PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – A protest, unified and silent, to say no to the Nordio reform involving the separation of careers. From North to South, magistrates openly expressed their discontent: they sang Mameli’s hymn, then stood up en bloc, wearing their robes with tricolor cockades and holding a copy of the Constitution; then left the courtroom as soon as a government representative took the floor. From Palermo to Milan, via Rome and especially Naples, where Justice Minister Carlo Nordio spoke, the response was the same, as per the “program” chosen in recent days by the ANM. “I want to reiterate one term: independence. It is necessary to always emphasize the principle of the judge’s thirdness, which must not only be kept intimately by each one of us, but must also be perceived externally, especially in times of distrust like the ones we are going through,” said the president of the Court of Appeal of Cagliari, Gemma Cucca, effectively summing up the concepts expressed in all the 26 Courts of Appeal in Italy.
And while the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, from the Milan ceremony he attended, stressed that “positions may also be different and divergent, but they must find a synthesis in a serious confrontation. And then, as long as everything is within the framework of the Constitution, no one can arrogate to himself the right to cancel what are the decisions that Parliament takes but must take them having the ability to listen and confrontation,” Nordio from Naples explained that “all opinions are welcome, all manifestations of dissent, and I thank everyone for an extremely composed demonstration, are the salt of democracy, but that one can think that a minister of 30 years in the judiciary and three years at the head of the investigation into the Red Brigades, that a former magistrate can have as his goal the humiliation of the judiciary to which he belonged, I
I find particularly improper.”
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