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Place of Birth: Padua, Veneto, Italy
About Massimo Bitonci
- Massimo Bitonci (born 24 June 1965, in Padua) is an Italian Venetist politician.
- He is a member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, which he has served as national president since 2016. In 1993, he joined Lega Nord and was deputy mayor of Cittadella from 1994 to 2002.
- 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.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.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% to 24.1% in two years, and especially in Cittadella, where the party quadrupled its score from 11.6% to 42.2%.In the 2013 general election Bitonci was elected to the Senate, where he was appointed floor leader of his party. In June 2014 Bitonci was elected mayor of Padua (31.4% in the first round, 53.5% in the run-off).
- However, in November 2016, having lost the support of the majority of the municipal council, he was dismissed as mayor and the council was subsequently dissolved.
- In June 2017 Bitonci came first in the first round of the municipal election with 40.3%, but was finally defeated by Sergio Giordani, a left-leaning independent, 48.2% to 51.8% in the run-off.
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