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Half a million now back judge’s derided campaign to scrap law that saved Prime Minister from trial
On September 25, just five days before the annual deadline set by Italian law for such petitions, Di Pietro plans to drive two lorries loaded with 500,000 signatures up to the door of Italy’s Court of Cassation. If the court accepts the petition, it will approve a referendum that could put the Italian Prime Minister back on trial next year.
But for Berlusconi’s governing coalition, Di Pietro is living on another planet.
‘He hasn’t realised that Italy is full of sensible people,’ said Renato Schifani, the senator from Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party who submitted the legal amendment approved in June. ‘Most people agree that the Prime Minister should spend his time ruling the country, not fighting lawsuits.’
Many said the same of Clinton, a lot of good it did. But imagine if Bill had passed a law protecting himself from prosecution.
I doubt he’d have had the same level of support.