Will the justice reform execute Conte?
What happens in the government and among the 5 stars on the reform of justice
At least the news on the negotiations in the majority for the reform of the criminal trial is uncertain: trial at risk of guillotine – according to the representation of the cartoon by Emilio Giannelli on the front page of Corriere della Sera – if the appeal does not reach a sentence from two to the three years, according to the offenses, and in the Supreme Court from 12 to 18 months. This is how they foresee the changes developed by the Council of Ministers about twenty days ago and challenged by the Grillini, although their ministers had approved them by competing in a unanimous vote.
According to the information of some newspapers, including Il Dubbio , an agreement would have been reached behind the scenes of the Justice Commission of the Chamber, where the provision remained for another week after the postponement of the landing in the Montecitorio court originally set for 23 July. The agreement would consist in protecting from the guillotine, which would be the "inadmissibility" coined by the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia, all crimes in some way configurable as terrorism and the mafia, including those of so-called and controversial external competition in mafia association or those municipalities for which the prosecution, however, asks for the aggravating mafia. This happened in Rome, it will be remembered, for the so-called "Mafia capital". Which was then denied by the judges in the sentences, limited to common crime.
According to other newspapers – also due to the changes of a somewhat retaliatory nature announced by the center-right components of the majority on several fronts, such as that of the abuse of office contested against the mayors with such frequency, and arbitrariness, as to paralyze local administrations – it would still be in the "quagmire", as the Republic has titled, or hanging "by a thread", according to Il Mattino . Other newspapers, in order not to be mistaken, have excluded the topic of the front pages.
The Superior Council of the Judiciary, on the other hand, did not have any scruples, where the sixth commission hastily updated its opinion, extending it from the non-passability to the whole provision to have it discussed in the plenum as early as tomorrow. It is not known whether it will be an exam more in competition with or coinciding with the Justice Commission of the Chamber, without therefore being able to materially know the text intended for the Chamber of Deputies.
Apart from the relevant "technical" aspects, as they are often too casually defined by those who try to reduce the political impact, of the whole affair of the negotiations opened in the majority on the changes originally prepared unanimously by the Council of Ministers, with much of booking the so-called question of trust in order to secure its examination in the courtroom in the Chamber, the suspicion has become increasingly strong that a question unrelated to the merits of the reform of the criminal trial has become central. This is the fate of the still virtual leadership of Giuseppe Conte in the 5 Star Movement: a leadership conditioned by the ability of the professor and lawyer to wrest from the interlocutors Mario Draghi and Marta Cartabia the digestible changes of the majority of the turbulent Grillini parliamentarians.
More than the future of the criminal trial, the future of Conte seems to be at stake in the MoVimento which should digitally elect him president, next to or below – we will see only in fact – to the founder, guarantor and whatever else Beppe Grillo.
So it is, if you like, the good soul of Luigi Pirandello would say to the skeptics.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-riforma-della-giustizia-giustiziera-conte/ on Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:00:23 +0000.