Pierfrancesco Majorino

Pierfrancesco Majorino
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for North-West Italy
In office
2 July 2019 – 4 April 2023
Succeeded byMercedes Bresso
Personal details
Born (1973-05-14) 14 May 1973 (age 51)
Milan, Italy
Political partyDS (till 2007)
PD (since 2007)

Pierfrancesco Majorino (born 14 May 1973) is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament.

He served as assessor of social policies of Milan during Giuliano Pisapia's term as mayor, from 2011 to 2016,[1] as well as during the first mayoral term of Giuseppe Sala, from 2016[2] until his election as MEP in 2019.[3]

In 2019 he has been elected as a Member of the European Parliament.[4] He has since been serving on the Committee on Development. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.[5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Majorino is part of the Parliament's delegations to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity,[6] the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty,[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Trade Unions[8] and the URBAN Intergroup.[9]

He was a candidate for regional president in the 2023 Lombard regional election with the support of centre-left Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement.[10]

  1. ^ "La nuova Giunta di Milano". Il Post (in Italian). 10 June 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Milano, Sala presenta la giunta: metà è di Pisapia, per il Comune una manager Microsoft". La Repubblica (in Italian). 26 June 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Sala e il bilancio della giunta: "Nessun assessore se n'è andato o mandato via, un record"". MilanoToday (in Italian). 21 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Chi è stato eletto alle Europee". Il Post (in Italian). 28 May 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  5. ^ Members of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union European Parliament, press release of July 9, 2020.
  6. ^ Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity European Parliament.
  7. ^ Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty European Parliament.
  8. ^ Intergroup on Trade Unions European Parliament.
  9. ^ Members URBAN Intergroup.
  10. ^ "Elezioni regionali Lombardia: ecco chi sono i quattro candidati alla presidenza". Sky TG24 (in Italian). 18 January 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2023.