| Sergio Cecotti | |
| Term Start: | 2 December 1998 |
| Term End: | 27 April 2008 |
| Predecessor: | Enzo Barazza |
| Successor: | Furio Honsell |
| Term Start2: | 5 September 1995 |
| Term End2: | 28 April 1996 |
| Predecessor2: | Alessandra Guerra |
| Successor2: | Giancarlo Cruder |
| Birth Date: | 1956 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Udine, Italy |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Pisa |
| Occupation: | Physicist, politician, academic |
Sergio Cecotti (born 23 October 1956) is an Italian politician, former Mayor of Udine and former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Cecotti graduated in physics at the University of Pisa in 1979 and has worked at the Harvard University,[1] at the UCLA, at the CERN in Geneva and at the ICTP in Trieste.[2]
He has taught physics at the University of Pisa and at the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste.[3]
In 1993, Cecotti joined the Northern League, with which he has been elected to the regional council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. He has been President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia for a few months between 1995 and 1996, with the support of his party and of the Olive Tree.[4]
In December 1998, Cecotti is elected Mayor of Udine with the Northern League,[5] leaving the party in 2003 after criticizing its subalternity to Forza Italia, and founding Convergence for Udine. After leaving the League, in June 2003 Cecotti is re-elected for a second mayoral term: this time, Cecotti was supported by the centre-left Olive Tree coalition.[6] Cecotti held his seat for 10 years overall. On 14 February 2007 Cecotti decided to transform Convergence for Udine into a regional party, called Convergence for Friuli (Convergenza per il Friuli). The party was represented in the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia by Mario Puiatti, elected in 2003 for the Greens.
In 2018, Cecotti founded the political movement Pact for Autonomy,[7] an autonomism political party in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, which aims to protect all linguistic minorities in the region, and with which he ran again for the office of President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia at the 2018 regional election,[8] ranking fourth.[9]