Ignazio Corrao
Ignazio Corrao is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement and he is a member of the European Parliament since 2014.
Corrao was born in Rome and grew up in Alcamo, Sicily.
He is a member of the European Parliament Committee on Development and the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
In these Committees he represents the positions of his political group: the EFD.
The EFD group politics are characterized by Euroscepticism, National-Conservatorisms and Right-Wing populism.Education and Career
He consecuted Law degree from the University of Palermo and qualified as a lawyer at the Italian Court of Appeal.
In the 2014 European Parliament election he was elected to the European Parliament in the Italian Islands, getting the highest number of preference votes among the Five Star Movement candidates.
In June he was elected the first leader of the Five Star Movement's group in Parliament, becoming one of the youngest representatives to get this role in the European Union.
Considered as one of first political exponents of the “Erasmus generation”, he has gained various experiences of work, study and volunteering abroad at a very young age.
