Sisto, Berlusconi’s former lawyer who renounces the guarantee system to donate Puglia to Tajani

From hyper-guaranteed dove to super-justicial hawk. Unpredictable political-legal twist. Unimaginable for those who have known him all his life. Nothing but sweetened poems written in his own hand and read at dinners with the Knight. Francesco Paolo Sistoof the Bari family of Sisto lawyers (he even had a courtroom in Bari named after his father Eustachio), denies himself, his history in Forza Italia, his relationship with Silvio Berlusconi, for which he was a lawyer in the escort trial. He sisto changes his jacket in a few days. Abandon Licia Ronzulli, with whom he was clearly aligned, and gets “gasparrizza”. Yes, now the myth of him is the super hawk Maurizio Gasparri. Which is certainly not suited to the category of guaranteeism: on March 12 he enters the Senate Justice and Anti-Mafia commissions, becoming the FI man who will pour his extremism onto that plate. Sisto is with him. So much for the past. Far beyond, in tone and posture, compared to Niccolo Ghedini. Berlusconi’s shadow man, and certainly not Gasparri’s.

For the title of “deputy” Minister of Justice he made fire and flames when the government was formed. At Christmas, at Fiumicino airport, he put on a show, as he likes to do, sitting at the piano and playing festive carols. But now he must have understood that the goal of his old age, the post of judge at the Consulta, is a mirage. He already failed in 2015, and now he hoped to enter the list of lucky people for the four robes to be chosen at the end of the year, and give prestige to the Sisto house. But a mirage appears, precisely: it may be due to the aversion that the left reserves for him, it may be due to the catastrophic relationship with his fellow undersecretary of FdI Andrea Delmastroit may be because he also lost the battle against Giusi Bartolozzi, “the Tsarina”, Nordio’s chief of staff despite the fact that he wrote fiery letters against her. And so Sisto chooses Gasparri as his new mentor. In line with the new course of Antonio Tajani. It’s difficult to imagine them together, Sisto a man of hand-kissing without passion, and Gasparri a real daredevil.

From the series survive to live. His age (born in 1955) pushes him to put principles aside, if Decaro is involved and the bet on who is in charge in Puglia. He throws away the guaranteeist sermons, officiated not only in dozens of radio and TV broadcasts – he goes wherever they invite him from dawn to dusk – especially in the square with the penal chambers. And he shouts his yes to the separation of careers and the presumption of innocence. Until the last degree of judgment. If the “enemy” Decaro is involved, all this no longer applies.

For Sisto it is the right opportunity. To prove himself tougher than the Brindisi Mauro D’Attis sided with Tajani. There was another one in his life, when he got rid of the Costa nightmare. Yes, indeed Enrico Costa today of Action, yesterday of FI. Ready to translate the guaranteeist principles into rules and to “sell” them to the media, beating Sisto to no avail. From the Draghi government onwards, it happens that Costa re-proposes some of Sisto’s proposals, forcing him in his role as deputy minister to reject them. A contradiction that he explains like this: “tempus regit actum”. Yes, time regulates the act, and it is not always time for one’s own ideas, as demonstrated by Sisto’s guaranteeism, which collapsed in the Decaro case.