Claudio Martelli | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 2 February 1991 – 10 February 1993 | |
| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti Giuliano Amato |
| Preceded by | Giuliano Vassalli |
| Succeeded by | Giovanni Conso |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Italy | |
| In office 22 July 1989 – 28 June 1992 | |
| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti |
| Preceded by | Gianni De Michelis |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Tatarella Roberto Maroni |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004 | |
| Constituency | Central Italy |
| In office 24 July 1984 – 24 July 1989 | |
| Constituency | Central Italy |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 20 June 1979 – 14 April 1994 | |
| Constituency | Mantua (1979–1987; 1992–1994) Palermo (1987–1992) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 September 1943 Gessate, Italy |
| Political party | PRI (1956–1966) PSI (1966–1994) SDI (1998–2000) LS (2000–2001) NPSI (2001–2005) |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Spouse | |
| Alma mater | University of Milan |
| Occupation | Politician, university professor, journalist |
Claudio Martelli (born 24 September 1943) is an Italian former politician and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the former Italian Socialist Party (PSI) newspaper Avanti! The right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the PSI leader and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987, Martelli was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1989 to 1992 and Minister of Justice from 1991 to 1993, when he was implicated in the Tangentopoli scandal and left politics.
Martelli returned to politics in 1997 and re-founded Mondoperaio, a PSI-affiliated cultural magazine, and joined the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI), becoming in 1999 a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a position he first held with the PSI between 1984 and 1989. In 2001, he joined the centre-right coalition-affiliated New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI) and unsuccessfully ran for the Chamber of Deputies, a position he also held with the PSI from 1979 to 1994.
After again ending his party politics career in 2005, Martelli became a television presenter and re-launched Avanti!