Enzo Lattuca

{{Short description|Italian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Enzo Lattuca

| image = Enzo Lattuca daticamera.jpg

| office = Mayor of Cesena

| termstart = 10 June 2019

| termend =

| predecessor = Paolo Lucchi

| successor =

| office2 = President of Province of Forlì-Cesena

| termstart2 = 19 December 2021

| termend2 =

| predecessor2 = Gabriele Antonio Fratto

| successor2 =

| office3 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies

| termstart3 = 15 March 2013

| termend3 = 22 March 2018

| constituency3 = Emilia-Romagna

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1988|02|09}}

| birth_place = Cesena, Italy

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = DS (until 2007)
PD (since 2007)

| alma_mater = University of Bologna

}}

File:P061209-351187.jpg in Cesena.]]

Enzo Lattuca (born 9 February 1988) is an Italian politician, former deputy of the Italian Republic, mayor of Cesena since 2019 and current President of the Union of Valle Savio Municipalities.{{Cite web|title=Enzo Lattuca è il nuovo presidente dell'Unione dei Comuni Valle Savio|url=https://www.cesenatoday.it/politica/enzo-lattuca-e-il-nuovo-presidente-dell-unione-dei-comuni-valle-savio.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=CesenaToday|language=it}}{{Cite web|title=Il sindaco di Cesena Enzo Lattuca è il nuovo presidente dell'Unione dei Comuni Valle Savio|url=https://www.corrierecesenate.it/Cesena/Il-sindaco-di-Cesena-Enzo-Lattuca-e-il-nuovo-presidente-dell-Unione-dei-Comuni-Valle-Savio|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Corriere Cesenate|language=it}}

Biography

= Studies =

Graduated in 2007 at the Augusto Righi Scientific High School in Cesena, in July 2012, he obtained a master's degree in Law at the University of Bologna with a thesis in Constitutional Law entitled "The powers of the President of the Republic in training, crises and activities of the Government".{{Cite web|last=www.comune.cesena.fc.it|first=Comune di Cesena-|title=Il Sindaco - Enzo Lattuca|url=https://www.comune.cesena.fc.it/sindaco|access-date=2021-08-09|website=www.comune.cesena.fc.it|language=it}} Subsequently, in 2017, he obtained - again at the University of Bologna - the title of PhD in Constitutional Law, discussing a thesis on "Parliamentary law, study of the practice of the XVII Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies".{{Cite thesis|title=Il Diritto Parlamentare. Studio della prassi della XVII legislatura della Camera dei Deputati|url=http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/8170/|publisher=Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna|date=2017-05-24|degree=Doctoral Thesis|language=it|first=Enzo <1988>|last=Lattuca}}

= Personal life =

He lives with Giorgia and is the father of two children:{{Cite web|title=Le interviste personali, Lattuca: "Fare una scelta per una Cesena del domani da lasciare ai nostri figli"|url=https://www.cesenatoday.it/politica/elezioni-2019-cesena-intervista-enzo-lattuca-candidato.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=CesenaToday|language=it}} Tommaso (born in 2017) and Pietro (born in 2019).{{Cite web|title=Nuovo fiocco azzurro per il candidato sindaco Enzo Lattuca: dopo Tommaso arriva Pietro|url=https://www.cesenatoday.it/cronaca/enzo-lattuca-papa-seconda-volta-22-marzo-2019.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=CesenaToday|language=it}}

Political activity

Since 2009, he has been a municipal councilor of Cesena and, since 2010, he has held the position of municipal secretary of the Democratic Party.

In December 2012, he won the parliamentary primary of the PD Cesena, winning 3,918 preferences out of 5,892 voters.{{Cite web|last=Carlino|first=il Resto del|title=Primarie Pd, largo al segretario: Enzo Lattuca vince senza rivali|url=https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/cesena/politica/2012/12/30/823613-primarie-pd-risultati-enzo-lattuca.shtml|access-date=2021-08-09|website=il Resto del Carlino|date=30 December 2012|language=it}}

= Member of the Chamber of Deputies =

In the general elections of February, 2013, he was elected deputy, becoming the youngest member of parliament of the 17th legislature and in the entire history of Italy, having turned 25 years and 15 days at the time of the vote.{{Cite web|title=Incontro post elettorale a Casola Valsenio con il neo deputato Enzo Lattuca|url=https://www.ravennatoday.it/politica/incontro-post-elettorale-a-casola-valsenio-con-il-neo-deputato-enzo-lattuca.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=RavennaToday|language=it}}{{Cite web|last=Carlino|first=il Resto del|title=Cesena, elezioni politiche: ecco Enzo Lattuca, l'enfant prodige del Pd|url=https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/politica/2013/01/19/832522-enzo-lattuca-pd.shtml|access-date=2021-08-09|website=il Resto del Carlino|date=19 January 2013|language=it}}

On May 9, 2013, he announced his resignation as councilor of Cesena,{{Cite web|title=Il Pd si muove per il 'dopo Lattuca', si mobilitano gli iscritti al partito|url=https://www.cesenatoday.it/politica/il-pd-si-muove-per-il-dopo-lattuca-si-mobilitano-gli-iscritti-al-partito.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=CesenaToday|language=it}} reasons therefore with the "objective difficulties" involved in the maintenance of the dual role of parliamentary and municipal councilor, as well as the belief gained about the inappropriateness of asking for a derogation from the prohibition dual role established by the statute of the PD.

On May 4, 2015, he opposed voting for Italicum, the new electoral law approved by the House.{{Cite web|date=2015-05-04|title=Italicum è legge, via libera della Camera: 334 sì. Opposizioni fuori, parte della minoranza vota no|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/05/04/news/italicum_al_traguardo_boschi_e_l_ultima_settimana_la_volta_buona_-113481160/|access-date=2021-08-09|website=la Repubblica|language=it}}

= Mayor of Cesena =

On 9 June 2019, he was elected mayor of the city of Cesena defeating center-right candidate Andrea Rossi in the ballot with 55.74%.{{Cite web|title=Enzo Lattuca è il nuovo sindaco di Cesena con il 55,74 per cento dei voti|url=https://www.corrierecesenate.it/Cesena/Enzo-Lattuca-e-il-nuovo-sindaco-di-Cesena-con-il-55-74-per-cento-dei-voti|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Corriere Cesenate|language=it}} On the occasion of the first session of the new city council, on 27 June 2019, he sworn in as the new mayor of the city.{{Cite web|title=Il sindaco Enzo Lattuca presta giuramento in Consiglio e presenta la giunta|url=https://www.cesenatoday.it/video/consiglio-comunale-cesena-giuramento-sindaco-enzo-lattuca-.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=CesenaToday|language=it}}

Controversy

On 25 October 2013, the deputy of the Five Star Movement Maria Edera Spadoni accused him of physical and verbal assault against her,{{Cite web|title=Spadoni accusa Lattuca: mi ha aggredito - Emilia Romagna - ANSA.it|url=https://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/regioni/emiliaromagna/2013/10/25/Spadoni-accusa-Lattuca-ha-aggredito_9520252.html|access-date=2021-08-09|website=www.ansa.it}} therefore asking the Bureau of the Chamber to evaluate the episode for disciplinary purposes.{{Cite web|title=Le decisioni dell|url=http://www.camera.it/leg17/browse/1132?shadow_primapagina=3391|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Camera dei Deputati|language=it}} In a note, the deputy PD contested the reconstruction of the facts, denying any aggressive intent against the colleague.{{Cite web|last=Carlino|first=il Resto del|title=La grillina Spadoni: "Lattuca mi ha aggredito" Il deputato cesenate nega tutto|url=https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/cesena/cronaca/2013/10/25/971798-spadoni-lattuca-aggressione-camera.shtml|access-date=2021-08-09|website=il Resto del Carlino|date=25 October 2013|language=it}}

On 11 December 2013, the Bureau of the Chamber took note of the fact that a mere verbal altercation took place between the two deputies, also arranging "by way of exception [...] to make available on the website the video recording of this episode in consideration of the media coverage that the same has had",{{Cite web|title=Le decisioni dell|url=http://www.camera.it/leg17/browse/1132?shadow_primapagina=3391|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Camera dei Deputati|language=it}} in which the gesture of knocking made on the head of the M5S deputy and consequently the clerks of the Chamber who dragged away the deputy of the PD.{{Cite web|date=2013-12-24|title=La fine della storia della lite in aula tra Enzo Lattuca e Maria Edera Spadoni - Giornalettismo|url=http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/1264693/la-fine-della-storia-della-lite-in-aula-tra-enzo-lattuca-e-maria-edera-spadoni/|access-date=2021-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105344/http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/1264693/la-fine-della-storia-della-lite-in-aula-tra-enzo-lattuca-e-maria-edera-spadoni/|archive-date=2013-12-24}} Lattuca, after expressing his satisfaction with the conclusions of the Bureau, made a request for a public apology to him by the deputy Giorgio Sorialfor "having declared that I had put my hands on my colleague Spadoni".{{Cite web|date=2013-12-16|title=La Camera 'sentenzia': nessuna aggressione Lattuca a Spadoni - Video|url=http://www.agi.it/politica/notizie/la-camera-sentenzia-nessuna-aggressione-lattuca-a-spadoni---videobr-|access-date=2021-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216230800/http://www.agi.it/politica/notizie/la-camera-sentenzia-nessuna-aggressione-lattuca-a-spadoni---videobr-|archive-date=2013-12-16}}

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