Education
Lyceum "Carlo Alberto di Novara"
Lyceum "Carlo Alberto di Novara"
After a degree in law, Cota joined the party in 1990. In 2000 he was elected to the Regional Council of Piedmont and was President of it until 2005. In 2001 he was elected regional secretary of Lega Nord Piemont.
After having served as Under-Secretary of Productive Activities in Berlusconi II Cabinet (since the end of December 2004) and later in Berlusconi III Cabinet, he was first elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2006. Re-elected in 2008, he was elected floor leader of Lega Nord in the Chamber.
On 30 March 2010 he was elected President of the Piedmont Region. On 17 June 2010 he resigned from Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Northern League is a federalist and regionalist political party in Italy.