Lorenzo Dellai (born 28 November 1959 in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

) is an Italian politician deputy of the

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, and former governor of the

Autonomous Province of Trento Trentino ( lld, Trentin), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north. The Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region ...

and former President of the region of

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Background

He was elected mayor of

for the first time in 1990, and re-elected in 1995. In 1998 Lorenzo Dellai founded the Daisy Civic List, a

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active in Trentino. Dellai has been the President of the Province of Trentino since 1999, and the President of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol since 2006. He joined

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and was elected deputy on electoral district Trentino Alto Adige.

External links

Information on the website of the Province of Trento
1959 births Living people Presidents of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Members of the Regional Council of Trentino-Alto Adige People from Trento Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians 20th-century Italian politicians Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy politicians 21st-century Italian politicians Civic Choice politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) Solidary Democracy politicians Mayors of Trento Presidents of Trentino Daisy Civic List politicians {{Italy-mayor-stub