ROME (ITALPRESS) – The sending of the notice of guarantee to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ministers Carlo Nordio and Matteo Piantedosi and undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano is “a prodigious attack on the government carried out by that judiciary that does not tolerate justice reform.” Thus, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, Foreign Minister and leader of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, according to whom “it is so reminiscent of when Berlusconi in ’94 received the notice of guarantee in Naples while presiding over the UN summit on crime.” It is reminiscent in “everything, starting with the timing,” he stresses. “Right on the eve of the parliamentary debate on the Almasri affair, when the ministers of the Interior and Justice are going to appear in Parliament to explain the affair, a notice arrives without any sense. “But what judicial profiling! Embezzlement, aiding and abetting, what are we talking about? The ministers such as Undersecretary Mantovano,” Tajani stressed, “have acted correctly, the affair has already been explained, then to involve the premier as well is absolutely meaningless… My ministry has no competence in the matter, but it seems so obvious to me what happened: the judges released him and the government expelled him because he was dangerous. For Tajani, the proceedings “should never have been opened. It doesn’t make any sense. A notice on a political fact with this timing. Investigation on the complaint of a leftist lawyer accepted by the prosecutor who had already investigated Salvini with the results we see, and that faction of magistrates who at the opening of the judicial year marched with the Constitution in their hands in protest, an unheard of act. This notice is a dangerous blowing on the fire, not from men of institutions.” Asked if it ties him to the magistrates’ protest, he replied, “Definitely yes. And one does not understand this protest. Magistrates have their own venues to express their positions on a reform-the ANM, hearings in Parliament-but they cannot issue acts such as a warning to oppose a government. Because democracy is based on the separation of powers, which is being blown up here by increasingly high attacks and tones.” “We,” Tajani explains, “are just doing the reform that we announced in our program and that was wanted by the citizens, since they voted for us. One can disagree, but one cannot prevent a government and a majority from reforming justice, moreover without forcing it. “The justice reform includes the separation of careers “exactly, as Falcone also asked for. We give maximum independence and autonomy to judges, as a third party, we certainly do not want pm to depend on the government. We have never proposed that. We are not against magistrates, in fact we want to enhance the role of the judiciary magistrate. And we say enough of currents, because a magistrate is a magistrate, a man of the state, he should not represent a political side, as he was in the days of Magistratura Democratica, an arm of the PCI.” “I know,” Tajani continued, “that every time something is touched on justice, the attack starts. It was so against Berlusconi, then for Salvini, now it is Meloni’s turn. That Constitution that some magistrates have waved should read it better because it says the exact opposite of what they say: power belongs to the people and reforms are written by Parliament.” As for Minister Santanchè, who has been indicted, “these are different things. In one case there are the actions of a private citizen, in the other the political actions of the government. That said, we are guarantors until the end, it will be Santanchè who will assess whether or not she should remain a minister.”- Photogram Agency -(ITALPRESS).
