Sergio Cecotti
Mayor of Udine
In office
2 December 1998 – 27 April 2008
Preceded byEnzo Barazza
Succeeded byFurio Honsell
President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
In office
5 September 1995 – 28 April 1996
Preceded byAlessandra Guerra
Succeeded byGiancarlo Cruder
Personal details
Born (1956-10-23) 23 October 1956
Udine, Italy
Political partyLN (till 2003)
Independent (2003-2018)
PpA (since 2018)
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
OccupationPhysicist, politician, academic

Sergio Cecotti (born 23 October 1956) is an Italian politician, former Mayor of Udine and former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Biography

Academic career

Cecotti graduated in physics at the University of Pisa in 1979 and has worked at the Harvard University,[1] at the UCLA,[1] at the CERN in Geneva (where he worked with Nobel Prize recipient Carlo Rubbia)[2] and at the ICTP in Trieste.[1][3]

He has taught physics at the University of Pisa and at the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste.[2]

Political career

In 1993, Cecotti joined the Northern League, with which he has been elected to the regional council of Friuli Venezia Giulia. He has been President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia for a few months between 1995 and 1996, with the support of his party and of the Olive Tree.[4]

In December 1998, Cecotti is elected Mayor of Udine with the Northern League,[5] leaving the party in 2003 after criticizing its subalternity to Forza Italia, and founding Convergence for Udine. After leaving the League, in June 2003 Cecotti is re-elected for a second mayoral term: this time, Cecotti was supported by the centre-left Olive Tree coalition.[6] Cecotti held his seat for 10 years overall. On 14 February 2007 Cecotti decided to transform Convergence for Udine into a regional party, called Convergence for Friuli (Convergenza per il Friuli). The party was represented in the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia by Mario Puiatti, elected in 2003 for the Greens.

In 2018, Cecotti founded the political movement Pact for Autonomy,[7] an autonomism political party in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, which aims to protect all linguistic minorities in the region, and with which he ran again for the office of President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia at the 2018 regional election,[8] ranking fourth.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Il prof di fisica teorica salito in cattedra anche nella politica". Messaggero Veneto. 31 December 2006. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Regionali e comunali, oltre un milione di cittadini al voto in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Affluenza finale del 49,63%". jobsnews.it. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "INSPIRE: Sergio Cecotti—author profile". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  4. ↑ "Sergio Cecotti e Massimiliano Fedriga - Passato e futuro nel presente". euroregionenews.eu. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Sindaco leghista per Udine". La Repubblica. 30 November 1998. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Anche Udine al centrosinistra: si completa la debacle del Polo". La Repubblica. 11 June 2003. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Cecotti: ecco il mio programma per salvare la Regione". ilfriuli.it. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  8. ↑ "Elezioni in Friuli Venezia Giulia: affluenza finale al 49,63%". La Repubblica. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "In Friuli Venezia Giulia ha stravinto il centrodestra". Il Post. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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