Flavio Tosi

Infobox Mayor
name = Flavio Tosi

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imagesize = 180px
order = Mayor of Verona
term_start = May 2007
term_end =
predecessor = Paolo Zanotto
successor = Incumbent
birth_date = birth date and age|1969|06|18
birth_place = Verona, Italy
nationality = Italian
party = Lega Nord
spouse = |

Flavio Tosi is an Italian Venetist politician. He is member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.

Biography

Having joined Liga Veneta in 1991, he was elected to the Municipal Council of Verona in 1994 at the age of 25. From 1997 to 2003 he was also provincial secretary of Liga Veneta for the Province of Verona. In the meantime, in the 2000 regional election he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto, where he was floor leader of Liga Veneta for two years.

On December 2, 2004, Tosi was found guilty of instigation to racism according to the "Mancino Law", for having collected signatures against the establishment of new gypsy camps in Verona. Later, on January 30, 2007, the Court of Appeal found Tosi not guilty for the above offence, while at the same time finding him guilty of a minor offence (promoting a hatred campaign). On December 13, 2007, the Court of Cassation canceled the latter sentence and ruled that the a new appeal must take placeit icon cite web | url = http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/aprile/21/Flavio_Tosi_Verona_una_citta_co_9_080421222.shtml | title = Flavio Tosi: «Verona è una città laboratorio - Via tutto ciò che è abusivo. Sì a chi è in regola» | publisher = Corriere della Sera | author = Giangiacomo Schiavi| date = 2008-04-21 | accessdate = 2008-05-16] . On June 2008 the Court of Cassation publicized the motivations of its December 2007 sentence, stating that Tosi was not guilty of promoting ideas of racial superiority or hatred and that it is acceptable to discriminate against Roma on the grounds that they are thieves, indicating that the Court of Appeals should not consider as crime political initiatives aimed at illegal acts of minority members. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/01/italy Italy: Court inflames Roma discrimination row] "The Guardian" Retrieved 17 July 2008] it icon cite web | url = http://www.repubblica.it/2008/06/sezioni/cronaca/sicurezza-politica-10/cassazione-tosi/cassazione-tosi.html | title = Cassazione, se i nomadi sono ladri è legittima la discriminazione | publisher = La Repubblica | date = 2008-06-29 | accessdate = 2008-06-30]

After being the most voted candidate in the 2005 regional election (more than 28,000 preference votes), he was appointed regional health minister for the Veneto Region. At the age of 36 he was considered one of the rising stars of Lega Nord in Veneto, alongside Luca Zaia and Federico Bricolo.

In 2007 Tosi is candidate for mayor of Verona. Initially he was supported only by his party, but then, thanks to the excellent support in opinion polls, he was able to threw behind himself the whole centre-right coalition from National Alliance to the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, from the Christian Democracy for the Autonomies to Forza Italia.

On 28 May 2007 he was elected Mayor of Verona by a large margin: 60.8% to 33.9% of the incumbent Paolo Zanotto. Verona is the second largest Italian city ever ruled by a Northern League mayor, the first one being Milan, ruled by Marco Formentini from 1993 to 1997. Tosi was effective in delivering what he promised: few week after being elected, he closed anillegal communist meeting centre, and nine months after being elected, he closed the gypsy campof Boscomanticoit icon cite web | url = http://www.giornaleadige.it/IT/articolo.asp?articolo=2442 | title = Chiusura del campo nomadi di Boscomantico | publisher = L'Adige - settimanale di Verona | date = 2008-03-03 | accessdate = 2008-05-16] .

On 20 July 2008 Tosi was elected president of Liga Veneta.

External links

* [http://www.arena.it/eng/front/documentiING/bio/tosi.html Biography of Flavio Tosi]

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