Claudio Fava

Claudio Fava

Giovanni Claudio Fava (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician .He is currently the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom).He was until 2009 Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democratic Left (SD), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.

He was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Fisheries and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Biography

Fava was born in Catania, Sicily. His father Giuseppe Fava, founder of the I Siciliani monthly magazine – for which Claudio Fava also worked – was killed by the Mafia on 5 January 1984.

A graduate in law (1980) and a qualified journalist (since 1982). He was one of the founders of La Rete and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the Sicilian Regional Assembly in 1991. In 1992-1994 served as member of the 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 Nicaraguan Elections 2006 for the European Union.

Also in November 2006, he led the European parliament's special investigation into the role of European Union member states in the operation of 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 IV National Congress of the Democrats of the Left (DS) he supported the motion put to the congress by Fabio Mussi and subsequently left the Democrats of the Left and joined Sinistra Democratica (Democratic Left). He became the National Coordinator of Sinistra Democratica on the resignation of Fabio Mussi after the electoral defeat of Sinistra Arcobaleno (Rainbow Left) of which Sinistra Democratica (Democratic Left) was a constituent part. He is currently 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 that won the Venice Film Festival in 2001 for the best script.

See also

• European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
• European Parliament election, 2009 (Italy)

External links

• Official website of Claudio Fava: www.claudiofava.it
• Website of Sinistra Ecologia Liberta
• Web page on europarl.it
• Page with bibliography
• European Parliament biography of Claudio Fava (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (Italian)
• Who is Who in Italy

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