Mauro Laus

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]