Massimo Bitonci
Massimo Bitonci | |
|---|---|
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| Mayor of Padua | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 2013–2014 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 2008–2013 | |
| Mayor of Cittadella | |
| In office 2002–2012 | |
| Deouty Mayor of Cittadella | |
| In office 1994–2002 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 24, 1965 Padua |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Liga Veneta–Lega Nord (1993–1998, 200?–present) Liga Veneta Repubblica (1998–200?) |
Massimo Bitonci (born 24 June 1965, in Padua) is an Italian Venetist politician. He is a member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord.
In 1993, he joined Lega Nord and was deputy mayor of Cittadella from 1994 to 2002.[1] During his second term he followed mayor Lucio Facco into Liga Veneta Repubblica (LVR). With the support of LVR he ran for mayor in 2002 and was elected with 50.9% of the vote in a run-off, defeating Liga Veneta in one of its traditional strongholds.[2]
In 2007 he was re-elected mayor with the 56.5% of the vote in the first round. In that occasion he was supported by a regionalist front composed of Liga Veneta, LVR and some civic lists, which won altogether 51.7% of the vote.[3]
In the 2008 general election Bitonci was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where he sat in the parliamentary group of Lega Nord. He trailed the electoral result of the party in the Province of Padua, where Lega Nord passed from 7.7%[4] to 24.1%[5] in two years, and especially in Cittadella, where the party quadrupled its score from 11.6%[6] to 42.2%.[7]
In the 2013 general election Bitonci was elected to the Senate, where he was appointed floor leader of his party.
In June 2014 he was elected mayor of Padua with 53.5% of the vote.[8]