Claudio Fava
Claudio Fava | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994 | |
| In office 15 March 2013 – 9 January 2018 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Italian Islands | |
| In office 20 July 1999 – 13 July 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Giovanni Giuseppe Claudio Fava 15 April 1957 Catania, Italy |
| Political party | The Network (1991-1994) ID (1994-1999) DS (1999-2007) SD (2007-2010) SEL (2010-2014) Art1 (since 2017) |
| Alma mater | University of Catania |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Claudio Fava (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician and writer.Committee on Regional Development.
He was a substitute for the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
.
Biography
Fava was born in
I Siciliani monthly magazine, for which Claudio Fava also worked, was killed by the Mafia
on 5 January 1984.
A graduate in
Chamber of Deputies of Italy. Later, he was the Regional Secretary of the Democrats of the Left
(DS) in Sicily (1999–2001), and became a member of the national executive of the DS in 1999.
On 5 November 2006, he worked as an International Observer of the
CIA secret prisons. The report criticized the governments of Poland and Romania for failing to cooperate with investigations, and also chastised several top EU officials [1]
.
In May 2007 at the 4th National Congress of the
Rainbow Left
) of which Sinistra Democratica was a constituent part.
He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom).
In the European elections of 2009 he was a candidate for Sinistra e Libertà
but failed to get elected.
He is also a writer and a scenarist. He co-wrote the screenplay of the movie One hundred steps (I cento passi) about the life and death of Antimafia activist Giuseppe Impastato in 1978 that won the Venice Film Festival in 2001 for the best script.
In December 2015, a new parliamentary group was created in the
Camera dei deputati (Chamber of Deputies), the Sinistra Italiana (Italian Left). Sinistra e Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom) was officially dissolved on 17 December 2016, while Sinistra Italiana became a party on 19 February 2017, with only 13 of the 37 initially elected with SEL in the 2013 general election
remaining in the parliamentary group.
In response to this re-configuration, on 25 February 2017, 43 MPs, including Fava, created Pierluigi Bersani and the former House Majority Leader Roberto Speranza
. 16 senators also joined the group.
On 4 September 2017, he was chosen as the candidate of the left for the
Possible, the Communist Refoundation Party, Civil Action, Italian Communist Party, and other minor left-wing parties. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, supports Fabrizio Micari, along with Popular Alternative and other centrist parties. A recent poll by Euromedia[permanent dead link] gives Fava 9.5% and Micari a mere 14%, while the conservative candidate and the candidate of the Five Star Movement
poll ahead at around 35%.
See also
- 2004 European Parliament election in Italy
- 2009 European Parliament election in Italy
- Extraordinary rendition investigations by the Italian government
- Rendition aircraft
References
- ^ "Prima che la Notte - con Claudio Fava". www.centrobalducci.org (in Italian). Retrieved 1 April 2022.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Giovanni Claudio Fava.
- Website of Sinistra Ecologia Liberta
- Web page on europarl.it
- Page with bibliography
- Personal profile of Claudio Fava in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Italian)
- Who is Who in Italy
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