(ANSA) - Milan, October 17 - Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo
asked a judge to sentence the president of the province of
Milan, Guido Podesta', to five years and eight months for
rigging the 2010 regional elections in Lombardy.
Robledo requested sentences ranging from four years to four
years and eight months for four provincial councilors who are
also defendants in the case.
Lawyers for civil complainants sought one million euros to
be paid by the group of defendants for causing a "severe wound
to democracy" by "secretly taking away freedom of choice" in
political representation.
Podesta' and the others are accused of padding a petition
with 926 false signatures to put centre-right incumbent governor
Roberto Formigoni and his People of Freedom (PDL) allies on the
regional ballot.
The case became a battle-horse for the civil-rights-centred
Radical party fought in Milanese civil, criminal and
administrative courts.
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