Claudio Fava (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician and writer. He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of

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(

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). He was until 2009

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for the Italian Islands with the Democratic Left (SD), part of the

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and is vice-chair of the

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. He was a substitute for the

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and the

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and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Biography

Fava was born in Catania,

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. His father

Giuseppe Fava Giuseppe "Pippo" Fava (; 15 September 1925 in Palazzolo Acreide – 5 January 1984 in Catania) was an Italian writer, investigative journalist, playwright, and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia. He was the founder of the '' I Sici ...

, founder of the '' I Siciliani ''monthly magazine, for which Claudio Fava also worked, was killed by

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on 5 January 1984. A graduate in

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(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, he served as member of the

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. Later, he was the Regional Secretary of the

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of t ...

(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 General Elections in 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

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. The report criticized the governments of

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and

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for failing to cooperate with investigations, and also chastised several top EU official

In May 2007 at the 4th National Congress of the

(DS), he supported the motion put to the congress by

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that opposed the formation of a larger center-left party, the

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and after its defeat and the formation of the PD 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

after the electoral defeat of ''Sinistra Arcobaleno'' ( Rainbow Left) of which Sinistra Democratica was a constituent part. He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of ''Sinistra Ecologia Libertà'' (

). 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

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in 1978 that won the

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in 2001 for the best script. In December 2015, a new parliamentary group was created in the

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(

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), the Sinistra Italiana (

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). Sinistra e Libertà (

) 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

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remaining in the parliamentary group. In response to this re-configuration, on 25 February 2017, 43 MPs, including Fava, created Article 1 – Democratic and Progressive Movement ( it, Articolo 1 – Movimento Democratico e Progressista, MDP), as a left-wing interest group supporting the

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, but being independent from the

. Fellow prominent members include the former party chairman and candidate for the 2013 general election Pierluigi Bersani and the former House Majority Leader

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. 16 senators also joined the group. On 4 September 2017, he was chosen as the candidate of the left for the presidency of the Sicilian Region in 2017, supported by SI, MDP, as well as Possible, the

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, and other minor left-wing parties. The

, on the other hand, supports Fabrizio Micari, along with Popular Alternative and other centrist parties. A recent poll b
Euromedia
gives Fava 9.5% and Micari a mere 14%, while the conservative candidate and the candidate of the

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poll ahead at around 35%.

References

External links

Website of Sinistra Ecologia LibertaWeb page on europarl.it
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Biography

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