Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Berlusconi criticized in Italy justice is a political counterweight

Rome. .- The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said today that the Italian justice has become "a political counterweight goes beyond the constitutional principles and is less and less to public service." Berlusconi made the remarks in a message to the developers of the Freedom Association, next to his People of Freedom party (PDL), which also described as "senseless and unforgivable" legal efforts against them carried out by Milan magistrates, who prosecuted for abuse of power and incitement to prostitution of minors by the Ruby case.

The head of the Italian Government, which claimed the economic achievements of his government also announced it will convene in the coming days, an extraordinary Council of Ministers to approve the reform of the judiciary, whose first draft was approved Friday by the agency. A reform that, according to Berlusconi, will "finally Italy can have a fair justice and worthy of a modern country." He also stressed the introduction of legislation on wiretapping "to end abuses and violations of privacy" and to halt the practice of leaking to reporters the contents of wiretaps of police investigations.

These measures come amid the scandal over the Ruby case, uncovered by the Prosecutor of Milan, who suspects that the president maintained close relations with the girl of Moroccan origin, when it was minor. Some research that relied heavily on wiretaps to people close to Berlusconi, including young people who attend their private parties, which have been published by Italian media causing uproar in the country.

Last Friday the media and Berlusconi advanced the intention of reviving the so-called gag rule once broaden consensus achieved in the Chamber of Deputies, where, after the split of his former ally Gianfranco Fini and his supporters last summer, lost its absolute majority. The gag rule, which started in the House in June 2010, provided for limiting the use of eavesdropping in police investigations and even punished with jail journalists who publish their content.

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