Vendola compares Berlusconi to TV occult personality
SEL leader speaks at ANSA headquarters Monday
04 February, 12:45
(ANSA) - Rome, February 4 - Puglia Governor and leader of
the Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) party Nichi Vendola on Monday
compared ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi to disgraced TV
personality Wanna Marchi.Vendola, speaking at a conference at ANSA's historic headquarters in Rome was referring to Berlusconi's promise to scrap a highly unpopular housing tax if his coalition wins in the upcoming elections.
Marchi, who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to nine years and six months on charges of fraud and extortion, became a household name in Italy for her aggressive sales pitches for health and dietary products, before she turned to the occult and selling "lucky" lotto numbers.
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