Reforms and P2
In the early 70s of the last century, Italy was crossed by the ideas of a prophetic visionary, ahead of his time: Licio Gelli, the Venerable Master of the “covered” lodge Masonic Propaganda 2 (the infamous P2).
Fascist from 1937 to 1943, when the Nazi-Fascist defeat began to appear inevitable, he began to collaborate with the partisans with whom he also participated in the liberation of political prisoners from the Villa Sbertoli prison. His association with Marxist fringes even leads the SIFAR (Armed Forces Information Service, Italian military secret service, active from 1949 to 1966) to suspect him of being a collaborator of the PCI and of carrying out espionage activities in favor of the Soviet Empire, coming described as, “character capable of performing any action”. He subsequently converted to “centrism” by becoming secretary of the Christian Democrat deputy Romolo Diecidue.
“Initiated into Freemasonry in 1963, he quickly climbed the main ranks, managing to initiate into P2 a significant number of individuals holding public, political, financial and administrative offices, the names of some of whom would have been known only “to the ear”. ” by Gelli. Although for many it was just another well-attended venue for political profiteering, during the 1970s the P2 stood out for its subversive purposes, including the Democratic Rebirth Plan drawn up by Francesco Cosentino on the instructions of Gelli himself” (taken from the article “History of an announced dictatorship”, signed in 2019 by Luca Cellini, editor and columnist of Pressence).
Among the most famous names of the “initiates” are Silvio Berlusconi, Enrico Manca, Luigi Mariotti, Fabrizio Cicchitto, Duilio Poggiolini, Roberto Calvi, Michele Sindona, Maurizio Costanzo, Massimo De Carolis, Vito Napoli, Gustavo Selva, Roberto Gervaso. Their “curricula” ensure their representation of every political party.
P2 was dissolved by law (art. 5, Law 25 January 1982, n. 17), as it was declared secret association with subversive purposes.
Among the most urgent measures envisaged by the Democratic Rebirth Plan of the P2 Lodge, there were:
1) separate the careers of prosecuting and judging magistrates (DONE).
2) reduce the praetorial function to a judicial one (DONE).
3) introduce civil liability, even through fault, of magistrates (WE ARE WORKING HARD ON IT).
4) introduce a ban on the nomination in the press of magistrates involved in judicial proceedings (ALMOST DONE).
5) introduce preliminary psycho-aptitude tests for career entry (ALMOST DONE).
6) reform the Superior Council of the Judiciary which must be responsible to Parliament (WORK IS WORKING ON IT).
7) re-establish selection criteria based on merit for the promotions of magistrates (WE ARE ALSO WORKING TO IDENTIFY WHO DEFINES MERIT).
In short, history has proved the Venerable Master right. In fact, he even surpassed it. In fact, thanks to art. 3, letter. a, of law 17 June 2022, n. 71, lawyers will be able to evaluate the career and salary of magistrates. That’s right.
Despite all this, in a very recent interview, the Keeper of the Seals, welcoming the separation of careers and CSMs, declared «What matters is the distance in the CSM. Today the prosecutors, i.e. the accusers, give their votes to the judges. When we try to explain this extravagance to our foreign colleagues, they think we are crazy».
Unless contradicted, he said exactly that.
He didn’t think that, when he tells foreign magistrates that Italian ones are subjected to the votes of lawyers, some of them – perhaps the famous judge from Berlin – instead of “take him for crazy”, he could take a piss out of him.
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