Curzio Maltese
Curzio Maltese is an Italian journalist and politician.Biography
He was born in Milan and raised in Sesto San Giovanni, brother of RAI sports journalist Cinzia Maltese, who died prematurely in 2002. After a period between factories and independent radio, he became a journalist.
He started dealing with sports and news for the newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, La Stampa and La Notte. He was a columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica and the weekly newspaper Il Sabato di Repubblica, where he also dealt with television and film criticism.
In 2014 he ran for the European elections as top candidate in the Northwest Italian constituency for The Other Europe 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 and sat in the GUE/NGL group. In 2015 he entered the national presidency of Left Ecology Freedom, the party led by Nichi Vendola. In 2017 he was on the promoting committee of the Italian Left.
