Leonardo Marras

Leonardo Marras
Regional assessor of Economy and Tourism of Tuscany
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 October 2020
PresidentEugenio Giani
Member of the Regional Council of Tuscany
In office
17 June 2015 – 22 September 2020
President of the Province of Grosseto
In office
23 June 2009 – 14 October 2014
Preceded byLio Scheggi
Succeeded byEmilio Bonifazi
Mayor of Roccastrada
In office
13 June 1999 – 7 June 2009
Preceded byOlinto Bartalucci
Succeeded byGiancarlo Innocenti
Personal details
Born (1973-01-12) 12 January 1973 (age 52)
Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy[1][2]
Political partyPDS (1992–1998)
DS (1998–2007)
PD (since 2007)[1]
Occupationpolitician

Leonardo Marras (born 12 January 1973) is an Italian politician.

Biography

Born in Grosseto on 12 January 1973, Marras graduated from the "Guglielmo Marconi" scientific high school and immediately began his political career, being elected as a municipal councilor in Roccastrada in 1992 with the Democratic Party of the Left. In 1999, at the age of 26, Marras was elected mayor of Roccastrada with the Democrats of the Left.[1][2][3]

Marras has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2007.[2] He ran for the office of President of the Province of Grosseto at the 2009 provincial elections, supported by a centre-left coalition, and won at the second round to the centre-right candidate Alessandro Antichi on 22 June.[2][4][5] He took office on 23 June 2009.[1] Besides being president of the province, Marras was also a delegate to the Regional Assembly of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Regional Council of Local Authorities. From 2012 to 2014, he represented Italy at the Council of Europe for the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.[2]

In 2015, he was elected as a member of the Regional Council of Tuscany with 10,265 votes,[1][2][6] and also became the group leader of the party in the council. Within the assembly, he served as a member of the First Commission, the Institutional Commission for the socio-economic recovery of the Tuscan coast, and as vice-president of the Inquiry Commission for the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.[2]

In the 2018 general election, Marras was a candidate in the uninominal constituency of Grosseto for the Chamber of Deputies, on behalf of the centre-left coalition under the Democratic Party, garnering 28% of the votes and losing to the centre-right candidate Mario Lolini.[7][8]

In September 2020, he was re-elected at the Tuscan regional election with 18,125 votes, making him the most voted candidate in Tuscany.[9] On 22 October, he was appointed assessor of economy and tourism in the regional government led by president Eugenio Giani.[10] He was replaced in the regional council by Donatella Spadi.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Leonardo Marras". Ministry of the Interior of Italy (in Italian). Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Leonardo Marras". Regional Council of Tuscany (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Marras. La scheda: è il primo cittadino più giovane di tutti". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 15 June 1999. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Marras e Antichi vanno al ballottaggio". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 9 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Festa a casa Marras per il presidente". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 23 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Lega boom, Lamioni flop, Marras a Firenze". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 1 June 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Elezioni politiche per la Camera, il centrodestra vince a Grosseto. Lolini passa il 37%". La Nazione (in Italian). 5 March 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Elezioni 2018, Marras: «Ho perso. La mia candidatura, in questo disastro, non ha affatto sfondato»". Il Giunco (in Italian). 5 March 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  9. ^ Guido Fiorini (22 September 2020). "Leonardo Marras il più votato in Toscana, oltre 18mila preferenze. Poi Alessandra Nardini". Il Tirreno. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Regione Toscana, la presentazione degli assessori. Giani: "Sarà una giunta operativa"" (in Italian). La Nazione. 22 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  11. ^ Lisa Ciardi (20 October 2020). "Toscana, in consiglio regionale entrano Merlotti, Pieroni, Rosignoli e Spadi". La Nazione. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
Political offices
Preceded by President of the Province of Grosseto
2009-2014 		Succeeded by