Pierfrancesco Majorino (born 14 May 1973) is an Italian politician and former

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. He served as assessor of social policies of

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during

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's term as mayor, from 2011 to 2016, as well as during the first mayoral term of

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, from 2016 until his election as MEP in 2019. In

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he has been elected as a

. He has since been serving on the

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. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union. 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

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. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty, the European Parliament Intergroup on Trade Unions and the URBAN Intergroup. He was a candidate for regional president in the

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with the support of

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and the

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