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Toni Cancian

Italian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ949306 ↗
Source-derived summary

Antonio "Toni" Cancian (Mareno di Piave, 2 July 1951) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur from Veneto.

A long-time Christian Democrat active in local government, Cancian was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 1992 general election. After 15 years out of active politics, he stood in the 2009 European Parliament election for The People of Freedom and was elected with over 50,000 preference votes. In 2013 he joined the New Centre-Right party and in the 2014 European Parliament election he was not re-elected.

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External links

"7th legislature: Antonio CANCIAN: MEPS: European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. 2 July 1951. Retrieved 21 July 2023.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Toni Cancian” is italian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Toni, Cancian and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1992, 2009, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-07-02. For this dossier, Toni, Cancian and Italian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “italian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q949306. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1992, 2009 and 2013.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Toni Cancian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.