Cosmo Maciocia
Cosmo Maciocia is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec.
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 [Quebec general election|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 Municipal [reorganization in Quebec|province-wide municipal merger of 2001], Maciocia gave up his seat and ran as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island [Citizens Union] in the district of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The party is now known as Union Montréal.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 2009 [Montreal municipal election|Montreal municipal election], but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Joe Magri.