Biography
Stefani was born in Camposampiero,Padua province. He was active in politics during secondary school at the Isaac Newton Scientific High School in Camposampiero,where he graduated with top marks in 2011. A few months later he became provincial coordinator in Padua for his party’s youth movement and regional coordinator for the university movement. In December 2017 he graduated in law from the University of Padua with honours,with a thesis in canon law and legal history titled L'adozione dello strumento codiciale nell'ordinamento canonico. He has authored academic publications in ecclesiastical and canon law. [5] [6]
Election to the Chamber
In the 2018 general election he stood for the Chamber of Deputies in the single-member constituency Veneto 2 –03 (Vigonza),backed by the centre-right coalition,and was elected with 52.28% of the vote,ahead of the Five Star Movement candidate Alberto Artoni (24.98%) and the centre-left candidate Anna Zanetti (16.49%). [7] In the XVIII legislature he served as secretary of the Committee for Legislation,chaired the opinions subcommittee and sat on the 1st Committee (Constitutional Affairs). He was first signatory of a bill to protect student family caregivers and filed parliamentary questions regarding cyberbullying and misogynistic chat groups on Telegram. [8] [9] [10]
Mayor of Borgoricco
In the 2019 local elections in Veneto,he was elected mayor of Borgoricco with 51.41% of the vote,becoming one of the youngest mayors in Italy and the youngest to hold both mayoral and parliamentary office at the same time. On 27 November 2019 he joined the council of ANCI Veneto. During the COVID-19 emergency he promoted a “mayors’cordon”to reopen hairdressers,beauty salons,bars and restaurants safely and to reactivate nursery services. He is a member of AUTISMO Onlus and co-authored a letter to the prime minister seeking time-slot access to equipped public parks for families with autistic children. He donated his entire mayoral allowance for the term to the municipal budget,and in the 8–9 June 2024 elections his civic list won 77% of the vote;as a council candidate he obtained the highest personal preference total in Veneto. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
Liga Veneta and federal deputy secretary
After serving as commissioner of the Lega in Venice and briefly in Padua,on 23 December 2020 he was appointed regional commissioner for the party in Veneto by federal secretary Matteo Salvini. [18] [19] In the 2022 snap election he was re-elected in the single-member constituency Veneto 2 –01 (Rovigo) with 60.56% of the vote;the main centre-left opponent,Alberto Lucchin,polled 20.76%. [20] [21] On 11 January 2024 he tabled a bill as first signatory to raise the cap on regional presidents’terms from two to three,and he also promoted a proposal to restore the Provinces as first-level entities by repealing the Delrio law. [22] [23] [24]
On 24 June 2023 he was elected secretary of Liga Veneta by the regional congress in Padua with 64% of delegates’votes,becoming the youngest secretary in the organisation’s forty-year history. [25] [26] Since 1 August 2023 he has chaired the bicameral committee for implementing fiscal federalism. [27] On 12 September 2024 he was appointed federal deputy secretary of the Lega;he is reported as the youngest person to hold the post. [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
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