After failing to be elected in 2006, he was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies in the
2008 general election from the ranks of the
People of Freedom (PdL) in the
Piedmont 2 constituency. In December 2012 he left the PdL and joined
Brothers of Italy (FdI). In the
2013 general election, he was re-elected deputy in the same constituency in the lists of
Brothers of Italy. In the
2018 general election, he was elected to the
Senate of the Republic in the uninominal constituency of Novara supported by the center-right coalition (FdI's share), outperforming Fabio Barbieri of the M5S (23.90 percent) and
Elena Ferrara of the center-left (23.35 percent). During the
18th legislature, he served as vice-chairman of the 13th Senate Standing Committee (Land, Environment and Environmental Heritage). In the
general elections of 2022 he was elected to the Senate of the Republic in the uninominal
Piedmont - 03 (Novara) constituency with 52.01%, more than twice as much as his center-left opponent
Rossano Pirovano (25.32%) and
Action – Italia Viva candidate
Roberto Cataldo Faggiano (8.45%). On October 19, 2022, with 110 votes he was elected Senior Quaestor of the Senate having obtained a majority of the votes of the assembly. ==References==