Cosmo Maciocia

Cosmo Maciocia
Borough mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal City Counciller
In office 2005–2009
Succeeded by	Joe Magri
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Viger
In office 1981–2001
Preceded by	District was established in 1980
Succeeded by	Anna Mancuso
Personal details
Born	(1942-02-02) February 2, 1942 Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy
Political party	Liberal Union Montréal

Cosmo Maciocia (born February 2, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

Background

He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy on February 2, 1942 and arrived in Canada in 1964.

City Councillor in Saint-Léonard

He was a City Councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.

Member of the legislature

He successfully ran as a Liberal candidate to the provincial legislature for the district of Viger in 1981. He was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.

He was Parliamentary Assistant from 1985 to 1994.

Back in City Politics

In the wake of the province-wide Municipal Merger of 2001, gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (Template:Lang-fr) in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montreal.

In 2005, he was elected as Borough Mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles-Montréal-Est, and retained his position as mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles following the 2006 demerger of Montréal-Est.

Maciocia is a Member of Montreal's Executive Committee.

He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.