Mauro Laus
{{short description|Italian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mauro Laus
| office = Senator of the Legislature XVIII of Italy
| image = Mauro Laus datisenato 2018.jpg
| birth_date = 7 August 1966
| birth_place = Lavello
| termstart = March 2018
| constituency = Piedmont
| country = Italy
| nationality = Italian
| president = Sergio Mattarella
| party = Democratic Party (Italy)
}}
Mauro Antonio Donato Laus (b. Lavello, 7 August 1966) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party, who serves as a Senator.{{Cite web|date=2020-12-16|title=Laus: "Nessuno usi le primarie per dare la caccia a poltrone"|url=https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/12/16/news/laus_nessuno_usi_le_primarie_per_dare_la_caccia_a_poltrone_-278642189/|access-date=2021-01-09|website=la Repubblica|language=it}} He is a member of the Legislature XVIII of Italy.{{Cite web|date=2020-12-23|title=Laus boccia la proposta di Furia di un sondaggio Pd per il candidato sindaco: "Fallisce politica, trionfa marketing"|url=https://nuovasocieta.it/laus-boccia-la-proposta-di-furia-di-un-sondaggio-pd-per-il-candidato-sindaco-fallisce-politica-trionfa-marketing/|access-date=2021-01-09|website=Nuova Società|language=it-IT}}
Biography
After spending his childhood and adolescence in Lavello (PZ), he moved to Turin. He is married and has two children.{{Cite web|date=2018-08-16|title=Curriculum - Mauro Laus|url=http://www.maurolaus.it/chi-sono/|access-date=2021-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816162112/http://www.maurolaus.it/chi-sono/|archive-date=2018-08-16}}
Political activity
In the 2005 regional elections in Piedmont he was elected regional councilor, on the Margherita lists, in the province of Turin. He was also re-elected in the subsequent regional 2010, in the lists of the Democratic Party. Re-elected councilor again also at the 2014 regional councils, on 30 May 2014 he was elected president of the Piedmont Regional Council.{{Cite web|title=La prima del nuovo Consiglio regionale è andata: Laus eletto presidente|url=https://www.torinotoday.it/politica/mauro-laus-presidente-consiglio-regionale.html|access-date=2021-01-09|website=TorinoToday|language=it}}
= Election as Senator =
In the 2018 general elections of Italy he was elected to the Senate of the Republic in the single-member constituency of Turin, supported by the Democratic Party.{{Cite web|date=2018-03-05|title=Grandi manovre in Consiglio regionale: Laus a Roma, libera la sedia di presidente|url=https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2018/03/05/news/grandi-manovre-in-consiglio-regionale-laus-a-roma-libera-la-sedia-di-presidente-1.33988116|access-date=2021-01-09|website=lastampa.it|language=it-IT}}
Controversy
In 2018, during a heated debate in the Senate, he reportedly told Senator Alessandra Maiorino (M5S) to return to the kitchen, attracting criticism and bipartisan accusations of sexism.{{Cite web|date=2018-11-06|title=Dl sicurezza, Laus (Pd) a Maiorino (M5s): "Tornatene in cucina". Lega e Possibile: "Insulto sessista"|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/11/06/dl-sicurezza-laus-pd-a-maiorino-m5s-tornatene-in-cucina-lega-e-possibile-insulto-sessista/4746438/|access-date=2021-01-09|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it-IT}}
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