{{short description|Italian politician (born 1976)}} {{use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Lorenzo Basso | image = Lorenzo Basso XIX.jpg | caption = Basso in 2022 | office = Member of the Senate | constituency = Liguria – 01 | term_start = 13 October 2022 | term_end = | office1 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start1 = 15 March 2013 | term_end1 = 22 March 2018 | constituency1 = Liguria | party = Democratic Party | other_party = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|19 February 1976|df=yes}} | birth_place = | alma_mater = }}
'''Lorenzo Basso''' (born 19 February 1976) is an Italian politician serving as a member of the Senate since 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senato.it/composizione/senatori/elenco-alfabetico/scheda-attivita?did=00029270|title=Lorenzo Basso|publisher=Senate of the Republic|language=it}}</ref> From 2013 to 2018, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.camera.it/leg17/29?shadow_deputato=305721&idLegislatura=17|title=Basso Lorenzo – Pd|publisher=Chamber of Deputies|language=it}}</ref>
==Biography== From 1995 to 2005, he served as a council member and later as vice president of the Genoa Central-West Municipal Council, focusing in particular on issues related to employment, the environment, quality of life, and Innovation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deputatipd.it/deputati/basso-lorenzo|title=Basso|website=Gruppo Pd - Camera dei deputati News, informazioni e tanto altro sulle nostre attività}}</ref>
In the 2009 PD primary elections, he supported Pier Luigi Bersani motion, which focused on the need to unite Catholic-populist values with those of Democratic socialism and social democracy.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.corriere.it/politica/09_agosto_18/bersani_pd_intervista_f11076fe-8bfe-11de-a273-00144f02aabc.shtml|title=Bersani: «Il Pd deve recuperare le radici cattoliche e socialiste»}}</ref>
He ran in the 2010 regional elections in Liguria as a candidate for the Democratic Party (Italy) and was elected to the Liguria Regional Council from the Genoa district.
He ran for regional secretary of the PD in Liguria, challenging Sergio Cofferati, and was elected in the primary election on October 25, 2009, with 44,021 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genova.repubblica.it/dettaglio/pd-liguria-basso-e-il-segretario-dedico-la-vittoria-ai-volontari/1759600|title=Pd Liguria, Basso è il segretario"Dedico la vittoria ai volontari"}}</ref>
He drafted the first regional anti-Mafia law,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://iterc.regione.liguria.it/Documenti.asp?comando=Ricerca&AnnoProc=2011&NumProc=328&CodDoc= |title=Regione Ligura: testi presentati|publisher=Regione Liguria}}</ref> which was approved on February 29, 2021.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ivg.it/2012/02/regione-approvata-all’unanimita-la-prima-legge-antimafia-in-liguria/|title=Regione: approvata all'unanimità la prima legge antimafia in Liguria}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Basso, Lorenzo}} Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Category:Deputies of Legislature XVII of Italy Category:Senators of Legislature XIX of Italy
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