Gianluca Forcolin

Gianluca Forcolin (born 28 August 1968 in San Donà di Piave) is a Venetist politician from Veneto, Italy.

[2] In the 2008 general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where he sat in the Finance Committee, but did not stand for re-election five years later because he, a Venetist close to Luca Zaia as well as loyal to former Lega Nord leader Umberto Bossi, was not popular with the new leadership led by Flavio Tosi.

[4][5] In 2015, after Tosi was sidelined by the federal party, Forcolin made his comeback: he was elected to the Regional Council as the most voted candidate of Liga Veneta in the province of Venice[1][6] and Zaia, who had been re-elected President, appointed him Vice President and minister of Budget and Local Government.

[7][8] In the run-up of the 2020 Venetian regional election Forcolin resigned from the Regional Government, after announcing that his accountant office had asked (but not received) a fiscal bonus related to the Covid-19 crisis, a move that was deemed umpopular by the public and President Zaia himself; Forcolin also renounced to run for re-election.

First, in May he was permitted by Liga Veneta to run an alternative list named after himself in the municipal election of San Donà di Piave: "United for San Donà — Forcolin Civic List" obtained 11.6% of the vote, just below the tally reached by the mother party (11.9%), and Forcolin a record number of preference votes,[12][13] opening the way for his appointment in the municipal government.