Glenn Bedingfield

Glenn Bedingfield (born November 15, 1974 in Pietà , Malta ) is a Maltese journalist and politician of the social democratic Malta Labor Party (MLP). From 2008 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament .

Bedingfield is married with one daughter.

Professional career

Coming from a working-class family, Bedingfield joined the MLP at an early age and in 1991 was one of the first journalists for the party's own radio and television broadcaster Super One , where he mainly did political investigative journalism . In 2002 he won the Maltese Journalist of the Year Award for television.

He has also published three investigative books on crime in Maltese politics. The then Maltese Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami filed a complaint against the first of these books, Il Gurament ("The Witness"), which he later withdrew after his election as Maltese President.

Bedingfield also opened various restaurants in Vittoriosa one after the other , most recently a wine bar.

Political career

After joining the Malta Labor Party in the early 1990s, Bedingfield held various party offices. 1996–97 he was general secretary of the party's youth organization, and from 1997–2001 he was a member of the party presidium. In November 2003 he was nominated as one of four MLP candidates for the 2004 European elections . In the election itself, however, he received the fewest votes of all MLP candidates, so that he was initially unable to move into the European Parliament . In October 2008, however, he took over the seat of Joseph Muscat , who left the European Parliament to become opposition leader in the Maltese parliament . In the European elections in 2009 Bedingfield ran again, but could not win a mandate.

Web links

• Official homepage of Glenn Bedingfield
• Entry on Glenn Bedingfield in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
• VoteWatch.eu: Glenn Bedingfield's voting behavior in the European Parliament (in English)