Lodo Mondadori, two paradoxes in the maneuver with the Fininvest-saving regulation

In the diabolical perseverance with which President Silvio Berlusconi continues to build ad personam laws in defense of his interests, and this time of Fininvest-Mondadori against De Benedetti's Cir, there are at least two curious paradoxes. These are paradoxes that would arouse hilarity if they did not discredit both the proposing government and the Italian system in the eyes of the world and international markets. The first paradox is that the fraudulent rule, surprisingly hidden in the last three lines of the last paragraph of the third last article of the economic manoeuvre, is contained in a decree entitled "Urgent provisions for financial stabilization" and which is now all examination of the Quirinale. That title now sounds either ironic or terribly clear. Beyond the merits, it will be curious to understand what are the reasons (general and not ad personam) of necessity and urgency that justify recourse to the decree for a provision such as the salva-Fininvest. And if that rule were to be confirmed and approved by Parliament, it would take more than an acrobatics to demonstrate that the financial stabilization referred to is that of the country. Perhaps the title of the decree meant, more appropriately, to allude to the Berlusconi group, which would save a sum of the order of 500 million euros. Unless the prime minister manages to convince the Italians that what is good for Fininvest is also good for Italy. But the paradox of financial stabilization in the Fininvest version is not the only one. The other, as this morning's Corriere della Sera editorial recalled in a headline ("Bad thoughts") that is already illuminating in itself, is that the ad personam rule is contained in an article of the decree on the maneuver called "Provisions for the efficiency of the judicial system and the speedy settlement of disputes”. Assuming and not allowing that provision ever become law, it is certain that Cir would challenge it before the Cassation, but then it is completely obvious that the final effect would be exactly the opposite of that imagined by the title of the article of the decree: times not just long, but even longer for settling disputes. With great joy of the Knight and a new hoax against Cir (after that of 1991, when a corrupt judge assigned Mondadori to Berlusconi's Fininvest to the detriment of the De Benedetti group) but above all to the most elementary need for certain and rapid justice.