Debate in the Senate ammounted to a total of three days.

It is likely that the law will be eventually judged anti-constitutional but it will already have absolved its scope of blocking all current trials and investigations into Berlusconi's fervid, reiterative and questionable activities. The David Mill's trial will be blocked as soon as the law is published in the official gazzette.

No other democracy has a law of such sweeping immunity to prosecution. In fact only four states allow for presidential or royal immunity. But then in a nation where parliamentary sovereignty has been reduced to a gaggle of sycophants who were appointed rather than elected, the word "democracy" applies only in its authoritarian sense. We have a new Duce.