Silvio Berlusconi has officially served his sentence. This was certified by the Surveillance Court of Milan by depositing the order declaring the sentence inflicted on Silvio Berlusconi in the Mediaset trial expiated. Now the former knight will be able to get his passport back and move freely. His sentence, which became effective on 18 March 2014, also provided for the accessory penalty of disqualification from public office for two years, which was declared extinguished by the Court. Silvio Berlusconi will therefore be able to vote again but, according to the Severino law, the former knight will remain ineligible for six years, therefore at least until 2019.
The surveillance court of Milan with the order filed this morning sanctions the positive outcome of the assignment to social services granted to Berlusconi in the spring of last year to atone for the sentence (four years in prison, reduced to one due to the pardon ) made definitive by the Cassation in the tax fraud trial with the sale of television and film rights at the center.
The court presided over by Pasquale Nobile de Santis met last Thursday, shortly before the shooting at the Palace of Justice. The provision 'certifies' the correct behavior maintained by Berlusconi, after the false 'step' of the declarations against the judiciary which had cost him a warning from judge Beatrice Crosti.
Last March, the former Prime Minister was granted a sentence discount for good conduct, which had reduced the length of the sentence by a month and a half. The reports that Severina Panarello, head of the External Penal Execution Office, has sent in recent months on the basis of periodic interviews with Berlusconi and the progress of her voluntary work at the Holy Family in Cesano weighed heavily on the evaluation of the convict's process Boscone. The court also declared the accessory penalty of disqualification from public office for three years extinguished.
Berlusconi will therefore be able to vote but remains ineligible on the basis of the Severino law, against which the former prime minister's lawyers have presented an appeal to the Strasbourg Court. Unless the battle to amend the Severino law is reopened.
