Augusto Minzolini, a prominent
member of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI)
party, handed in his resignation as a lawmaker to the Senate on
Tuesday.
The Upper House will now have to decide whether to accept the
resignation.
Minzolini announced he would quit earlier this month even
though the Senate had saved him from ejection under a 2012 law
mandating an office ban in the wake of a definitive conviction.
The Senate immunity panel had approved the ejection because
he was definitively convicted by the supreme Cassation Court of
embezzlement over the use of his RAI State broadcaster credit
card in 2015.
Minzolini, a friend of FI chief Berlusconi, is the former
editor of RAI's flagship news show TG1.
After tendering his resignation, Minzolini said: "I did this
because I wanted to and not because other people asked me to.
"Now I want to get back to being a journalist".
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