Claudio Martelli

Claudio Martelli
Minister of Justice
In office 2 February 1991 – 10 February 1993
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Giuliano Vassalli
Succeeded by	Giovanni Conso
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy
In office 22 July 1989 – 28 June 1992
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Gianni De Michelis
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Tatarella Roberto Maroni
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004
Constituency	Central Italy
In office 24 July 1984 – 24 July 1989
Constituency	Central Italy
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 20 June 1979 – 14 April 1994
Constituency	Mantua (1979–1987; 1992–1994) Palermo (1987–1992)
Personal details
Born	(1943-09-24) 24 September 1943 (age 80) Gessate, Italy
Political party	PRI (1956–1966) PSI (1966–1994) SDI (1998–2000) LS (2000–2001) NPSI (2001–2005)
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Spouse	Lia Quartapelle ​ (m. 2022)​
Alma mater	University of Milan
Occupation	Politician, university professor, journalist

Claudio Martelli (born 24 September 1943) is an Italian former politician and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the former Italian Socialist Party (PSI) newspaper Avanti! The right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the PSI leader and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987, Martelli was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1989 to 1992 and Minister of Justice from 1991 to 1993, when he was implicated in the Tangentopoli scandal and left politics.

Martelli returned to politics in 1997 and re-founded Mondoperaio, a PSI-affiliated cultural magazine, and joined the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI), becoming in 1999 a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a position he first held with the PSI between 1984 and 1989. In 2001, he joined the centre-right coalition-affiliated New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI) and unsuccessfully ran for the Chamber of Deputies, a position he also held with the PSI from 1979 to 1994.

After again ending his party politics career in 2005, Martelli became a television presenter and re-launched Avanti!