Glenn Bedingfield

Glenn Bedingfield (* November 15, 1974 in Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Malta Labour Party (MLP ). 2008 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament.

Bedingfield is married and has one daughter.

Career

From a working class family to arise Bedingfield came early in the MLP and in 1991 was one of the first journalists of the newly founded party own radio and TV station Super One, where he operated mainly political investigative journalism. In 2002 he won for the Maltese price Journalist of the Year in the field of television.

He also published three books on investigative crime in the Maltese politics. Against the first of these books, Il Gurament ( " Witness " ), also reported to the then Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami Maltese a reminder that, however, he later withdrew after his election to the Maltese president.

In addition Bedingfield opened successively different restaurants in Vittoriosa, most recently a wine bar.

Political career

After his accession to the Malta Labour Party in the early 1990s Bedingfield held various party posts. 1996-97 he was general secretary of the youth wing of the party, from 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the presidium. In November 2003 he was established as one of four candidates of the MLP for the European elections in 2004. In the election itself, however, he received from all MLP candidates the least votes, so he could not at first make it to the European Parliament. In October 2008 he took over as substitutes but the seat of Joseph Muscat, who retired from the European Parliament to become leader of the opposition in the Maltese Parliament. In the European elections in 2009 Bedingfield stepped in again, but could not win a mandate.

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