The Senate on Thursday rejected the
ejection of centre-right Forza Italia (FI) Senator Augusto
Minzolini which had been approved by the Senate immunity panel
because he was definitively convicted of embezzlement over the
use of his RAI State broadcaster credit card in 2015. Some 137
Senators voted against applying an office ban on Minzolini, a
friend of FI chief Silvio Berlusconi and the former editor of
RAI's flagship news show TG1. Minzolini courted controversy
during his tenure of TG1 for allegedly favouring three-time
premier Berlusconi. Minzolini has said that in any case he will
step down as Senator.
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