Silvio Berlusconi’s lawyers fought to save his political career yesterday by arguing that the law should regard him as “first above equals” and continue to protect him from prosecution.
On the first day of a hearing to determine whether the Italian Prime Minister will continue to avoid a series of trials that could bring down his Government, his legal team provoked outrage by telling the country’s highest court that he should be regarded as a special case.
In his address to the Constitutional Court, Gaetano Pecorella, one of four lawyers representing Mr Berlusconi, said that the Prime Minister could no longer be regarded in the same way as other politicians. More...
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On the first day of a hearing to determine whether the Italian Prime Minister will continue to avoid a series of trials that could bring down his Government, his legal team provoked outrage by telling the country’s highest court that he should be regarded as a special case.
In his address to the Constitutional Court, Gaetano Pecorella, one of four lawyers representing Mr Berlusconi, said that the Prime Minister could no longer be regarded in the same way as other politicians. More...
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