Pietro Fontanini (born 23 September 1952) is an

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politician from the

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, former mayor of

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and former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Biography

Graduated in Sociology, Fontanini joined the

after having spent a few years in the

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. Once elected to the regional council of

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, Fontanini is appointed President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia for the first five months of the legislature. He left his seat in the regional council in order to run for the

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at the 1994 general election, resulting in his election. He is later elected to the

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at the

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and the 2001 general election. In 1995, Fontanini is elected Mayor of

Campoformido Campoformido (; archaically ''Campoformio''; ) is a town and (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern Italy, with a population of 7743 (December 2019). It is notable for the Treaty ...

, in the

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, and held the seat for two consecutive terms until 2004. In 2008, he is elected President of the

, being later re-elected in 2013. He left the office a few months before the end of his second term in order to run for the office of Mayor of Udine at the 2018 local election: Fontanini is elected at the runoff.

References

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*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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