Leonardo Marras (born 12 January 1973) is an Italian politician.

Biography

Born in

Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and a ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the province of Grosseto and the main city of the Maremma region. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the ...

on 12 January 1973, Marras graduated from the "Guglielmo Marconi" scientific high school and immediately began his political career, being elected as a municipal councilor in

Roccastrada Roccastrada is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about south of Florence and about north of Grosseto, between the Maremma plain and the Colline Metallifere. ''Frazioni'' The munici ...

in 1992 with the

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. In 1999, at the age of 26, Marras was elected mayor of Roccastrada with the

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left (, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Positioned on the centre-left, the DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger ...

. Marras has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2007. He ran for the office of President of the

Province of Grosseto The province of Grosseto () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Grosseto. As of 2013 the province had a total population of 225,098 people. Geography The Province of Grosseto completely ...

at the 2009 provincial elections, supported by a

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, and won at the second round to the

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candidate Alessandro Antichi on 22 June. He took office on 23 June 2009. Besides being president of the province, Marras was also a delegate to the Regional Assembly of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Regional Council of Local Authorities. From 2012 to 2014, he represented Italy at the

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for the

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. In 2015, he was elected as a member of the

Regional Council of Tuscany The Regional Council of Tuscany () is the parliament, legislative assembly of Tuscany. It was first elected in 1970, when the Regions of Italy, ordinary regions were instituted, on the basis of the Constitution of Italy of 1948. Composition The ...

with 10,265 votes, and also became the group leader of the party in the council. Within the assembly, he served as a member of the First Commission, the Institutional Commission for the socio-economic recovery of the Tuscan coast, and as vice-president of the Inquiry Commission for the

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. In the 2018 general election, Marras was a candidate in the uninominal constituency of Grosseto for the

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, on behalf of the centre-left coalition under the Democratic Party, garnering 28% of the votes and losing to the centre-right candidate Mario Lolini. In September 2020, he was re-elected at the Tuscan regional election with 18,125 votes, making him the most voted candidate in Tuscany. On 22 October, he was appointed assessor of economy and tourism in the regional government led by president

Eugenio Giani Eugenio Giani (born 30 June 1959) is an Italian politician. He started his political activity in the Italian Socialist Party and he was active in the City council of Florence, of which he became president in 2009. He became a member of the Demo ...

. He was replaced in the regional council by Donatella Spadi.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marras, Leonardo 1973 births Living people Mayors of places in Tuscany Members of the Regional Council of Tuscany People from Roccastrada Politicians from Grosseto Presidents of the Province of Grosseto