Pietro Fontanini | |
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Mayor of Udine | |
In office 14 May 2018 –18 April 2023 | |
Preceded by | Furio Honsell |
Succeeded by | Alberto Felice De Toni |
President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia | |
In office 3 August 1993 –11 January 1994 | |
Preceded by | Vinicio Turello |
Succeeded by | Renzo Travanut |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 9 May 1996 –27 April 2006 | |
Member of the Senate | |
In office 15 April 1994 –9 May 1996 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Udine,Italy | 23 September 1952
Political party | Lega Nord |
Alma mater | University of Trieste |
Occupation | Teacher,politician |
Pietro Fontanini (born 23 September 1952) is an Italian politician from the Lega Nord,former mayor of Udine and former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Graduated in Sociology,Fontanini joined the Lega Nord after having spent a few years in the Italian Communist Party in Friuli. Once elected to the regional council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia,Fontanini is appointed President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia for the first five months of the legislature. [1]
He left his seat in the regional council in order to run for the Senate at the 1994 general election,resulting in his election. [2] He is later elected to the Chamber of Deputies at the 1996 [3] and the 2001 general election.
In 1995,Fontanini is elected Mayor of Campoformido,in the province of Udine,and held the seat for two consecutive terms until 2004. [1]
In 2008,he is elected President of the province of Udine, [4] being later re-elected in 2013. [5] He left the office a few months before the end of his second term in order to run for the office of Mayor of Udine at the 2018 local election: [6] Fontanini is elected at the runoff. [7]
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