, 26 September 1957) is an Italian

Italy

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 politician.

He joined the Italian Social Movement

Italian Social Movement

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 in the 1970s and later National Alliance

National Alliance (Italy)

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. Three times elected to the Regional Council of Veneto

Regional Council of Veneto

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 (1995

Venetian regional election, 1995

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, 2000

Venetian regional election, 2000

The Venetian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.Giancarlo Galan was re-elected for the third time President of the Region by a landslide over the centre-left candidate Massimo Cacciari ....

, 2005

Venetian regional election, 2005

The Venetian regional election of 2005 took place on 3-4 April 2005.Giancarlo Galan was re-elected for the third time in a row President of the Region, but the support for him was diminished by the presence of a third candidate, Giorgio Panto, who picked votes both from the centre-right and the...

), he was regional minister of Social Affairs in Galan I Government

Galan I Government

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 (1995–2000) and minister of Security and Immigration in Galan II Government

Galan II Government

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 (2000–2005).

In 2008, along with National Alliance, Zanon joined The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom

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 (PdL), but failed to be re-elected to the Council in 2010

Venetian regional election, 2010

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. He is also the leader of Venetian Right, a regional faction of the PdL composed by former Missini

Italian Social Movement

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who are both Italian and Venetian nationalists.