Having been convicted of tax fraud,expelled from the Senate and officially barred from public office,his name will once again appear on ballot papers on September 25.
Ask any Brit to conjure up their most vivid image of Boris Johnson and chances are it would be his stunt-gone-wrong during the London Olympics. Now,almost 10 years later,his career hangs by a far more tenuous wire.
Liberals worry about the national significance of Salvini winning in Emilia-Romagna,long the Communist buckle of Italy's Red Belt.
The Italian senator is at the centre of one of the nastiest anti-Semitic debates since the rule of Fascism during World War II.
In January,Imane Fadil told a court she had paid a heavy price for coming forward and that"the truth would come out"in a book she was writing.
Imane Fadil died a month after being admitted to a Milan hospital with severe stomach pains. At the time she said she had been poisoned.
Party leaders have a plan for government but have not named a prime minister. Meanwhile ex-PM Berlusconi has been ruled fit for office after his ban was lifted.
Bearing ample evidence of the nips,tucks and hair transplants that have reversed the march of time,Silvio Berlusconi beamed to supporters as he cast his vote.
Most Italians couldn’t have placed Macerata on a map until this year. Now it is the focus of a bitter political fight over this weekend’s national election.