The more they attack, the more we push reform says Nordio

(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 7 – Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said Friday that the more Italian magistrates attack his Constitutional judicial reform plans to separate the career paths of judges and prosecutors, the more the government would push forward with the move, which would stop the two categories swapping roles as they do now and which magistrates say is aimed at bringing prosecutors under executive control.
Nordio, a former top prosecutor, has denied suggestions the government means to exert future control of prosecutions.
The career separation move has received an initial OK from parliament but will take a long time to complete as it necessitates a change to Italy’s Constitution.
Nordio said, via video link to a ceremony inaugurating the judicial year of Italian penal chambers: “We have finally managed to implement after many years that separation of careers that the criminal chambers have always carried as a banner of freedom and true culture of jurisdiction.
“We are almost halfway there, we intend to continue.
“The more they attack us and the more they try to intimidate us in various ways, the more our will to push through with the reform increases with greater strength, rigor and determination”. (ANSA).
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