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House approves anti-corruption bill by wide majority

House approves anti-corruption bill by wide majority

Orlando says false accounting 'back to being a crime'

Rome, 21 May 2015, 19:58

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House votes anti-corruption bill - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

House votes anti-corruption bill -     ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
House votes anti-corruption bill - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

(ANSA) - Rome, May 21 - Italy's Lower House on Thursday approved an anti-corruption bill by a wide majority - 280 yeas to 53 nays and 11 abstentions.

Members of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and Silvio Berluscon's center-right Forza Italia (FI) party opposed the bill and the anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League party abstained.

Earlier Raffaele Cantone, the head of Italy's anti-corruption authority, said the bill was to the "best possible" legislation.

"The new anti-corruption law makes Italy stronger," Justice Minister Andrea Orlando tweeted. "The corrupt and the corruptors betray our country...false accounting is back to being a crime punishable with severe sanctions".

"All the naysayers who bet on the objective never being reached" have been defeated, Orlando said earlier.

Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso also hailed the vote. "Godot has arrived," he said.

Premier Matteo Renzi, who is in the Latvian capital of Riga for a two-day Eastern Partnership summit,  hailed passage of his government's anti-corruption bill.

"Today's result on the fight against corruption would have been unthinkable just a few months ago," he said. "This is an important step, bringing politics closer to the expectations of Italian citizens".

"My thanks go out to those in government, in the majority and in parliament who worked to provide more stringent anti-crime measures," he added.
   

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