Silvio Berlusconi writes a new appointment on the diary. The 19 October the Milan Court of Appeal will meet for re-determine the disqualification from public office inflicted on the Knight at the end of the trial on the sale of Mediaset TV rights.
On August XNUMX, the Cassation confirmed the four-year sentence for tax fraud established by the Court of Appeal, prescribing however that the accessory penalty, initially established at five years, be recalculated, despite the fact that the law provides that for that type of crime it is between a minimum of one year and a maximum of three.
Meanwhile, today at 15 pm it will meet for the first time the Junta for the elections of the Senate, called to decide on Berlusconi's forfeiture from Palazzo Madama. On paper, the composition of the Giunta is absolutely unfavorable to the knight, with 14 votes potentially in favor and only eight against the ex-premier's forfeiture.
On the duration of the works, however, there is still a lot of uncertainty: the PDL is trying to buy time, aiming to wait for the pronouncement of the European Court of Human Rights, to which the defense of the former prime minister has presented an appeal. If Strasbourg agrees with the Knight, his lawyers could ask for the process to be reviewed, but this is an unlikely prospect.
The debate focuses on the applicability of the Severino law to the Berlusconi case (which provides, in addition to forfeiture, the ineligibility for six years for those definitively sentenced to sentences of more than two years), since the law came into force after the crime.
The deputy premier and secretary of the Pdl Angelino Alfano today he tried to move the clash from the political to the legal level: “We ask the commission to escape the centre-right-centre-left logic to avoid the decision being political – he said in the morning on Canale 5 -. If this does not happen, it is evident that the numbers are in favor of the left which wants the immediate decadence of Berlusconi".
Shortly after, the group leader to the room Renato Brunetta he brought the controversy back within the government, threatening again the stability of the Letta government: "If the Democratic Party thinks today of making Berlusconi fall to get rid of him, not having won him in the elections, think something irresponsible, because the majority will immediately disappear with what follows. Let the Democratic Party reflect on it ”.
Il First himself, however, does not seem worried: "The PDL will not leave the coalition," he told the BBC.
