Giorgio Panto (1 October 1941 – 26 November 2006) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. Panto was born at

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, in the

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. After being a long-time supporter of the

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–

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, in 2004 he founded a new Venetist and fiscal federalist party called North-East Project (''Progetto NordEst'', PNE), in which he welcomed many former ''Leghisti'' as Ettore Beggiato,

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and Diego Cancian. It was not the first time that Panto run for the post of President of the Region: in fact, in the 1995 regional election Panto won 3.7%, under the banner of New Italy and

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. In the

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, he won 6.0% of the vote (16.1% in the stronghold of

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) as candidate for President of the Region, coming third after

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(

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) and Massimo Carraro ( The Union). The PNE list took the 5.4%, electing two regional deputies. In 2006 provincial elections in Treviso, he came third with the 10.3%, after Leonardo Muraro (Liga Veneta-Lega Nord/House of Freedoms) and Lorenzo Biagi ( DL/The Union), while the PNE list scored 10.8%. He was also involved in the entrepreneurs' trade union European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs (LIFE), founded by Fabio Padovan. He died in Venice in a helicopter accident on 26 November 2006.

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