Franco Manzato (born 19 May 1966 in

Oderzo Oderzo ( la, Opitergium; vec, Oderso) is a '' comune'' with a population of 20,003 in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy. It lies in the heart of the Venetian plain, about to the northeast of Venice. Oderzo is crossed by the Montic ...

) is a Venetist politician. He is a member of

Liga Veneta Liga Veneta ( vec, Łiga Vèneta; en, Venetian League; abbr. LV), whose complete name is ( en, Venetian League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist political party active in Veneto. The LV, whose ideology combines Venetian nationalism and ...

– Lega Nord. After a degree in philosophy, Manzato begun to work as consultant for small and medium-size enterprises and joined Liga Veneta in 1984, seven years before the foundation of Lega Nord. In the 2000 regional election he was elected to the

Regional Council of Veneto The Regional Council of Veneto (''Consiglio Regionale del Veneto'') is the regional parliament of Veneto. The Council, which has its seat at Palazzo Ferro Fini, located along the Grand Canal in Venice. was first elected in 1970, when ordinar ...

. He was then re-elected in 2005 and was party leader in the Council from 2002 through 2008, when he became regional minister of Agriculture and Tourism in

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, replacing

Luca Zaia Luca Zaia (born 27 March 1968) is a Venetian and Venetist politician, who has been President of Veneto since 2010. Prior to that, Zaia was President of the Province of Treviso from 1998 to 2005, Vice President of Veneto from 2005 to 2008 and ...

. Re-elected in 2010, he was appointed regional minister of Agriculture in

Zaia I Government The first Zaia government, led by president Luca Zaia, was the government of Veneto it, Veneto (man) it, Veneta (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , ...

. In 2018 Manzato was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and he has been appointed Undersecretary for agricultural, food and forestry policies in the

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.Chi sono i sottosegretari e i viceministri del nuovo governo
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