Giuseppe Pan (born 5 March 1962 in

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) is a Venetist politician from

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. A member of

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–

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, Pan started to be involved in municipal politics in his hometown,

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. In 1998, when the party split over Venetism and

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, he followed mayor Lucio Facco and deputy mayor

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into

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. From 2002 to 2012, Pan served as deputy mayor of Cittadella, under Bitonci, and they both re-joined Liga Veneta. In 2012 Pan, whose bid was supported only by Liga Veneta, finally succeeded to Bitonci as mayor. As mayor, Pan, a member of the Venetist faction of Bitonci, Roberto Marcato and

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, was an outspoken supporter of the independence of Veneto and, as such, he sketched out his bid for the

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in the 2015 regional election, in which he was controversially excluded from the council, for technical reasons. Despite this, Pan, who looked a shoo-in to become the party's floor leader, was appointed regional minister of Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing in Zaia's second government. In the 2020 regional election Pan was elected to the Regional Council from the

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and was subsequently appointed LV floor leader.

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