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Place of Birth: Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
About Giuseppe Ceccato
- Giuseppe Ceccato (Vicenza, 18 September 1950) is a Venetist politician. He joined Liga Veneta in the 1980s, long before the foundation of Lega Nord in 1991.
- He was twice elected to the Italian Senate in 1994 and 1996.
- After the split of Liga Veneta Repubblica in 1998, he was elected national president of Liga Veneta.
- However he himself left the party in 1999 and launched Future Veneto.
- This party joined the Autonomists for Europe, a federation of splinter parties from Lega Nord, and run the 2000 regional election in a joint-list with Liga Fronte Veneto, then named Veneti d'Europa, which won a mere 2.4% regionally. In early 2001, along with the other 13 Autonomist MPs, he joined European Democracy, but he failed re-election due to the bad result of the party, which won only 2.3% of the vote nationally.
- In 2002 European Democracy was merged with other Christian-democratic parties into the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats.
- Ceccato is currently a local leader of that party in the Province of Vicenza.From 1995 to 2004 Ceccato served as Mayor of Montecchio Maggiore.
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