Curzio Maltese
Maltese in 2021
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019
Constituency	North-West Italy
Personal details
Born	(1959-03-30)30 March 1959 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died	26 February 2023(2023-02-26) (aged 63) Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Political party	Italian Left
Alma mater	University of Milan
Profession	Journalist

Curzio Maltese (30 March 1959 – 26 February 2023)^[1] was an Italian journalist and politician.

Biography

Maltese was born in Milan and raised in Sesto San Giovanni, and the brother of RAI sports journalist Cinzia Maltese. After working at factories and on independent radio, he became a journalist.^{[citation needed]}

Maltese started reporting on sports and news for the newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, La Stampa, and La Notte.^{[citation needed]} He was a columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica and the weekly newspaper Il Sabato di Repubblica, where he also covered television and film criticism.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} Despite being the first of the unelected on his list, he entered the European Parliament following the renunciation of Moni Ovadia^[2] and sat in the GUE/NGL group.^{[citation needed]} In 2015, he entered the national presidency of Left Ecology Freedom, the party led by Nichi Vendola.^{[citation needed]} In 2017, he was on the promoting committee of the Italian Left.^{[citation needed]}