Fidanza Carlo

Carlo Fidanza, born in 1976, is serving his third term in the European Parliament as the Head of Delegation of Fratelli d’Italia.

He began his political activity at a very young age in Milan. The political passion he nurtured since adolescence led him to the leadership of Italian right-wing youth movements and into public office. He was Group Leader of Alleanza Nazionale in the Council of Municipality 5 and in the Milan City Council, until his first election to the European Parliament in 2009 with Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL).

After joining the Popolo della Libertà in 2009, he ran in the European elections on June 6–7 and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the North-Western Italy constituency (Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, and Aosta Valley).

On December 20, 2012, he left PdL and became one of the founders of Fratelli d’Italia – Centrodestra Nazionale, the party promoted by Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, and Guido Crosetto. From November 2013 until the end of the term, he served as Head of Delegation of Fratelli d’Italia – Alleanza Nazionale in the European Parliament.

In the European elections of May 25, 2014, he ran again in the North-Western Italy constituency, receiving 12,738 personal votes on the Fratelli d’Italia–Alleanza Nazionale list, but was not elected as the party did not surpass the national threshold.

On March 4, 2018, he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the Fratelli d’Italia lists in the multi-member constituency Lombardy 1–03 (Milan).

He ran again in the June 2019 European elections and was elected in the North-Western Italy constituency. He returned as Head of Delegation of Fratelli d’Italia in the European Parliament, within the European Conservatives Group. He is Co-President of the Parliamentary Intergroup on Religious Freedom.

In the 2024 European elections, he ran in second position in the same constituency and was re-elected behind Giorgia Meloni with 50,753 votes.