Gianluca Forcolin

Gianluca Forcolin (born 28 August 1968 in San Donà di Piave) is a Venetist politician from Veneto, Italy.

A member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord since 1993,[1] Forcolin was long involved in municipal politics in his hometown, Musile di Piave, of which he had been councillor, assessor, deputy mayor and finally mayor from 2007 to 2015.[2] In the 2008 general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where he sat in the Finance Committee, but did not stand for re-election five years later because he, a Venetist close to Luca Zaia as well as loyal to former Lega Nord leader Umberto Bossi, was not popular with the new leadership led by Flavio Tosi.[3] He was even suspended from the party for ten months by the local leader Daniele Stival.[4][5]

In 2015, after Tosi was sidelined by the federal party, Forcolin made his comeback: he was elected to the Regional Council as the most voted candidate of Liga Veneta in the province of Venice[1][6] and Zaia, who had been re-elected President, appointed him Vice President and minister of Budget and Local Government.[7][8] In the run-up of the 2020 Venetian regional election Forcolin resigned from the Regional Government, after announcing that his accountant office had asked (but not received) a fiscal bonus related to the Covid-19 crisis, a move that was deemed umpopular by the public and President Zaia himself; Forcolin also renounced to run for re-election.[9][10]

References
  1. "Consiglio Regionale Veneto - Il Consiglio". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. "Forcolin prima si dimette e poi si commuove - Cronaca - La Nuova di Venezia". 8 July 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  3. "Forcolin vice di Zaia "Bisogna aiutare subito i Comuni" - Cronaca - La Nuova di Venezia". 1 July 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. "La Lega sospende Forcolin "Pronti a ridare le tessere" - Cronaca - La Nuova di Venezia". 20 November 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. "MUSILE DI PIAVE – Uno Stival in testa a Forcolin: il sindaco di Musile ad un passo dall'espulsione sospeso per 10 mesi dalla Lega dopo la richiesta presentata dal commissario del Veneto Orientale – Forcolin non la manda a dire: "Meglio scappare da 'sta gente, per carità. Il modello di Stival è la "lega sotto zero", altro che 2.0"". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  6. "Ecco chi sono i 9 consiglieri regionali veneziani - Cronaca - La Nuova di Venezia". 1 June 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  7. "Regione Veneto - Giunta Regionale". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  8. "Zaia vara la sua giunta, vicepresidente il veneziano Gianluca Forcolin - Cronaca - La Nuova di Venezia". 29 June 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  9. https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2020/08/13/bonus-dimissioni-e-fuori-dalle-liste-i-3-leghisti-del-veneto_f94b4679-53b2-461a-8374-1dadf83176b9.html
  10. https://ilnuovoterraglio.it/comunicato-stampa-del-vicepresidente-forcolin
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