Role Canadian Politician Name Cosmo Maciocia | ||
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Cosmo Maciocia (born February 2, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.
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Background
He was born in Cantalupo nel Sannio, Molise, Italy on February 2, 1942 and arrived in Canada in 1964.
City Councillor in Saint-Léonard
He was a City Councillor in Saint-Léonard in 1978.
Member of the legislature
He successfully ran as a Liberal candidate to the provincial legislature for the district of Viger in 1981. He was re-elected in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1998.
He was Parliamentary Assistant from 1985 to 1994.
Back in City Politics
In the wake of the province-wide Municipal Merger of 2001, gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal or UCIM) in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montreal.
In 2005, he was elected as Borough Mayor for Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles-Montréal-Est, and retained his position as mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles following the 2006 demerger of Montréal-Est.
Maciocia is a Member of Montreal's Executive Committee.
He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.