The Italian government
respected the European Convention on Human Rights, its
representative Maria Giuliana Civinini said Wednesday at a
hearing on the case of former premier Silvio Berlusconi's ban
from public office at the European Court of Human Rights.
"No violation can be attributed," Civinini said.
"The law was scrupulously respected".
The decision in 2013 to expel Berlusconi from parliament and
not to allow him to take part in elections for six years in
relation to a tax-fraud conviction was "not arbitrary but was
made at the end of a procedure that respected all the rights" of
the former prime minister.
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