Giovanni Pitruzzella is not simply a "Prince of the Forum". Since November last year, from the windows of his office, on the highest hill in Rome, he has seen the Quirinale flag and the first spire of St. Peter's. From the top of the very powerful Competition and Market Authority to the top levels of the Republic, the highest, in the hierarchical scale of law and laws. Sergio Mattarella, the Head of State himself, called him to the Court of Courts.
Fra' Ignazio & Quirinale
The appointment as Constitutional Judge is not a "divine gift", if anything the recognition of a brilliant career, all played between Constitutional Law and Public Law. In Sardinia he is not unknown. His rise began on the climb of Viale Fra Ignazio, in the university heart of Cagliari. It was there, in the "cradle" of Sardinian jurists, that his university career began: associate professor of Public Law Institutions in the Faculty of Political Sciences. His academic rise is entirely Sardinian, from 1994 to 1997, again at the Cagliari university, he became full professor of Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law. It will remain in the shadows of university classrooms for a short time. First Azeglio Ciampi, Prime Minister and future President of the Republic, and then Lamberto Dini want him at Palazzo Chigi as a legal consultant. The turning point came in 2011. As a constitutional expert expert in public procurement law, the Presidents of the Chamber and Senate called him to the highest position in the country in matters of competition and markets.
Competition, the “verb”
From the year of his appointment as President of the Authority until 2018 he was the "word" of the Antitrust , the Competition and Market Guarantor Authority. A key place to establish what is competitive and what is not, the "conclave" where it is established whether there is a monopoly or a free market. When Giovanni Pitruzzella wrote to the Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber, to the President of the Council of Ministers, to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and to Enac, the National Civil Aviation Authority, it was 5 July 2017. A letter entirely focused on on the privatization of airports, the obligations to be followed, the rules to be applied. A peremptory letter that seems to have been written well in advance to "stop" the privatization operation of Cagliari airport.
