Curzio Maltese (30 March 1959 – 26 February 2023) was an Italian journalist and politician.

Biography

Maltese was born in Milan and raised in

Sesto San Giovanni Sesto San Giovanni (; , ), locally referred to as just Sesto (), is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan, in the Italian region of Lombardy. It was awarded with the honorary title of ''città'' (city) by decree of 10 Apri ...

, and the brother of RAI sports journalist Cinzia Maltese. After working at factories and on independent radio, he became a journalist. Maltese started reporting on sports and news for the newspapers

La Gazzetta dello Sport (; English: "The Sports Gazette") is an Italian Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper dedicated to coverage of various sports. Founded in 1896, it is the most widely read daily newspaper of any type in Italy (in 2018). History and profile was fou ...

La Stampa (English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023. Distributed in Italy and other European nations, it is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Until the late 1970 ...

, and

La Notte ''La Notte'' (; ) is a 1961 drama film co-written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti. Filmed on location in Milan, the film depicts a single day and night in the lives of a ...

. He was a columnist for the newspaper

La Repubblica (; English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and l ...

and the weekly newspaper Il Sabato di Repubblica, where he also covered television and film criticism. In 2014, he ran for the European elections as top candidate in the northwest Italian constituency for

The Other Europe The Other Europe (), whose full name was The Other Europe with Tsipras (''L'Altra Europa con Tsipras'', AET), was a left-wing political organisation in Italy. It took part in the 2014 European Parliament election in support of Alexis Tsipras, the ...

list, in support of Alexīs Tsipras as President of the European Commission, obtaining 31,980 preferences. Despite being the first of the unelected on his list, he entered the European Parliament following the renunciation of

Moni Ovadia Salomone "Moni" Ovadia (born Solomon Ovadia on 16 April 1946) is a Bulgarian-born Italian Jewish actor, musician, singer, theatrical author and activism, activist. His theatrical performances recall the lost world of Eastern European Jewish cul ...

Europee 2014: Barbara Spinelli, meglio di no
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group. In 2015, he entered the national presidency of

Left Ecology Freedom Left Ecology Freedom (, SEL) was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party. The party's leader was Nichi Vendola, a former President of Apulia. On 17 December 201 ...

, the party led by

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. In 2017, he was on the promoting committee of the

Italian Left Italian Left (, SI) is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), dissid ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maltese, Curzio 1959 births 2023 deaths MEPs for Italy 2014–2019 Politicians from Milan The Other Europe MEPs Left Ecology Freedom politicians Italian Left politicians University of Milan alumni Journalists from Milan Italian sports journalists La Repubblica people