He graduated in Accountancy in 1970 and was hired by the engineering industry "Light Alloys Processing" of Porto Marghera and at the same time, he enrolled as a student – employee at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Trento.

In 1972 he began his activity as a full-time trade unionist, as coordinator of employees of the Triveneto for the Federation of metalworkers.

[5] During the Monti Cabinet he is rapporteur of the Salva Italia decree and of the Stability Law for 2012, and he fought in particular for the increase of deductions for dependent children and for the financing of the Fund for social policies and non-self-sufficiency.

Re-elected in the same constituency as leader in the 2013 general elections, on 2 May 2013 he was appointed by the Council of Ministers Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, alongside Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni in the Letta government, being confirmed in subsequent Renzi and Gentiloni governments under Pier Carlo Padoan.

In the general elections of 4 March 2018 he was a candidate for the Senate of the Republic for the Coalizione di centro-destra alle elezioni politiche italiane del 2018 (in the Democratic Party), in the majority college of Rovigo, but he was defeated, in fact coming third behind the center-right candidate Roberta Toffanin and the Movement 5 Stars Micaela D'Aquino.