Giorgio Panto

Giorgio Panto (1 October 1941 – 26 November 2006) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. Panto was born at

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, in the

Province of Venice The Province of Venice (''Provincia di Venezia'') was a province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital was the city of Venice. It had an area of 2,467 km2, and a total population of 846,962 (2011). The province became the Met ...

. After being a long-time supporter of the

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–

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, in 2004 he founded a new Venetist and fiscal federalist party called

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(''Progetto NordEst'', PNE), in which he welcomed many former ''Leghisti'' as

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Mariangelo Foggiato Mariangelo Foggiato (Possagno, 19 April 1954) is a Venetist politician. Having joined Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1995. However, he left the party in 1998, when he founded Liga Veneta Repubblica ( ...

and

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. It was not the first time that Panto run for the post of President of the Region: in fact, in the 1995 regional election Panto won 3.7%, under the banner of New Italy and

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. In the

2005 Venetian regional election The Venetian regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005. Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time in a row President of the Region, but the support for him was diminished by the presence o ...

, he won 6.0% of the vote (16.1% in the stronghold of

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) as candidate for President of the Region, coming third after

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(

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) and

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(

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). The PNE list took the 5.4%, electing two regional deputies. In 2006 provincial elections in Treviso, he came third with the 10.3%, after

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(Liga Veneta-Lega Nord/House of Freedoms) and Lorenzo Biagi ( DL/The Union), while the PNE list scored 10.8%. He was also involved in the entrepreneurs' trade union European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs (LIFE), founded by

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. He died at Venice in a helicopter accident on 26 November 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Panto, Giorgio 1941 births 2006 deaths Politicians from the Metropolitan City of Venice Venetist politicians Italian libertarians Victims of helicopter accidents or incidents Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Italy Members of the Regional Council of Veneto 21st-century Italian politicians