Mario Maiolo was the Vice-President of the province of Cosenza, Italy. Maiolo is chairman of the Committee on Regional Development Plan. He was elected to the Regional Council on April 4, 2005. He belongs to the center-left Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, which later merged with the Democratic Party. He was born in Cosenza in 1963.
Cosenza is a city in the Calabria region of Southern Italy. The municipal population is of around 70,000, but the urban area counts over 268,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a population of around 735,000. The demonym of Cosenza is cosentino in Italian and Cosentian in English.
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, commonly known simply as The Daisy, was a centrist political party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties: the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal. The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition, within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote.
He is an engineer and university professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Calabria. He is also the author of numerous scientific publications in the field of hydraulic construction and environmental engineering.
The University of Calabria is a state-run university in Italy. Located in Arcavacata, a hamlet of Rende in the Province of Cosenza, the university was founded in 1972. Among its founders there were Beniamino Andreatta, Giorgio Gagliani, Pietro Bucci and Paolo Sylos Labini. It currently has about 35,000 students, 800 teaching and research staff and about 700 administrative staff.
As a young boy began his political activism within the Catholic student movement. Then, he joined the Christian Democrats, and at its dissolution, the Italian People's Party and held the post of first secretary of the city of Cosenza.
The Italian People's Party was a Christian-democratic, centrist, Christian-leftist political party in Italy. The party was a member of the European People's Party (EPP).
From 1995 to 2004, he served as Vice President of the Province of Cosenza. Since 19 September 2006, he has been an adviser to national and international programming.
He is married and father of two children.
