Giorgio Panto was an Italian Venetist

Venetism

Venetian nationalism is an ideology and a regionalist movement demanding more autonomy, or even independence from Italy, for Veneto, and promoting the re-discovery the Republic of Venice's heritage, traditions, culture and language...

 entrepreneur and politician.

Panto was born at Meolo

Meolo

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, in the Province of Venice

Province of Venice

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. After being a long-time supporter of the Liga Veneta

Liga Veneta

Liga Veneta is a regionalist political party based in Veneto, combining Venetism and fiscal federalism. Liga Veneta is by far the largest party in Veneto and the party of Luca Zaia, President of Veneto since March 2010.It was the first party of its kind in Northern Italy, predating Umberto...

–Lega Nord, in 2004 he founded a new Venetist and fiscal federalist

Fiscal federalism

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 party called North-East Project

North-East Project

North-East Project is a Venetist, fiscal federalist and libertarian Italian political party based in Veneto, demanding larger autonomy, if not complete independence for the region.-History:...

 (Progetto NordEst, PNE), in which he welcomed many former Leghisti as Ettore Beggiato

Ettore Beggiato

Ettore Beggiato is a Venetist historian and politician.As member of several Venetist political parties , he was member of the Regional Council of Veneto from 1985 to 2000...

, Mariangelo Foggiato

Mariangelo Foggiato

Mariangelo Foggiato is a Venetist politician.Having joined Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1995. He however left that party in 1998, when he founded Liga Veneta Repubblica along with Fabrizio Comencini...

 and Diego Cancian. It was not the first time that Panto run for the post of President of the Region: in fact, in the 1995 regional election

Venetian regional election, 1995

The Venetian regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995.For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term....

 Panto won 3.7%, under the banner of New Italy

New Italy

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 and Lega Autonomia Veneta

Lega Autonomia Veneta

The Lega Autonomia Veneta was a centre-left regionalist political party in Veneto.The party was composed mainly of dissidents from Liga Veneta, but nevertheless its long-standing leaders were Mario Rigo, a former Mayor of Venice and MEP for the Italian Socialist Party, and Oscar De Bona,...

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In the 2005 Venetian regional election

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 won 6.0% of the vote (16.1% in the stronghold of Treviso

Province of Treviso

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) as candidate for President of the Region, coming third after Giancarlo Galan

Giancarlo Galan

Giancarlo Galan is an Italian politician.After having been a Liberal activist in the Seventies and the Eighties, he was not active in politics until he joined Forza Italia since its foundation in 1994. In the same year he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies.In 1995 he ran successfully...

 (Forza Italia

Forza Italia

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/House of Freedoms

House of Freedoms

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) and Massimo Carraro

Massimo Carraro

Massimo Carraro is an Italian university professor, entrepreneur and politician from Veneto.From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament for the social-democratic Democrats of the Left, despite not being a member of the party...

 (The Union

The Union (political coalition)

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). The PNE list took the 5.4%, electing two regional deputies.

In 2006 provincial elections in Treviso, he came third with the 10.3%, after Leonardo Muraro

Leonardo Muraro

Leonardo Muraro is an Italian Venetist politician. He is a leading member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord.A long-time member of Liga Veneta, Muraro was appointed Vice President of the Province of Treviso by President Luca Zaia, who led a monocolor government, in 2002...

 (Liga Veneta-Lega Nord/House of Freedoms) and Lorenzo Biagi (DL/The Union), while the PNE list scored 10.8%.

He was also involved in the entrepreneurs' trade union European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs

European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs

The European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs - Entrepreneurs' Trade Union is an association of entrepreneurs based in Veneto, one of the regions of Italy....

 (LIFE), founded by Fabio Padovan

Fabio Padovan

Member of the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, Fabio Padovan was deputy at the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1994 and leader of the European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs , an organization defending the little and medium-sized industries in Veneto....

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He died at Venice in a helicopter accident on 26 November 2006.