Ruggero Razza | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Termstart: | 16 July 2024 |
Constituency: | Italian Islands |
Birth Date: | df=y 23 September 1980 |
Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
Birthname: | Ruggero Benedetto Italo Razza |
Party: | Brothers of Italy |
Otherparty: | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
Ruggero Benedetto Italo Razza (born 23 September 1980) is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]
Razza was born in Milan in 1980, to Catanian parents.[2] He joined the National Alliance's youth wing Youth Action, and served as its national director.[3] He was later a co-founder of the Sicilian Alliance, and joined The Right.[2] In 2008 he was The Right's candidate for president of Sicily in the regional election, and was named national spokesperson of the party's youth wing Gioventù Italiana.[3]
In 2012, he was appointed vice president of the province of Catania by Giuseppe Castiglione, a few weeks after being named assessor for cultural policies.[4] He became coordinator of DiventeràBellissima in 2015,[5] and in 2017 was appointed health councillor of Sicily.[3]