ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Guaranteeism is in my DNA, even when as governor of Sicily I had aldermen under investigation to them I gave them full trust pending trials and sentences. However, know that when there is a lack of politics the magistrates take that space and want to govern, it has been happening for thirty years at least.” Thus, in an interview with La Repubblica, the Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies, Nello Musumeci, who, regarding the investigation notices to the premier and ministers on the Almasri case, comments, “It seems to me to relive with Giorgia Meloni what happened to Berlusconi. But look, it has been like this since the fall of the First Republic in 1992-94. First with Tangentopoli then with the Berlusconi governments. There is no major change. Since then, the judiciary has tended to occupy, and partly succeeded in occupying, the spaces of responsibility of politics. This has happened at a time when politics has been backward. So I am not surprised that it happens now as well.” According to Musumeci, “there is a part of the judiciary that is ideologized, that was formed in certain universities or perhaps in the FGCI. It is clear that in Italy people do not accept a government like ours and there are those who think that we need to send it home.” “I say,” he adds, “that no magistrate should think of replacing politics, especially now that politics has returned to occupy its space. An honest, clean and transparent politics. Today with Giorgia Meloni’s government we are back in authority, and the judiciary must understand and accept this. As the premier says, if someone wants to govern today they must run for office not seek other paths.” The government to prevent the judiciary from trespassing must do “what we are doing,” Musumeci stressed, “working for the country and making reforms despite certain challenges and provocations: rejecting for the umpteenth time the repatriations from Albania is a mistake and people are beginning to understand this. We have polls, confidential and not public, that tell us that Italians agree with Meloni and not with the togas.” And to the question whether he agrees with the idea of taking to the streets “against the interference of some magistrates,” launched by an FdI questionnaire, the minister replied, “I’ll say one thing: the squares belong to our genetic code, for us right-wingers the square was the only place where we could speak to the Italians, so we are fond of it. I hope there will be dialogue again.” And on the Santanchè case, “it cannot be a notice of guarantee that makes a minister or a public administrator resign. When as governor some aldermen, under investigation, came to me presenting their resignation I always rejected them. Until final judgment there are no convicted persons. There is then a p roblem of expediency, in some cases, and this is a personal matter. But I say this beyond Santanchè’s personal affair.”
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Musumeci “On the issue of Justice, the polls reward us.”
