Angelino Alfano /

Angelino Alfano (born October 31, 1970, in Agrigento) is an Italian politician who has served as Italy's Minister of Justice since 2008 as part of the Berlusconi Cabinet. He is a member of the centre-right party People of Freedom. A lawyer, in 1994 he decided to enter in Forza Italia, the new centre-right party founded by Silvio Berlusconi. Alfano became a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies after the 2001 elections, representing the first constituency of Sicily. He has been regional secretary of the party since 2005. In 2008, aged 37, he became the youngest Minister of Justice of the history of the Italian Republic. The Lodo Alfano, named after him, was a law, valid between 2008 and 2009, granting immunity from prosecution to the four highest political offices in Italy (President of the Republic, Presidents of the two Houses of Parliament, and Prime Minister). It was widely criticized as a copy of the Lodo Schifani, declared unconstitutional in 2004, and aims mostly at stopping trials involving Berlusconi. The Lodo Alfano was declared unconstitutional by the Italian Constitutional Court in October 2009.