Political career
Election to the Chamber of Deputies
In December 2012,Rotta participated in the Democratic Party's parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2013 general election,receiving 2,409 votes,the highest number for a female candidate in Verona. [3] She was subsequently elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the Veneto 1 constituency,placed 13th on the Democratic Party list. During the 17th legislature,she was a member of the 9th Committee on Transport,Posts and Telecommunications and the 11th Committee on Public and Private Employment. [4]
Role in party communications
During the 2013 Democratic Party leadership primaries,she supported the motion of Matteo Renzi,then mayor of Florence,who won with 67.55% of the vote. Rotta joined the party's National Directorate following his victory. On 16 September 2014,Renzi appointed her Head of Communications in the party's national secretariat. [2] [5] [6] [7]
She supported Renzi again in the 2017 leadership primaries,serving on the national coordination team for his campaign,which won nearly 70% of the vote. [8] [9] She remained a member of the National Directorate but was not reappointed to the national secretariat. [10] [11] [12]
Re-election and parliamentary roles
In the 2018 general election,Rotta was a candidate for the Democratic Party in both the single-member district Veneto 2 - 09 (Verona),where she received 25.62% of the vote and lost to center-right candidate Vito Comencini (Lega),and the multi-member district Tuscany - 04,where she was elected. [13] During the 18th legislature,she served as deputy group leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber from 18 April 2018 to 8 April 2021. She was a member of the 14th Committee on EU Policies,the 6th Committee on Finance (substituting for undersecretary Roberto Morassut),and served as President of the 8th Committee on Environment,Territory and Public Works from 29 July 2020. [14]
In the 2019 Democratic Party primaries,she supported the candidacy of former agriculture minister Maurizio Martina,who represented the Renzi-aligned wing of the party and finished second with 22% of the vote,behind Nicola Zingaretti (66%). [15] Rotta subsequently joined the centrist reformist faction "Base Riformista," led by Lorenzo Guerini and Luca Lotti. [16]
