Roberto Marcato (born 18 July 1968 in

Castelfranco Veneto Castelfranco Veneto () is a town and (municipality) of Veneto, northern Italy, in the province of Treviso. It is the third largest municipality in the province by population after the capital Treviso and Conegliano. It is centrally located betwe ...

) is a Venetist politician from

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. A member of

Liga Veneta Liga Veneta (; ; abbr. LV), whose complete name is (), is a regionalist political party active in Veneto. The LV, whose ideology combines Venetian nationalism and support for fiscal federalism, was established in 1979 under the slogan "farthe ...

–

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since 1992, Marcato was soon involved in municipal politics in his hometown,

Piombino Dese Piombino Dese is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about north of Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and ...

. In the 2004 provincial election he was elected for the first time to the Provincial Council of

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and served, successively, as provincial minister of the Environment and vice president. In 2012 Marcato, an ardent Venetist, supporter of

Luca Zaia Luca Zaia (born 27 March 1968) is an Italian politician, who has been President of Veneto since 2010, and a historical member of Lega Nord, other than being the most Progressivism in the United States, progressive member of his own party. Suppor ...

, close ally of

Massimo Bitonci Massimo Bitonci (born 24 June 1965) is an Italian Venetist politician. Born in Padua, he is a member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, of which he served as national president since 2016. In 1993, he joined Lega Nord and was deputy mayor of Cittade ...

and loyal to former Lega Nord leader

Umberto Bossi Umberto Bossi (born 19 September 1941) is an Italian politician and former leader of (Northern League), a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. He is married to the Sicilian Manuela Marrone, and has four sons, ...

, was also elected provincial secretary of Liga Veneta, making Padua the only province of Veneto where the old guard held, but soon started to clash with the party's new national secretary,

Flavio Tosi Flavio Tosi (born 18 June 1969) is an Italian politician who served as the mayor of Verona from 2007 to 2017. He has been a long-time member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord. Political career Having joined Liga Veneta (LV) in 1991, Tosi was elected ...

. In this respect, Marcato was twice suspended by Tosi from his role and came very close to being ejected from the party altogether. In 2014 Marcato was instrumental in Bitonci's successful bid to become mayor of

and, after the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ...

, he was elected president of the municipal council. In the 2015 regional election, which came after Tosi had been sidelined from the federal party, Marcato was elected to the

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and, after the election, was appointed regional minister of Economic Development and Energy in Zaia's second government, thus resigning from Padua's municipal council. Re-elected in the 2020 regional election, Marcato was appointed regional minister of Economic Development, Energy and Special Status for Venice in Zaia's third government. During this time, he fell out with Bitonci and, in the run-up of the party's 2023 regional congress, he led the challenge of traditional wing, before retiring from the race.

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