Italians living in the central
Emilia-Romagna region will go to the polls on November 23 to
vote for a new governor, officials said Thursday.
Elections were triggered by the resignation of former
governor Vasco Errani after he was convicted of fraud in July
and sentenced to a year in prison.
The court sentenced two co-defendants in the so-called
Terremerse case, both of them regional officials, to 14 months
behind bars.
Errani had first been acquitted in 2012 in a fast-track
procedure on charges that he favored his brother in a business
deal that made use of public funds.
Prosecutors alleged that in 2005 Errani helped his
brother, Giovanni, obtain one million euros in regional funds
used to pay for the building of a new winery in the Terremerse
cooperative, in the town of Imola.
The investigation into the loan began in 2009, after
Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale suggested there may have
been irregularities in the issuing of the funds.
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