Maurizio Conte [SEP] country of citizenship
Maurizio Conte
Maurizio Conte (born 22 September 1964 in San Martino di Lupari) is a Venetist politician from Veneto, Italy.
A member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord since 1993, Conte was first elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 2000. From 2001 to 2010 Conte was also secretary of the party for the Province of Padua. Re-elected for a third term to the Council in 2010, he was appointed regional minister of Environment in Zaia I Government.
In 2015 Conte left Liga Veneta in
to ditch his think tank, Let's Rebuild the Country. Consequently, Tosi decided to challenge Zaia and run for president.
Besides Baggio and Toscani, between March and April four more regional councillors of Liga Veneta (Daniele Stival, regional minister of Venetian Identity, and Giuseppe Stoppato, who formed, along with former Democrat Diego Bottacin, a group named "Toward North–Venetian People", Maurizio Conte, regional minister of the Environment, and Andrea Bassi), left the party in order to follow Tosi, along