Committees

Role	Committee	Start	End
Substitute of	Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs	2024/07/19
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2024/07/19
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2024/07/19

Delegations

Role	Delegation	Start	End
Substitute of	Delegation for relations with Palestine	2024/09/19
Substitute of	Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary Committee	2024/09/19
Member of	Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean	2024/09/19
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries	2024/10/03

Contact

Facebook

• https://www.facebook.com/leolucaorlandopalermo/

Instagram

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Email

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Brussels

• Phone: 003222845397
• Fax:
• Office: Bât. ALTIERO SPINELLI 07F143
• Full Address
  • City: Bruxelles/Brussel
  • Zip: B-1047
  • Street: 60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

Strasbourg

• Phone: 0033388175397
• Fax:
• Office: Bât. SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA G04043
• Full Address
  • City: Strasbourg
  • Zip: CS 91024 - F-67070
  • Street: 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman

Rapporteur

Type	Dossier	Committee	Title
Responsible Committee	1998/2207(COS)	REGI Regional Development	Sustainable urban development: a framework for action, follow-up of COM(1997)0197
Responsible Committee	1998/0909(CNS)	LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs	Fight against organized crime: tracing, seizure, confiscation of proceeds from crime
Responsible Committee	1997/0916(CNS)	LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs	Fight against organized crime: exchanges, training and cooperation. 1998-2002 FALCONE programme
Responsible Committee	1997/0913(CNS)	LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs	Fight against organised crime: criminal offence to participate in a criminal organisation
Responsible Committee	1997/0912(CNS)	LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs	Fight against organized crime: evaluation of national application of international undertakings

Activities

Stats

By types

Amendments (10)
Institutional motions (4)
Oral questions (1)
Plenary speeches (8)
Written questions (11)

By dossiers

Count	Dossier Reference	Title
10	2024/0086(COD)	Macro-financial assistance to Jordan
1	2024/2803(RSP)	Resolution on the deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”
1	2024/2810(RSP)	Resolution on the situation in Venezuela
1	2024/2856(RSP)	Resolution on the case of Bülent Mumay in Türkiye

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Born

1947/08/01 - Palermo

Education (qualifications and diplomas)

• 1960-1965 : Istituto Gonzaga – School-leaving certificate in classical subjects (best-performing student in Italy) – Nominated for the ‘Alfiere del lavoro’ prize
• 1965-1969 : Palermo University – Master of Laws (cum laude)
• 1969-1970 : Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
• 1970 : Heidelberg University

Professional career

• 1971 : Bar exam
• 1974 : Palermo University – Lecturer in regional public law
• 1979 : Court of Cassation lawyer

Political career

• 1985-1987 : Head of a five-party coalition (DC, PSI, PRI, PLI, PSDI)
• 1987-1990 : Head of a council run by a grand coalition, known as the ‘esacolore’, formed by DC, the Independent Left, the Greens, the Social Democrats, PCI and the Catholic civic list ‘Città per l'Uomo’
• 1991-1999 : Founder of the Network (political party)
• 2006-2008 : Spokesperson for Italy of Values
• 2018 : Democratic Party
• 2024 : Independent candidate for the Green-Left Alliance as lead candidate for the island constituency
• 1978-1980 : Legal advisor to the President of Sicily Region, Piersanti Mattarella
• 1980-1985 : Municipal councillor for Palermo
• 1984 : Alderman for decentralisation
• 1985-1990 : Mayor of Palermo
• 1993-1997 : Mayor of Palermo
• 1997-2000 : Mayor of Palermo
• 2012-2017 : Mayor of Palermo
• 2017-2022 : Mayor of Palermo
• 2016 : President of Palermo Metropolitan Council
• 1991 : Regional councillor
• 2001-2006 : Regional councillor
• 1992-1993 : Member of Parliament
• 2008-2012 : Member of Parliament – Chair of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into healthcare failings and regional health deficits
• 1994-1999 : MEP
• 2024 : MEP

Honours

• Silver star for sporting merit (2010)
• Gold star for sporting merit (2014)
• Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (Spain 1998)
• Knight of the Order of Saint Nicholas (Georgia 2013)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany 2022)
• Honorary doctorate (honoris causa) in German philosophy, awarded by the University of Trier
• Honorary citizen of Chengdu (People’s Republic of China), Los Angeles County (United States), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Montpellier (France)
• Title of honorary professor at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Tbilisi (Georgia)
• ‘Goethe Medal’, awarded by the Goethe Institute in 1999 for his ‘contribution to the promotion of the German language throughout the world and to international cultural relations’
• ‘Puškin Prize’, awarded in Saint Petersburg in 2001 for efforts to make Palermo the ‘global capital of theatre’
• ‘Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize’, awarded in 2005 by the city of Osnabrück for his ‘commitment to peace, humanity and freedom’
• ‘Konrad Adenauer prize’, awarded in Cologne in 2008
• ‘National German Sustainability Award’, awarded in 2013 ‘for his moral courage in the brave fight against Mafia-style organisations’
• ‘Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award’, awarded in 2017 ‘for his tireless efforts to defend the rights of migrants and create a safer city by fighting organised crime’
• ‘Heinrich Heine Prize’, awarded in 2018 by the city of Düsseldorf ‘to figures who, through their work, spread the idea that all people belong to the same group: humankind’; first Italian to receive this honour
• In 2018, he was awarded the ‘keys to the city’ of Medellín (Colombia) by the city’s mayor, in recognition of his ‘commitment to combating unlawful activities through civil efforts and by building a culture of lawfulness’.
• Since 2019, he has been the president of Cinemed, the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema in Montpellier.
• In 2020, the Monarchy of the Netherlands presented him with the ‘Freedom From Fear Award’, awarded by the Roosevelt Foundation in Middelburg and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York.
• In 2020, he was awarded the ‘Potsdam European Culture Prize’ for lifetime achievements in fighting the Mafia and racism through culture.
• In December 2020, the President of Portugal presented him with the Council of Europe’s ‘North-South Prize’ for his commitment to defending human rights.

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