commision representing District 2 for eight years before becoming Fort Lauderdale’s mayor. He also served as vice mayor in 2005-2006 and again from 2016-2017. Trantalis was first elected as mayor of Fort Lauderdale in 2018 and won the mayoral election again in November 2020, according to his bio posted on his office’s website. Who is Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis? The incident prompted the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Dean Trantalis, to brand the incident as a “terrorist attack,” but he was later criticized for those comments. A TRUCK “accidentally” plowing into a crowd at a Pride Parade in Florida on June 20, 2021, according to cops.
