Massimo Mallegni (born 28 November 1968 in

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) is an

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politician. He is a

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of the

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and is a member of the

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Biography

Mallegni was born in Pietrasanta, in the province of

Lucca Città di Lucca ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its Province of Lucca, province has a population of 383,9 ...

. He is an entrepreneur in the tourism sector. In 1994, he joined

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. In 1994, he became councillor of the Province of Lucca, until 1997. In 1997, he became mayor in his native town, Pietrasanta, and was reelected three times: in 2000, in 2005 and in 2015. in 2016, Mallegni invited the artist

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to hold an exhibition of his sculptures, working with local artisans to complete works in bronze and marble.

Election as Senator

In 2017, he resigned as mayor in view of the following year's

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, in which he was elected

in 2018. In December 2019, he was among the 64 signatories (41 of which were from Forza Italia) for the confirmatory referendum on the decrease in the size of the parliament: a few months earlier, the Berlusconian senators had deserted the senate on the occasion of the vote on the constitutional reform. At the beginning of January 2020, he withdrew his signature together with three other Forza Italia senators close to

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. In August, with the regional elections in

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, he was chosen as regional commissioner of Forza Italia after the resignation of the coordinator Stefano Mugnai.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mallegni, Massimo Living people 1968 births People from Pietrasanta Forza Italia politicians Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy Forza Italia (2013) senators 20th-century Italian politicians