A Rome judge has dismissed a
defamation suit filed by Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca
against anti-mafia commission chair Rosy Bindi after he was
included on a list of 17 crime-tainted candidates in 2015
regional elections.
Preliminary judge Giovanni Giorgianni shelved the suit at
the request of the public prosecutor, despite De Luca's
opposition.
De Luca said in May he was suing Bindi after the
parliamentary commission she chairs included him in the list of
candidates deemed unfit to stand in the polls.
He was convicted in January 2015 of abuse of office in
connection with an incinerator project while he was mayor of the
city of Salerno, and handed a suspended sentence of a year in
prison plus a one-year ban from holding public office.
As a result of the conviction, he was also suspended from
holding public office for 18 months under a 2012 anti-corruption
law known as the Severino law but the Campania Regional
Administrative Tribunal (TAR) reinstated him three days later.
The dismissal measure filed on Tuesday said it was clear
that the decisions taken by the anti-mafia commission had been
widely backed by the parliamentary groups it is made up of.
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