Berlusconi's true face

A draft law has been introduced by the Italian government which is meant among other things to protect those in high offices from criminal prosecution. The Italian daily La Repubblica comments: "Right in the middle of the honeymoon the Italians were enjoying with their new government, the true face of Berlusconi has once more emerged with full force. Unchanged and calculating, the Prime Minister has done away with institutional masks, and stopped masquerading as a statesman. Berlusconi remains Berlusconi, ready to sacrifice the constitutional state to his own personal interests, ready to infringe on the freedom of the press to prevent incriminating interviews from being published, ready to trample on citizens' rights to information on judicial investigations. ... For the first time in the history of the republic, a government has encroached upon the area of criminal procedure, twisting the rules and establishing a hierarchy among the crimes to be prosecuted."

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