Sprint of Dragons on justice, 5S and Lega on barricades

Rome, Gualtieri turns off the lights in the Campidoglio against the expensive bills (ANSA)

The government wants to close on the justice reform. In the morning, the cdm is scheduled which will have on the table the new package of proposals developed by Marta Cartabia and on which there are still many doubts of some majority forces, especially the M5s and the League.

There shouldn’t be a control room. But sources of the Executive assure that the proposals will be illustrated in detail by Prime Minister Draghi and the head of the Justice Department.

Proposals – they remain – characterized by a strong balance. With three distinct plans: the elected magistrates, for which there is no compromise on going back; the so-called ‘technicians’ that is the prosecutors who leave the toga to fill non-elective positions (a recent example is the prefect Luciana Lamorgese chosen for the Viminale) and the magistrates employed in the service of the state in the public apparatus. It is therefore a question of different needs to be guaranteed and above all by providing for periods of ‘settling’ or ‘cooling’ for those who, having fulfilled their public or political office, can subsequently return to the judiciary, still explains themselves in the circles of the Executive. Pending details and clarifications, the underlying discontent of some parties remains.

5 Stelle and Lega are in tension over the new proposal that reshapes the so-called ‘revolving doors’ which until now have allowed magistrates to return to their seats in court, after a political adventure (as candidates, elected or not). The issue – together with the system by which the members of the self-governing body of the judiciary are elected – risks becoming a serious bone of contention within the majority “Once a magistrate decides to enter politics, he cannot go back to dressing the toga “, marks the head of Justice of the League, Giulia Bongiorno. Salvini’s party is hammering, asking for a reform that “does not invest individual segments, but that has a profound and incisive impact on the whole system”. And he also insists on marking the ground on an issue that, after the dear bills, is very much felt, given the battle fought with the referendums promoted together with the Radicals and on which the Council will have to express itself on February 15.

They go beyond the pentastellati, which reject the hypothesis of a distinction for prosecutors who take on technical roles, for example by entering governments or councils without having candidates. “They are ad personam rules and we have already had enough of them in the past”, Giulia Sarti cut short the pentastellata. Consideration that the government does not agree with: “no ad personam rules”, replied sources accredited by the Executive. Forza Italia does not discount either, despite the yes to the basic approach of the reform: “Our ministers will not be able to vote unless there is a written text that can be examined and studied in depth”, insists Antonio Tajani from Brussels in sight of the Council of Ministers of tomorrow.

A written draft had in fact been requested by the parties – primarily FI and Action – after the meetings held in recent days with the Keeper of the Seals. And so far never received, according to multiple sources. It was a way to evaluate, in black and white, the government’s orientations with respect to the CSM, one of the pillars of the justice reform that has already changed the criminal and civil process and that Italy has undertaken to approve to obtain the funds of the Recovery . A reform urged for some time also to combat the power of political ‘currents’ within the judiciary, especially after the scandals of recent years. The discussion in the cdm will be structured on this basis. On the table, the package of amendments to the reform that the executive will propose to Parliament. After all, next Wednesday the Justice Commission should start voting precisely on the changes. In addition to the revolving doors, there is the system of election of the CSM between a binominal majority, without any list and a proportional one.

Source: Ansa

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