The usual vice of the left: where the votes do not arrive, the courts arrive
Lega leader Matteo Salvini was indicted in Palermo for the case of the Open Arms ship. The story dates back to the summer of 2019, when the then Minister of the Interior denied the landing at the port of Lampedusa of 147 illegal immigrants who were on board the ship of the NGO Open Arms . It is well documented that the ship in question refused the destination offered by the Spanish government chaired by the socialist Pedro Sanchez, the port of Algeciras, and deliberately chose, as well explained by some Malta- Open Arms correspondence, to loiter in the Mediterranean with a single goal: to reach Italy.
The former Minister of the Interior will have to answer before the judges the charges of kidnapping and refusal of official documents. Salvini said he was calm and ready for the trial, however observing how this judicial affair demonstrates that the courts are used for politics and is therefore very dangerous, because it creates a precedent.
The words of Luca Palamara, who in an intercepted conversation with another magistrate explained how Salvini should still be attacked, although he was right, are finding confirmation.
The leader of the League claims his work as a minister, reiterating that he only defended the interests of his country and that all the decisions taken in those hectic hours were the children of a clear political orientation of the Conte government. Not personal decisions, but shared collegially by the entire yellow-green Executive.
We must not forget that the authorization to proceed against Salvini was voted by the yellow-red majority, a method seen and reviewed: when it fails to defeat the political opponent in the polls, the left tries to bring him down through the courts. It has been like this for many years with Silvio Berlusconi and now Matteo Salvini is in the sights of this scandalous modus operandi .
The agenda of the majority political leaders in this period should be occupied by meetings and activities aimed at restarting the country after the health emergency, not full of hearings of political trials. Judges should not be given the power to review the political acts of a government. Unfortunately, however, we are once again faced with a reality that undermines the principle of the separation of powers, one of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law and liberal democracy.
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