Justice according to Giorgia Meloni
Advances and brakes of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, on justice. Guiglia's notebook
Only in authoritarian countries do politicians and magistrates get along in love and get along. Where, on the other hand, the separation of powers reigns, the root of democracy and a guarantee that justice is the same for everyone, the diversity of ideas between those who are called to make the laws and those who apply them is natural.
But if there is one lesson that can be drawn from the thirty years' war between Silvio Berlusconi and the robes, especially the "red" ones as he called them, it is that institutions and society have nothing to gain from permanent and preconceived hostility between the government and the judiciary via Parliament.
“NO CLASH WITH THE JUDGMENT”, MELONI ASSURES
It now seems to have understood Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister who, despite her personal and political history of a right-wing "law and order", had also "taken the field" to defend the exponents of her party and her government drawn into dance in investigations for which the obligation of the presumption of innocence of the suspects intersects with the reported news stories. And therefore the political controversy is inevitable.
Meloni now assures that "there is no clash with the judiciary" and meets the head of state, Sergio Mattarella , who is also president of the Superior Council of the judiciary, thereby confirming the common institutional will to lower any tension. But it cannot be said that all the majority proceed in the same direction.
THE TWO PLANS OF INTERVENTIONS ON JUSTICE
It is as if there were two levels of intervention on justice.
In the upper one, the center-right discusses "separation of careers", of "remodulating the external competition in mafia association" (words of the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, disavowed however by Palazzo Chigi), of reviewing the crime of trafficking in influence and other highly debatable issues. Therefore worthy of an Academy comparison in point of law.
On the other hand, on the lower floor, acts count more than theories, and citizens are asking for quick trials and certainty of punishment. The gentleman robbed and the lady mugged would like to go back to believing that it is worth denouncing the rampant and mortifying impunity.
There is a major issue of "unjust injustice" in Italy that the chaotic Cartabia reform has not helped to resolve, and that the Nordio reform now being signed by the Quirinale would do well to tackle head-on.
Perhaps leaving plan A of the great principles on hold to focus immediately on plan B of the rights of citizens and the duties of their rulers.
Published in L'Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza and Bresciaoggi
www.federicoguiglia.com
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giustizia-meloni-scontro-magistratura/ on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:44:57 +0000.