The Lodo Alfano (roughly "Alfano Law"), named after Berlusconi's Minister of Justice

Angelino Alfano Angelino Alfano (; born 31 October 1970) is an Italian former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. Alfano was Minister of the Interior from 28 April 2013 to 12 December 2016, serving in the g ...

, was an Italian law, valid between 2008 and 2009, granting immunity from prosecution to the four highest political offices in Italy (the President of the Republic, the two Speakers of the Houses of Parliament and the

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). It was widely criticized as a copy of the ''Lodo Schifani'', declared unconstitutional in 2004, which was seen by critics as a law aimed primarily at stopping trials involving

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. The ''Lodo Alfano'' was declared unconstitutional by the Italian Constitutional Court in October 2009.Sentenza n. 292/2009
''Consulta Online'', 7 October 2009.

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