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Boat loving Italian MP resigns after 'media lynching' over attendance record
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 04, 2018 07:05pm |
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| Author | AFP |
| News Date | Saturday, August 4, 2018 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | An Italian sailing champion turned MP – who justified frequent parliamentary absences by saying he could do politics from his boat – announced his resignation on Saturday, blaming a “media lynching”.
In his resignation letter, Andrea Mura said he had always taken his parliamentary mandate “with the greatest seriousness” but that he had been unfairly rounded on by the media with “ignominious and groundless accusations” which his Five Star Movement (M5S) had not given him the opportunity to explain.
Since his election in March, Mura had turned up for only eight of the assembly’s 220 votes, according to monitoring website OpenPolis. |
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