Tag: Italian senate

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 15:50 UTC

  Italian Senate votes in November to expel Berlusconi and bar him from politics for six years

  

  Milan court ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years following a conviction for tax fraud. But, since Berlusconi is a senator, the court's decision will have no immediate effect and his expulsion from the Senate will depend on a separate vote in the upper house of parliament, expected to take place next month.