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The 15 May arrest of businessman and consultant Luigi Bisignani "rocks the world of politics," headlinesLa Stampa, which, along with the rest of the Italian press, is already talking about the "P4 case," a reference to the secret masonic lodge which planned to subvert democratic institutions in 1970s. Investigators believe that Bisignani, a former journalist was at the head of "a secret association, whose members collected confidential information from contacts in the worlds of politics and business, which they used to exert pressure, on occasion even resorting to blackmail," to obtain public tenders and well-paid jobs, explains the Turin daily. La Stampa points tolinksbetween Bisignani and Silvio Berlusconi, who insists that the affair is another judicial "plot" against him. At the same time, the newspaper argues that there is no connection between the emerging scandal and the recent slump in electoral support for the head of government, whose political fortunes "appear to destined for inevitable decline."
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