# Claudio Fava
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{{short description|Italian politician (born 1957)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Claudio Fava
| image = Claudio Fava daticamera.jpg
| order = [Member of the Chamber of Deputies](/source/Italian_Chamber_of_Deputies)
| term_start1 = 23 April 1992
| term_end1 = 14 April 1994
| constituency1 = [Catania](/source/Catania)
| term_start = 15 March 2013
| term_end = 9 January 2018
| constituency = [Lombardy](/source/Lombardy)
| order2 = [Member of the European Parliament](/source/Member_of_the_European_Parliament)
for [Italian Islands](/source/Italian_Islands_(European_Parliament_constituency))
| term_start2 = 20 July 1999
| term_end2 = 13 July 2009
| birth_name = Giovanni Giuseppe Claudio Fava
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1957|4|15}}
| birth_place = [Catania](/source/Catania), Italy
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [The Network](/source/The_Network_(political_party)) (1991-1994)
[ID](/source/Democratic_Italy) (1994-1999)
[DS](/source/Democrats_of_the_Left) (1999-2007)
[SD](/source/Democratic_Left_(Italy)) (2007-2010)
[SEL](/source/Left_Ecology_Freedom) (2010-2014)
[Art1](/source/Article_One_(political_party)) (since 2017)
| alma_mater = [University of Catania](/source/University_of_Catania)
| occupation = Journalist
}}
'''Claudio Fava''' (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician and writer.[{{Cite web |title=Prima che la Notte - con Claudio Fava |url=http://www.centrobalducci.org/easyne2/LYT.aspx?Code=BALD&IDLYT=3975&ST=SQL&SQL=ID_Documento=2228 |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.centrobalducci.org |language=it}}] He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of [Sinistra Ecologia Libertà](/source/Sinistra_Ecologia_Libert%C3%A0) ([Left Ecology Freedom](/source/Left_Ecology_Freedom)). He was until 2009 [Member of the European Parliament](/source/Member_of_the_European_Parliament) for [the Italian Islands](/source/European_Parliament_Election%2C_2004_(Italy)) with the [Democratic Left](/source/Democratic_Left_(Italy)) (SD), part of the [Socialist Group](/source/Party_of_European_Socialists) and is vice-chair of the [European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament)'s [Committee on Regional Development](/source/Committee_on_Regional_Development).
He was a substitute for the [Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs](/source/Committee_on_Civil_Liberties%2C_Justice_and_Home_Affairs) and the [Committee on Fisheries](/source/Committee_on_Fisheries) and the [Committee on Foreign Affairs](/source/Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs_(EU)).
==Biography==
Fava was born in [Catania](/source/Catania), [Sicily](/source/Sicily). His father [Giuseppe Fava](/source/Giuseppe_Fava), founder of the ''[I Siciliani](/source/I_Siciliani) ''monthly magazine, for which Claudio Fava also worked, was killed by [the Mafia](/source/Sicilian_Mafia) on 5 January 1984.
A graduate in [law](/source/law) (1980) and a qualified journalist (since 1982), he was one of the founders of [La Rete](/source/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 [Chamber of Deputies of Italy](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Italy). Later, he was the Regional Secretary of the [Democrats of the Left](/source/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 General Elections in 2006](/source/2006_Nicaraguan_general_election) for the European Union. Also in November 2006, he led the European parliament's special investigation into the role of [European Union member states](/source/European_Union_member_states) in the operation of [CIA secret prisons](/source/CIA_secret_prisons). The report criticized the governments of [Poland](/source/Poland) and [Romania](/source/Romania) for failing to cooperate with investigations, and also chastised several top EU officials [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A6-2006-0213+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN].
In May 2007 at the 4th National Congress of the [Democrats of the Left](/source/Democrats_of_the_Left) (DS), he supported the motion put to the congress by [Fabio Mussi](/source/Fabio_Mussi) that opposed the formation of a larger center-left party, the [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(Italy)), and after the motion's defeat and the formation of the PD subsequently left the Democrats of the Left and joined ''Sinistra Democratica'' ([Democratic Left](/source/Democratic_Left_(Italy))). He became the National Coordinator of Sinistra Democratica on the resignation of [Fabio Mussi](/source/Fabio_Mussi) after the electoral defeat of ''Sinistra Arcobaleno'' ([Rainbow Left](/source/Rainbow_Left)) of which Sinistra Democratica was a constituent part.
He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of ''Sinistra Ecologia Libertà'' ([Left Ecology Freedom](/source/Left_Ecology_Freedom)).
In the European elections of 2009 he was a candidate for [Sinistra e Libertà](/source/Sinistra_e_Libert%C3%A0) but failed to get elected.
He is also a writer and a [scenarist](/source/scenarist). He co-wrote the screenplay of the movie ''One hundred steps'' (''[I cento passi](/source/I_cento_passi)'') about the life and death of Antimafia activist [Giuseppe Impastato](/source/Giuseppe_Impastato) in 1978 that won the [Venice Film Festival](/source/Venice_Film_Festival) in 2001 for the best script.
In December 2015, a new parliamentary group was created in the [Camera dei deputati](/source/Camera_dei_deputati) ([Chamber of Deputies](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies)), the Sinistra Italiana ([Italian Left](/source/Italian_Left)). Sinistra e Libertà ([Left Ecology Freedom](/source/Left_Ecology_Freedom)) 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 [2013 general election](/source/2013_Italian_general_election) 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](/source/Article_1_%E2%80%93_Democratic_and_Progressive_Movement) ({{langx|it|Articolo 1 – Movimento Democratico e Progressista}}, MDP), as a left-wing interest group supporting the [Gentiloni Cabinet](/source/Gentiloni_Cabinet), but being independent from the [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(Italy)). Fellow prominent members include the former party chairman and candidate for the 2013 general election [Pierluigi Bersani](/source/Pierluigi_Bersani) and the former House Majority Leader [Roberto Speranza](/source/Roberto_Speranza). 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](/source/2017_Sicilian_regional_election), supported by SI, MDP, as well as [Possible](/source/Possible_(Italy)), the [Communist Refoundation Party](/source/Communist_Refoundation_Party), [Civil Action](/source/Civil_Revolution), [Italian Communist Party](/source/Italian_Communist_Party_(2016)), and other minor left-wing parties. The [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(Italy)), on the other hand, supports Fabrizio Micari, along with [Popular Alternative](/source/Popular_Alternative) and other centrist parties. A recent poll by [http://www.sondaggipoliticoelettorali.it/StampaSondaggio.aspx Euromedia]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} gives Fava 9.5% and Micari 14%, with the conservative candidate and the candidate of the [Five Star Movement](/source/Five_Star_Movement) poll ahead at around 35%.
==Electoral history==
{|class=wikitable style="width:76%; border:1px #AAAAFF solid"
|-
! width=12%|Election
! width=25%|House
! width=35%|Constituency
! width=5% colspan="2"|Party
! width=12%|Votes
! width=16%|Result
! width=7%|Notes
|-
! [1992](/source/1992_Italian_general_election)
| [Chamber of Deputies](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies_(Italy))
| [Catania–Messina–Siracusa–Ragusa–Enna](/source/List_of_Italian_constituencies_(1946%E2%80%931994))
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Network (political party)}}" |
| [LR](/source/The_Network_(political_party))
| 44,642
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=C&dtel=05/04/1992&tpa=I&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=S&ms=S&ne1=28&lev1=28]
|-
! [1994](/source/1994_Italian_general_election)
| [Chamber of Deputies](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies_(Italy))
| [Catania – Picanello](/source/Catania)
| bgcolor="{{party color|The Network (political party)}}" |
| [LR](/source/The_Network_(political_party))
| 26,477
| {{cross|15}} '''Not elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=C&dtel=27/03/1994&tpa=I&tpe=L&lev0=0&levsut0=0&lev1=25&levsut1=1&levsut2=2&ne1=25&es0=S&es1=S&es2=S&ms=S&ne2=2512&lev2=12&unipro=uni]
|-
! [1996](/source/1996_Italian_general_election)
| [Chamber of Deputies](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies_(Italy))
| [Molfetta](/source/Molfetta)
| bgcolor="lightblue" |
| [ID](/source/Democratic_Italy)
| 25,157
| {{cross|15}} '''Not elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=C&dtel=21/04/1996&tpa=I&tpe=L&lev0=0&levsut0=0&lev1=21&levsut1=1&levsut2=2&ne1=21&es0=S&es1=S&es2=S&ms=S&ne2=2125&lev2=25&unipro=uni]
|-
! [1999](/source/1999_European_Parliament_election_in_Italy)
| [European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament)
| [Italian Islands](/source/Italian_Islands_(European_Parliament_constituency))
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democrats of the Left}}" |
| [DS](/source/Democrats_of_the_Left)
| 144,839
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=E&dtel=13/06/1999&tpa=Y&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=N&ms=S&ne1=5&lev1=5]
|-
! [2004](/source/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_Italy)
| [European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament)
| [Italian Islands](/source/Italian_Islands_(European_Parliament_constituency))
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democrats of the Left}}" |
| [DS](/source/Democrats_of_the_Left)
| 222,516
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=E&dtel=12/06/2004&tpa=Y&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=N&ms=S&ne1=5&lev1=5]
|-
! [2008](/source/2008_Italian_general_election)
| [Senate of the Republic](/source/Senate_of_the_Republic_(Italy))
| [Sicily](/source/Sicily)
| bgcolor="#DC241f" |
| [SA](/source/The_Left_%E2%80%93_The_Rainbow)
| –
| {{cross|15}} '''Not elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=S&dtel=13/04/2008&tpa=I&tpe=R&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=S&ms=S&ne1=19&lev1=19]
|-
! [2009](/source/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_Italy)
| [European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament)
| [Central Italy](/source/Central_Italy_(European_Parliament_constituency))
| bgcolor="{{party color|Left Ecology Freedom}}" |
| [SEL](/source/Left_Ecology_Freedom)
| 25,586
| {{cross|15}} '''Not elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=E&dtel=07/06/2009&tpa=Y&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=N&ms=S&ne1=3&lev1=3]
|-
! [2013](/source/2013_Italian_general_election)
| [Chamber of Deputies](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies_(Italy))
| [Lombardy](/source/Lombardy)
| bgcolor="{{party color|Left Ecology Freedom}}" |
| [SEL](/source/Left_Ecology_Freedom)
| –
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
| [https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=C&dtel=24/02/2013&tpa=I&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=S&ms=S&ne1=3&lev1=3]
|-
|}
==See also==
*[2004 European Parliament election in Italy](/source/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_Italy)
*[2009 European Parliament election in Italy](/source/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_Italy)
*[Extraordinary rendition investigations by the Italian government](/source/Extraordinary_rendition)
*[Rendition aircraft](/source/Rendition_aircraft)
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category|Giovanni Claudio Fava}}
*[https://www.sinistraecologialiberta.it/ Website of Sinistra Ecologia Liberta]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050429151141/http://www.europarl.it/europarlamentari/5leg.asp?id=80 Web page on europarl.it]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041227031922/http://www.confinensemble.it/Italiano/collaborazClaudiofava.htm Page with bibliography]
*{{MEP}}
*{{Declaration of financial interests of the 6th term|4469_05-07-2004.PDF|it}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312095827/http://www.whoswho-sutter.com/cgi-bin/wrapper/whoswho-search2?WBWWWCYIWW Who is Who in Italy]
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Category:Members of the Sicilian Regional Assembly
Category:The Network (political party) politicians
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