Lower House votes to eject Forza Italia MP Galan

(ANSA) - Rome, April 28 - The Lower House on Wednesday voted to eject Forza Italia MP Giancarlo Galan after he plea-bargained a definitive two-year-10-month sentence for corruption on the Venice MOSE flood-barrier project. The vote was carried with 388 votes in favour, 40 against and 7 abstentions.
    Former Veneto regional governor and two-time minister Galan argued he was forced into the plea bargain by being jailed in the case.
    He was arrested in June 2014 along with then Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni and 33 others in relation to a probe into alleged corruption in contracts for MOSE.