The 30-year war between politics and the judiciary
Government and magistrates war? Damato's Scratches
“What am I missing”, makes Silvio Berlusconi say sarcastically on the front page of the Secolo XIX to Silvio Berlusconi in the ashes in the urn kept in the mausoleum of his villa in Arcore. It is losing, indeed it has lost, the spectacle of the latest developments of the "30 years war" between politics and the judiciary, as Giovanni Bianconi calls it in the Corriere della Sera, evoking the homonymous one that shocked Europe between 1618 and 1648, including the Italy is straying away from its unity.
It is a war between politics and the judiciary that began at the time of the "Clean Hands" investigation into the illegal financing of almost all parties. It was then that an "abrupt shift in the balance in the relationship between politics and justice" occurred, honestly complained to the Quirinale by Giorgio Napolitano in a letter circulated in full by the Presidency of the Republic itself to Anna Craxi for the tenth anniversary of the death of her husband Bettino. To whom the judiciary had reserved "unequaled harshness" as a defendant: always Napolitano's words.
Meloni, like Berlusconi, have pleasantly denounced some of her opponents, complaining on the issues of justice a continuity equal to that with Mario Draghi on the plans of the economy and foreign policy, with particular reference to the defense of Ukraine from the Russian aggression that began 500 days does. Marco Travaglio's usual Fatto Quotidiano – which dismisses the changes to the judicial system proposed by the government as "disgusting", including the constitutional separation of careers between prosecutors and judges – is convinced that Meloni is even worse than her not immediate predecessor at Palazzo Chigi. Who made laws "ad personam", that is in favor of himself, of his only "ass".
Now, however, the premier of the centre-right, indeed of the right-centre, would meditate "read ad Melones", in favor of her friends and party colleagues who have run into judicial troubles such as the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè and the Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro. Who is on the road to indictment for breach of official secrecy – “unreasonable” according to the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio – despite the dismissal of the investigations requested by the public prosecution.
According to Meloni's opponents , even her friend Ignazio La Russa, president of the Senate, would perhaps need some intervention or rescue for her son Leonardo Apache, whom he has already acquitted as a father after much interrogation on charges of rape at his home about forty days earlier.
If the intentions of the government are warlike, whose president is convinced that at least some robes have decided to flank the opposition in the long electoral campaign for the renewal -next year- of the European Parliament, those of the national association are no less of magistrates chaired by Giuseppe Santalucia, who mobilized against an alleged "delegitimization".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/guerra-magistrati-governo/ on Sun, 09 Jul 2023 06:38:41 +0000.