MESTRE (VENICE) (ITALPRESS) – “This is a vital area because the slow pace of civil justice compromises 2 percent of Italy’s GDP. We are working hard and we are far ahead and for this I thank the magistrates who are working with great energy to eliminate the backlog.” Thus Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on the occasion of “2 Years of the Meloni Government. Italy runs again” the event promoted by the center-right at the NH Laguna Palace in Venice to celebrate two years of the Meloni government. The minister addressed several issues related to Justice, stressing that one of the areas on which they are working most intensively is civil justice reform. “In our program there is the reform related to the separation of careers and the reform related to the Superior Council of the Judiciary,” specified Nordio again, who then also addressed the issue of prisons. “It is a huge attention that we are devoting to the prison problem, a problem that we are trying to solve through three strategies: the expiation of the sentence in the countries of origin; differentiated detention for those drug addicts who before being criminals are sick people; and the reduction of preventive detention through the reform of pre-trial detention. There are many other reforms standing: medical liability reform, reform of the Code of Criminal Procedure, reform on corporate rights. This is intense work to raise the level of efficiency of the Italian justice system and bring it in line with international standards regarding citizens’ rights and the presumption of innocence, which, moreover, must never be separated from the certainty of punishment.” Minister Nordio also addressed the issue of the tug-of-war between the government and the judiciary. “I do not call it such,” the Justice Minister said. “For the externalizations of some magistrates we feel obliged to recall the words of President Mattarella, who emphasized that ‘there is a division of powers and magistrates must be and also appear impartial.'”- Photo Agenzia Fotogramma -(ITALPRESS)
