Lazio regional election, 2005

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All 70 seats to the Regional Council of Lazio

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Piero Marrazzo	Francesco Storace
Party	The Olive Tree	National Alliance
Alliance	The Union	House of Freedoms
Last election	22 seats, 46,0%	38 seats, 51,3%
Seats won	42	28
Popular vote	1,631,501	1,524,712
Percentage	50.7%	47.4%
Swing	+4,7%	-3,1%

President of Lazio before election

Francesco Storace
House of Freedoms

President of Lazio

Piero Marrazzo
The Olive Tree

Francesco Storace
House of Freedoms

Piero Marrazzo
The Olive Tree

The Lazio regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.

Piero Marrazzo (Indep. The Olive Tree, The Union) defeated incumbent Francesco Storace (National Alliance, House of Freedoms).

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 Berlusconi III Cabinet.

During the electoral campaign, Storace came out with factual evidence that Alessandra Mussolini's Social Alternative had added fake signatures to real ones to reach the minimum number needed to present a list. However, to demonstrate this, he had someone "hack" into the database of the municipality of Rome 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. Storace however denied all the charges.

Source: Ministry of the Interior

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