Herewith the article from page 4 of today’s Repubblica newspaper, showing the current legal status of the future new Parliamentarians to-be. As I have repeatedly stated during the current election campaign, the Italia dei Valori Party has only fielded candidates with perfectly clean records.
"Black flag to the Pier Ferdinando Casini’s UDC Party, while top of the class is Di Pietro’s Italia dei valori party. These two parties respectively represent the two extremes of the “clean list”, negative and positive. 9 Percent of the future centre-party Parliamentarians are, in fact, people that have either been found guilty, sentenced or are awaiting the outcome of appeals from either the Court of Appeal or the Court of Cassation. This compared to a 100 percent of the Italia dei Valori Party’s top contenders, who not only have a clean record, but have never even been remanded for trial. The classification was drawn up following a lengthy cross-referenced investigation of the nomination lists submitted by all of the parties to the "lavoce.info" website. Furthermore, it refers to the legal status of future incumbents or presumed initial dropouts on the basis of the composition of the lists or election forecasts.
«There is a rotten smell around Parliament» is the title given to the investigation surrounding the virtuosity list. At the top of the list is the Idv party with 100 percent of their candidates being free of any involvement in any legal cases whatsoever. Then follows the Lega Nord party with 93.1 percent. Thereafter comes the Democratic Party with 98.8, the Pdl with 96.7 and the Sinistra arcobaleno with 98.1. Bringing up the rear is Casini’s Udc with 85.3 percent. The site specifies that: «the major information sources as regards the candidates’ legal status is the book entitled "Se li conosci li eviti" (If you know them, you avoid them) by Peter Gomez and Marco Travaglio (Chiarelettere, ed.) and the decisions handed down by the Appeals and Cassation Courts »."