PURSE: SCHIFANI, Russia and ALFANO commemorates him in via D'Amelio AGI) - Palermo, 19 July - The President of the Senate, Renato Schifani, the defense minister, Ignazio La Russa, and Justice Minister, Angelino Alfano, the deposition of wreaths in Palermo in Via d'Amelio have paid tribute to Paolo Borsellino and his police escort Emanuela Loi, Agostino Catalano, Eddie Walter Cosina, Claudio Traina and Vincenzo Li Muli, killed by the Mafia 16 years ago. For
President Schifani the best way to remember Falcone and Borsellino killed mafia''and 'the answer that Sicily is giving in recent times. The rebellion against the employers 'protection racket, the laws of the State, Government and Parliament are about to approve, contributing even more' effectively in the fight against mafia organization.''
Schifani, pero ', stressed that''we must remember that the mafia is not' yet been won, and therefore we should not lower your guard and think that the political forces are aware of.''
Minister La Russa has instead stressed that''our presence in Palermo's not 'just a tribute, but also an act respect. Remember Borsellino and 'duty and serve to make us reflect and strengthen our love for freedom.''
For Alfano Keeper''and now 'a day of sorrow, but also of hope''and said that''fifty-seven days ago, when we commemorated Giovanni Falcone, the Government had adopted significant measures for the security forces and the fight against crime ', now that measures have been strengthened by Parliament and became law of the State. This - he concludes - and 'a beacon of hope and means that the state reacts.''
Biography [edit ]
Schifani, son of used [1] , he graduated in law with 110 honors. In 1979 , legal practitioner in the office of deputy Giuseppe La Loggia, was inserted by him in the company insurance brokerage Sicula Brokers, which included Enrico La Loggia , son of Joseph and political future of prominent Forza Italy, and some partners in the year 1990 were charged with Mafia association or collusion with the Mafia [2] [3] ; Schifani left the company in 1980 [4] , taking as a lawyer. founded in 1992, along with two members, including two Antonino Garofalo, indicted in 1997 to wear and extortion, the debt collection company GSM [3] , because of that activity was further defined in a bar of Justice Minister Filippo Mancuso the "Prince of debt" [1] .
Schifani already entered Christian Democratic Party, joined Forza Italy in February 1995 and, after a stint at a municipal councilor Palermo, was elected to the Senate the Italian general election of 1996 in the College of Palermo Alton - Corleone, representing the center-right coalition. In his first term was the leader of Forza Italy Commission for Constitutional Affairs and has been part of parliamentary commission for constitutional reforms , the so-called "bicameral."
Schifani Meanwhile in 1990, already active as a lawyer, Supreme Court of Cassation, established himself as a lawyer, planner, receiving numerous commissions in municipalities Sicilian [4] . In one of these was a consultant for the 'urban and plan of the town of Villabate , whose mayor was the grandson of Joseph Shuttle Nino Mandalà , capocosca town [5] and former member of the Sicilian Schifani Brokers, according to the repentant Francesco Campanella this assignment was given, via Enrico La Loggia, as part of a deal between the Mafia and politics to build a megastore [6] , project then aborted because of investigations [7] .
Re-elected in the elections of 2001 during the XIV Legislature Schifani was among the supporters of the stabilization of ' Article 41 bis, which made the final so-called' rigorous imprisonment, "expressly provided for crimes of mafia-type criminal association, institute so far purely provisional [8] [9] .
bears his name and that of Senator Antonio Maccanico ( the Olive Tree), the " award-Maccanico Schifani ," a law passed June 20, 2003, to suspend the ongoing trials of the "five the highest offices of state "the subject of numerous controversies suspended because of the fact EMS process for Prime Minister Berlusconi as long as they had remained in office. Later the law was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court January 13, 2004 [10] .
Schifani in Italian general election of 2006 is re-elected senator for the third time, for Forza Italy, Sicily in the district and during the XV Legislature was a member of the Land and Environment Commission.
shaking hands with President of the Republic
Napolitano As a parent of Force in Italy XIV and XV Legislature from 2001 to 2008 Schifani was the protagonist of the parliamentary debates of the Senate [11] .
At the 2008 elections was elected for the fourth time, still in Sicily, for the People of Freedom .
During the first session of the Legislature XVI, on April 29 2008 he was elected President of the Senate the first ballot, reporting 178 votes (162 the quorum required), 4 more than the coalition PDL, Northern League and MpA [12] .