It is "difficult" to supply
a date for the European Court of Human Rights' ruling on Silvio
Berlusconi's office ban, ECHR President Guido Raimondi said
Thursday, while stressing he was not personally involved in the
case of the Italian ex-premier.
Sources close to the court said that sentences by the ECHR's
Grand Chambre, like Berlusconi's, usually take nine-11 months to
be issued, from the time of the hearing.
The billionaire media magnate and three-time former premier's
suit was heard on November 22.
Berlusconi is banned from holding office until 2019 because
of a tax fraud conviction.
He appealed against the ban, arguing it had been wrongly
applied retroactively, in the hope of standing for the
premiership in the March 4 general election.
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