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denounced the responsibilities of Gioia and the leaders of the local DC for the murder of
Pasquale Almerico. So Gioia immediately sued the newspaper. Subsequently the complaint was withdrawn after the publication of a denial agreed between the complainant and the journalists involved.
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Democratic sections only in Palermo. Around the years 1954-1957 the breakdown of the agrarian bloc allowed Gioia to transfer liberal and monarchist exponents (often compromised with the
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