Meloni outclasses Nordio in the attack on the magistrates
From Giorgia Meloni's reaction to the investigating judge's decision to refuse the dismissal requested by the public prosecution for investigations into the abuse of violation of official secrecy by the Undersecretary of Justice, Delmastro, emerges a significant harmony between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice, indeed more than a harmony… I Graffi di Damato
In the face of those who, in spite of the photos that contradicted them, have done their utmost in recent months to imagine and represent in articles and newspaper headlines the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni annoyed, alarmed and so on by the too harsh relationship of her Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio, already nominated by you in the last legislature for the Quirinale, with the former magistrate colleagues and their representation. That from a trade union which it should be for an association it has long been tending to be also institutional, bypassing the Superior Council of the Judiciary.
First the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office – with the confirmation of the investigations into false accounting and bankruptcy underway since October against the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè, who also continues to claim that she has never received a guarantee notice before reporting to the Senate of the her problems as an entrepreneur in difficulty – and then the court of Rome – with the refusal of the judge of the preliminary investigations to refuse the dismissal requested by the public prosecution for the investigations into the abuse of violation of official secrecy by the undersecretary of Justice, Andrea Delmastro – provoked a reaction from Meloni at Palazzo Chigi of unparalleled harshness.
In full political and human solidarity with both friends, as well as colleagues from the party and government, the prime minister has released a note that could not be more explicit in the attack. “It is legitimate to wonder – he says – whether a segment of the judiciary has chosen to play an active opposition role and has thus decided to inaugurate the electoral campaign for the European elections prematurely”. A campaign in which the government in general and Meloni in particular, with her project to somehow export the center-right at the level of the European Union, practically everything is at stake.
The severe note from Palazzo Chigi, in which Massimo Franco in the Corriere della Sera viewed reductively, but also polemically, "the (wrong) temptation to wall against wall", which has now become more than a temptation, was translated from the cartoon by Stefano Rolli on the 19th century in underlining a "role of opposition" assumed by the judiciary because it was essentially "vacant" due to the divisions between the noisy and intolerant groups and parties of the no to parliamentary trust.
Naturally, the union of robes did not like it, evidently no longer being able to count on a dialectic, let's call it that, within the government even between the Prime Minister and the Keeper of the Seals on the old problem that has been dragging on for thirty years of a rebalancing of the relationship between politics and justice. Which was "abruptly changed" at the time of the investigations into the illegal financing of parties, to repeat a formula used with admirable frankness by Giorgio Napolitano when he was at the Quirinale, and he hoped that constitutional normality could be re-established.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/meloni-surclassa-nordio-nellattacco-ai-magistrati/ on Fri, 07 Jul 2023 06:08:53 +0000.