Berlusconi sex-for-hire verdict after Italy vote

January 21, 2013 19:26

Judges hearing ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial today pushed back the verdict and the sentencing in the case until after Italy's Feb 24-25 national election. Prosecutors, meanwhile, pressed to make sure they can give their closing arguments, which include their sentencing demands, before the vote, in which Berlusconi is heading a center-right coalition.

That coalition is facing the center-left Democratic Party, which is leading in the polls, and centrist parties united under a financial reform agenda led by Premier Mario Monti. Berlusconi has long accused Milan magistrates of mounting politically inspired campaign against him an allegation they deny.

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