The Lazio regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005. Piero Marrazzo (Independent of

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) defeated incumbent

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( AN,

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). The defeat in Lazio for House of Freedoms was especially important as the centre-right expected to maintain control of the Region. Storace, a leading member in the centre-right, was subsequently granted the status of Minister of Public Health in

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. During the electoral campaign, Storace came out with factual evidence that

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had added fake signatures to real ones to reach the minimum number needed to present a list. However, to demonstrate this, he had someone "

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" into the

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of the municipality of

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in order to verify the signatures: he was therefore nicknamed "Storhacker" by Mussolini. It also appeared that someone spied on the centre-left candidate Marrazzo.Repubblica.it » cronaca » Dalle liste della Mussolini a Marrazzo ecco le imprese degli spioni romani
/ref> Storace however denied all the charges.

Results

References

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