(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 16 – Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on Thursday said a Constitutional reform bill to separate the career paths of prosecutors and judges which received its first green light from the Lower House will foster the independence of the judiciary and not hinder it, as alleged by its opponents.
“The mother of all reforms, which is the separation of careers, and especially the institution of the High Court of Justice, and the draw of magistrates will have a series of positive consequences for the judiciary itself”, said Nordio, addressing the Senate.
The bill also creates a high court to discipline members of the judiciary and changes the make-up of the judiciary’s self-governing body, the CSM, overhauling the way CSM justices are elected, using a draw process.
“The judiciary today is independent from the executive power, and it must be and will remain so but it is not independent from itself at all”, said Nordio, adding that members of the judiciary depend on factions within the judiciary’s union, the National Association of Magistrates (ANM), that “keep them under protection”. Nordio said the reform will “break this pathological connection that unites the voter and the elected” in the judiciary’s self-governing body, the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM), “which finds its most pathological manifestation in the disciplinary branch”. (ANSA).
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“The mother of all reforms, which is the separation of careers, and especially the institution of the High Court of Justice, and the draw of magistrates will have a series of positive consequences for the judiciary itself”, said Nordio, addressing the Senate.
The bill also creates a high court to discipline members of the judiciary and changes the make-up of the judiciary’s self-governing body, the CSM, overhauling the way CSM justices are elected, using a draw process.
“The judiciary today is independent from the executive power, and it must be and will remain so but it is not independent from itself at all”, said Nordio, adding that members of the judiciary depend on factions within the judiciary’s union, the National Association of Magistrates (ANM), that “keep them under protection”. Nordio said the reform will “break this pathological connection that unites the voter and the elected” in the judiciary’s self-governing body, the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM), “which finds its most pathological manifestation in the disciplinary branch”. (ANSA).
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