| Office 2 | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
|---|---|
| Term start 2 | 23 April 1992 |
| Term end 2 | 29 May 2001 |
| Office 3 | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term start 3 | 25 July 1989 |
| Term end 3 | 19 July 1994 |
| Constituency 3 | North-West Italy |
| Birth date | 19 May 1950 (age 76) |
| Birth place | Livorno, Italy |
| Profession | Politician, journalist |
| Party | PR (1977–1989) FI (1994–2000) RL (2005–2009) PdL (2009–2013) NCD (2013–2015) +Eu (since 2018) |
Marco Taradash (born 19 May 1950) is an Italian politician 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 his grandmother, Zweig, kept the Jewish faith, his paternal grandfather, who fled as a child with the family to the United States, later converted to Catholicism, and his father to Protestantism.
In 1968 he enrolled in the youth organization of the Italian Liberal Party, 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 Radio Radicale, he also obtained one of the most famous Italian journalistic prizes, the Premiolino.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 1989 for the Antiprohibitionists on Drugs list, while in 1994 and in 1996 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia. He also served as Chairman of the RAI Supervision Commission from 1994 to 1996.[1]
In the 2000s he conducts some television programs of political depth. In 2005 he founded, along with Peppino Calderisi and Benedetto Della Vedova, the Liberal Reformers movement.[2]
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 Alessandro Cosimi, candidate for the Democratic Party.
In 2010, he was elected to the Regional Council of Tuscany for The People of Freedom but in 2013 left it to join the New Centre-Right, a party led by Angelino Alfano.[3]
In the European elections of 2019, he was a candidate for the European Parliament with More Europe, in the central Italian constituency.[4]
Electoral history
| Election | House | Constituency | Party | Votes | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Chamber of Deputies | Verona–Padua–Vicenza–Rovigo | PR | 1,099 | Not elected | |
| 1989 | European Parliament | North-West Italy | LAD | 7,436 | Elected | |
| 1992 | Chamber of Deputies | Milan–Pavia | LP | 4,131 | Elected | |
| 1994 | Chamber of Deputies | San Giuliano Milanese | LP | 39,848 | Elected | |
| 1994 | European Parliament | North-West Italy | LP | 23,037 | Not elected | |
| 1996 | Chamber of Deputies | Cava de' Tirreni | FI | 37,509 | Elected | |
| 2019 | European Parliament | Central Italy | +E | 6,566 | Not elected | |
| 2024 | European Parliament | North-West Italy | SUE | 5,476 | Not elected | |
References
- ^ "Marco Taradash, il radicale folgorato dal Cavaliere". Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ RADICALI DISSIDENTI Arrivano i Riformatori «Una scelta liberale
- ^ "Marco Taradash". Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ +Europa, tra i capilista Bonino, Pizzarotti e Della Vedova. Polemica con il Pd sul "voto utile"
External links
- "Taradash Marco". Anagrafe degli Amministratori locali e regionali. Ministry of the Interior