Italy's top court on Wednesday afternoon (19 April) confirmed that centre-left opposition leader Romano Prodi won last week's close-run general election, but voting controversy refuses to go away.
The news was broken by Italian SkyTV amid pcitures of cheering Prodi supporters.
The Court of Cassation's ruling means Mr Prodi carried the win by just 25,224 votes, or 0.06 percent of the more than 39 million cast. The center-left also won a two-seat advantage in the Senate.
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