A Milan court last week ruled that
ex-premier and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi is eligible
to run for office again after Carabinieri and State police filed
statements saying that he met good conduct requirements as there
were not "negative" reports against him, the ruling said.
The court ruled that the ban from standing for office, which
was related to 2013 conviction for tax-fraud in his media
empire, was over.
Berlusconi served the prison sentence related to the
conviction by doing public service at a centre for Alzheimer's
patients.
The judges ruled that current cases in which Berlusconi is a
defendant were not an obstacle to his "rehabilitation" regarding
the tax-fraud conviction.
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