Fabio De Masi | |
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 Fabio De Masi in 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament forGermany | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 23 October 2017 | |
| Succeeded by | Martin Schirdewan |
| Member of theBundestag forHamburg | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Constituency | The Left Party List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Fabio Valeriano Lanfranco De Masi (1980-03-07)7 March 1980 (age 45) |
| Citizenship | Germany • Italy |
| Political party | BSW (2024–present) |
| Other political affiliations | The Left (until 2022) Independent (2022–2024) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town |
| Website | www |
Fabio Valeriano Lanfranco De Masi (born 7 March 1980) is a German-Italian politician. He was a member of the GermanBundestag from 2017 to 2021 and was amember of the European Parliament (MEP) fromGermany from 1 July 2014 to 23 October 2017. Until September 2022 he was a member ofThe Left Party, part of theEuropean United Left–Nordic Green Left.[1] He joined theSahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) on 8 January 2024.
De Masi was born in Groß-Gerau[2] to a German language teacher and an Italian-born trade unionist. His Italian grandfather fought as a Partisan inPiedmont to liberate Italy fromFascism.[3] De Masi's father was a football amateur withSSC Napoli.[4]
In the2014 European elections, De Masi became aMember of the European Parliament. During his time in office, he served on theCommittee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (TAXE 2).[5][6] In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the Parliament'sDelegation for relations with South Africa.
De Masi was a member of the GermanBundestag since the2017 elections, representingHamburg. In parliament, he was serving on the Finance Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group, and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Southern African States. Since 2019, he was also a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly. In March 2021 De Masi said that he will not run for the Bundestag in the2021 German federal election.[7]
Di Masi has long been a companion of the political figureSahra Wagenknecht. He founded the “Get Up” ("Aufstehen") movement together with Wagenknecht in 2018.[8]
On 13 September 2022, De Masi announced that he left The Left Party, stating that he would not want anymore to be taken into responsibility for the blatant failure of the relevant actors in this party.“[9][10]
He joined the new populist party of his former boss Sahra Wagenknecht. De Masi appeared at the newly formed party's press conference on January 8, 2024, and indicated that he was seeking political office with the BSW at2024 European Parliament election.[8][11] Together withThomas Geisel, he wants to become the party's top candidate.[12]
While other members abandoned the Left Party after Wagenknecht's call to end sanctions against Russia,[13] de Masi followed her and continues to call for "freezing" the war[14] and states that Russia's aggression was a reaction to a NATO expansion[15] or that a peace treaty would have been possible in 2023.[16] He has previously also characterized the downing ofMH 17 in 2014 as a "crash", rather than a shooting down.[17]
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