Editing Propaganda Due (section)

==The contents of the subversive programme: the "Plan of Democratic Rebirth"==
It was immediately realised that the seized documents testified to the existence of an organisation that aimed to take possession of the organs of state power in Italy: the ''Plan for Democratic Rebirth'' ({{lang|it|Piano di Rinascita Democratica}}), a document halfway between a manifesto and a feasibility study that was seized a few months later from Gelli's daughter, contained a sort of roadmap for the penetration of the lodge's members into key sectors of the State, indications for the start of selected proselytising and, appropriately, also a budget estimate of the costs for the acquisition of the vital functions of power: "The availability of funds not exceeding 30 or 40 billion seems sufficient to allow well-selected men of good faith to conquer the key positions necessary for their control."

The primary objectives were the reorganisation of the State under the banner of anti-communist and anti-socialist authoritarianism, accompanied by a selective and class-based approach to social structures. Among the main points of the plan was the simplification of the political panorama with the presence of two large macro-parties, bringing the magistracy under the control of the executive power, separating the careers of magistrates, overcoming the bicameral system and reducing the number of parliamentarians, abolishing the [[provinces of Italy|provinces]], breaking the unity of the [[trade union]]s and reforming the labour market, control over the [[mass media]], transforming the universities in Italy into [[Foundation (nonprofit)|foundations]] under private law, abolishing the {{Ill|Valore legale del titolo di studio|lt=legal validity of academic qualifications|it}} and adopting a repressive policy against petty crime and political opponents.

The people to be "recruited" into the parties would in exchange have to obtain "predominance" (textual) over their own organisations (in the plan it states "for the PSI, for example, Mancini, Mariani and Craxi; for the PRI: Visentini and Bandiera; for the PSDI: Orlandi and Amidei; for the DC: Andreotti, Piccoli, Forlani, Gullotti and Bisaglia; for the PLI: Cottone and Quilleri; for the Destra Nazionale (possibly): Covelli"), while the "recruited" journalists were supposed to "sympathise" with the men recommended by the Masonic lodge. Some of the politicians mentioned went on to play leading roles in their parties and in the government, but these personalities were considered "to be recruited". However, it has never been clearly established whether Gelli contacted them to pursue the aims of P2.

From the content of the Plan of Democratic Reboiorth (according to the texts available on the web) there can be summarized some points of subversive reformas:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stragi-it.translate.goog/pianorinascita?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=wapp|title=Piano di rinascita democratica|language=it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250416154949/https://stragi.it/pianorinascita|archive-date=April 16, 2025|url-status=live}} (To be compared with the one produced by the Italian Parliament and [[s:it:Pagina:Piano di rinascita democratica della Loggia P2.djvu/1|linked in the picture]] of the current WP article).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archivioantimafia.org/p2/piano_rinascita_democratica.pdf|title=Piano di rinascita democratica|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/62229/il-piano-di-rinascita-democratico|language=it|author=Claudio Landi|title=Il Piano di rinascita democratico|date=May 2, 1994|access-date=April 16, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblio.toscana.it/argomento/Piano%20di%20rinascita%20democratica|title=Resources about the Piano di Rinascita Democratica|language=it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250416160729/https://biblio.toscana.it/argomento/Piano%20di%20rinascita%20democratica|archive-date=April 16, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fondazionecipriani.it/Scritti/sintesi.html|title=Summary of the Plan of Democratic Rebirth|language=it}}</ref>

===Urgent changes===
*the [[public liability]] (for [[negligence]]) of magistrates of civil and penal law;<ref>Implemented under provisions of [https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:1988-04-13;117 Law n. 117/1988] and [https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:2015-02-27;18 Law 18/2015]. Cf. {{cite web|url=https://www.altalex.com/guide/responsabilita-magistrato-guida|title=La responsabilità civile dei magistrati}}</ref>
*the regulations for career access (preliminary psycho-aptitude tests).<ref>Proposed [https://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/Ddliter/28002.htm in 2007] by [[Roberto Castelli]], declared technically impossible by the [https://www.questionegiustizia.it/articolo/test-psicoattitudinali-per-i-magistrati Italian Psychoanalytical Society], and implemented [https://tg24.sky.it/politica/2024/03/27/test-psicoattitudinali-magistrati-come-funzionano in 2024] by [[Carlo Nordio]] (starting from 2026).</ref>

===About the government===
*the "law on the Presidency of the Council and on Ministries" (Italian Constitution, art. 95) to determine responsibilities and the (reduced) number of ministers, with the elimination, or almost, of undersecretaries;
*administrative reform (in relation to articles 28, 97 and 98 of the Constitution) based on the theory of the non-administrative public act, on the clear separation of political responsibility from administrative responsibility (which becomes personal, through the institution of the Ministry's Secretary General) and on the substitution of the principle of refusal by silence with that of consent by silence;

===Economic and social measures===
*elimination of midweek public holidays and related long weekends (except for 2 June, Christmas, New Year and 15 August) to be awarded in the form of a lump sum of 7 additional days to the annual holiday entitlement;
*reduction of [[tax rate]]s on company funds allocated to reserves, amortisation, investments and guarantees, to encourage self-financing and reward the reinvestment of profit;
*granting of heavy tax relief to foreign capital investment to facilitate the repatriation of capital from abroad;
Reform of the labour market;
*+ransforming universities in Italy into foundations under [[private law]].

===TV and press===
*immediate establishment of an agency to coordinate the local press (to be acquired with subsequent operations over time) and [[cable TV]] to be set up in a chain so as to control the media and public opinion in the country.
*the multiplication of radio and TV networks in the name of antenna freedom (art. 21 of the Constitution), and the suppression of [[RAI]]. These broadcasters and newspapers were to be coordinated by a [[Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata|central press agency]].

===Trade unions===
*bring the union back to its "natural function" of "interlocutor of the productive phenomenon instead of the illegitimately assumed interlocutor in view of company and government policy decisions" the union must not get involved in politics. With this in mind, it is necessary to "limit the right to strike to economic causes and in any case ensure freedom of work";
*provide for the "restoration of individual freedom in factories and companies in general to allow the election of factory councils with effective guarantees of voting secrecy".

The first objective is linked to the issue of the insufficient definition of clear boundaries and the overlapping of powers, which weaken the State. For example:
{{blockquote|The shift of the centres of real power from Parliament to the unions and from the Government to multinational employers, with the corresponding instruments of financial action.}}

The two objectives are achieved with two hypotheses:
* urging the break-up of [[Italian Confederation of Trades Unions|CISL]] and [[Unione Italiana del Lavoro|UIL]] and subsequent union with the autonomous unions;
* control of internal currents: "acquire with financial instruments of equal entity the most available among the current confederals in order to overturn the balance of power within the current trimurti." Article 17 of the Workers' Statute prohibited the financing of fake unions. The last resort was "a sensational phenomenon such as the creation of a real union that would wave the flag of freedom of labour and economic protection of workers".

===Medium and long-term measures===
*Judicial system:
**unity of the Public Prosecutor with the other magistrates (in the current legal system, however, the Public Prosecutor is distinct from the Judges, in accordance with the Constitution – articles 107 and 112);
**reform of the High Council of the Judiciary, which must be accountable to the Italian Parliament (constitutional amendment);
**reform of the judicial system to re-establish selection criteria based on merit for the promotion of magistrates, impose age limits for prosecuting functions, separate the careers of prosecutors and judges, and reduce the {{Ill|praetorian function|it|Pretore (ordinamenti moderni)}} to an ordinary judge (in the current legal system, however, the Public Prosecutor is distinct from the Judges, in accordance with the Constitution – articles 107 and 112);
**reform of the High Council of the Judiciary, which must be accountable to the Italian Parliament (constitutional amendment);
**reform of the judicial system to re-establish selection criteria based on merit for the promotion of magistrates, impose age limits for prosecuting functions, separate the careers of prosecutors and judges, and reduce the praetorian function to that of judge to that of judge.
*Government body:
**amendment of the Constitution to establish that the Prime Minister is elected by the Chamber at the beginning of each legislature and can only be overthrown through the election of his successor;
* Parliament body:
**new electoral laws, for the Chamber of Deputies, of a mixed type (both single-member and proportional) reducing the number of deputies to 450 and, for the Senate, of 2nd degree representation, regional, of economic, social and cultural interests, reducing the number of senators to 250 and increasing from 5 to 25 the number of senators for life appointed by the president, with an increase in the relative categories (former parliamentarians, former magistrates, former public officials and entrepreneurs, former military personnel, etc.);
**pre-eminence of the Chamber of Deputies in the approval of laws; Senate of the Regions focused on the budget law.
*other constitutional organisms:
**[[Constitutional Court of Italy|Constitutional Court]]: sanction the subsequent incompatibility of judges with elective offices and in public bodies; sanction the prohibition of so-called active sentences (which transform the Court into a de facto legislative body);
**Abolish the Provinces.<ref>Implemented under provisions of [https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:2014-04-07;56!vig Law nº 56 of 7 April 2014].</ref>
**Abolish all subsidies aimed at balancing deficit budgets at the expense of the public treasury and abolish the [[RAI]] [[monopoly]].

About the role of the press:
{{blockquote|which should be solicited at the level of journalists through a selection that mainly touches: ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'', ''[[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]]'', ''[[Il Giornale]]'', ''[[La Stampa]]'', ''[[Il Resto del Carlino]]'', ''[[Il Messaggero]]'', ''[[Il Tempo]]'', ''{{Ill|Roma (newspaper)|lt=Roma|it|Roma (quotidiano)}}'', ''[[Il Mattino]]'', ''[[La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno]]'', il ''[[Giornale di Sicilia]]'' for newspapers; and for magazines: ''[[L'Europeo]]'', ''[[L'Espresso]]'', ''[[Panorama (magazine)|Panorama]]'', ''[[Epoca (magazine)|Epoca]]'', ''[[Oggi (magazine)|Oggi]]'', ''[[Gente (magazine)|Gente]]'', ''[[Famiglia Cristiana]]''. And don't forget RAI-TV.}}

===Implementation===
Although the P2 lodge was formally dissolved, many of its former members (some of whose names were not included in the published lists) continued for decades to operate and hold prominent roles in politics, the judiciary, the economy, banking systems, among others, and in cooperation with Roman Catholic bishops and high [[prelate|prelates]] who were operating in Italy in the same years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.giovannipetta.eu/sessano%20del%20molise/pecorelli_op/op_780912-signed.pdf|author=[[Mino Pecorelli]] |language=it|publisher=[[Osservatore Politico]] |title=La Gran Loggia Massonica Vaticana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908192607/http://www.giovannipetta.eu/sessano%20del%20molise/pecorelli_op/op_780912-signed.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www-unavox-it.translate.goog/ArtDiversi/DIV255a_Agnoli_Massoneria_conquista_Chiesa.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=wapp|author=Carlo Alberto Agnoli|language=it|title=La massoneria alla conquista della Chiesa|website=[[Una Voce]]}} </ref> The progressive implementation of the Plan of Democratic Rebirth has been detailed by some Italian media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Il-Piano-di-rinascita-democratica-della-P2-commentato-da-Marco-Travaglio.pdf|title=Piano di rinascita democratica|language=it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240813020113/https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Il-Piano-di-rinascita-democratica-della-P2-commentato-da-Marco-Travaglio.pdf|archive-date=August 13, 2024|url-status=live|website=[[Il Fatto Quotidiano]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilfoglio.it/giustizia/2024/03/15/news/-la-p2-ha-vinto-le-incredibili-parole-del-giudice-morello-membro-del-csm-6330522/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250416160906/https://www.ilfoglio.it/giustizia/2024/03/15/news/-la-p2-ha-vinto-le-incredibili-parole-del-giudice-morello-membro-del-csm-6330522/|archive-date=April 16, 2025|url-status=live|title='La P2 ha vinto': le incredibili parole del giudice Morello, membro del Csm|author=Ermes Antonucci|date=March 15, 2024|website=[[Il Foglio]]}}</ref>