Roberto Cota (born 13 July 1968 in

Novara Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It i ...

) is an Italian politician, President of Piedmont from 2010 to 2014. After a degree in

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, Cota joined the party in 1990. In 2000 he was elected to the

Regional Council of Piedmont The Regional Council of Piedmont (''Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte'') is the legislative assembly of Piedmont. It was first elected in 1970, when the ordinary regions were instituted, on the basis of the Constitution of Italy of 1948. Compo ...

and was President of it until 2005. In 2001 he was elected regional secretary of Lega Nord Piemont. After having served as Under-Secretary of Productive Activities in

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(since the end of December 2004) and later in

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, he was first elected to the

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in 2006. Re-elected in 2008, he was elected floor leader of Lega Nord in the Chamber. On 30 March 2010 he was elected President of the

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Region. On 17 June 2010 he resigned from Italian Chamber of Deputies. His election as president of the Piedmont was canceled on 11 February 2014.

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