Marco Taradash (born 19 May 1950, in

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) is an

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and journalist.

Biography

Marco Taradash was born in Livorno on 19 May 1950 from a Tuscan mother and a New Yorker father, who came to Italy with the allied army. The surname has a Ukrainian Jewish origin, but while the grandmother, Zweig, kept the Jewish faith, the paternal grandfather, who fled as a child with the family to the United States, later converted to Catholicism, and the father to Protestantism. In 1968 he enrolled in the youth organization of the

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, which he left in the mid-seventies, to join the Radical Party. In the 70s he also began his journalistic career and thanks to "Stampa e Regime", the press review of

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, he also obtained one of the most famous Italian journalistic prizes, the ''

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''. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1989 for the

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list, while in 1994 and in 1996 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for

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. He also served as Chairman of the

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Supervision Commission from 1994 to 1996. In the 2000s he conducts some television programs of political depth. In 2005 he founded, along with Peppino Calderisi and

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, the

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movement. In 2009 he was a candidate for mayor of Livorno with the support of the centre-right coalition but he was defeated by the outgoing mayor

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, candidate for the

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. In 2010 he was elected to the

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for

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, but in 2013 he left it to join the

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, a party led by

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. In the European elections of 2019 he is a candidate for the European Parliament with

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, in the central Italian constituency.+Europa, tra i capilista Bonino, Pizzarotti e Della Vedova. Polemica con il Pd sul "voto utile"
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References

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