| Mauro Laus | |
| Office: | Senator of the Legislature XVIII of Italy |
| 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.[1] He is a member of the Legislature XVIII of Italy.[2]
After spending his childhood and adolescence in Lavello (PZ), he moved to Turin. He is married and has two children.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]