Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Fabio Massimo Castaldo MEP is an Italian politician who has served in the European Parliament since 2014.

Fabio Massimo Castaldo
MEP
Castaldo in 2016
Assumed office
2 July 2014
Vice-President of the European Parliament
In office
15 November 2017 – 18 January 2022
President
Personal details
NationalityItalian
Political partyFive Star Movement
Alma materUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata
OccupationPracticing lawyer

On 15 November 2017 he was elected vice-president of the European Parliament to replace Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, becoming the youngest vice president in the history of the institution.[1]

He was re-elected MEP in the 2019 EP election.[2]

On 3 July 2019 he was re-elected Vice-President of the European Parliament, running as an independent with the support of over 40 MEPs belonging to various political groups, as the European delegation of the Five Star Movement belonged to the technical grouping of the Non-Inscrits. His election represents the second success of an independent following the 2009 election of Edward McMillan-Scott.[3]

References
  1. "Castaldo (M5s) eletto vipresidente Pe - Europa". ANSA.it. 15 November 2017.
  2. "Chi è stato eletto alle Europee". Il Post. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  3. Was elected as MEP with the British Conservatives and sat with ECR. However successfully stood as an independent candidate against ECR's official candidate and was expelled. Although he joined the Liberal Democrats in the UK, he sat as a Non-attached Member in the European Parliament.


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