Violante helps the Meloni government on politics and the judiciary
On politics and justice, illuminating interview by Luciano Violante, former magistrate, former head of justice problems for the PCI, former president of the Antimafia and of the Chamber. Damato's Scratches
Struck by the "high voltage" that has returned to relations with the judiciary, Paolo Mieli criticizes the government in the Corriere della Sera editorial which, like others for about thirty years now, has "lost the light of reason and denounces the conspiracy" for "two, three (but also four, five, six) judicial initiatives clearly unrelated to each other against a member of the majority", and even more. This time, for example, there are two: the minister Daniela Santanchè and the undersecretary Andrea Delmastro, both friends and party colleagues of the premier.
WHAT LUCIANO VIOLANTE THINKS ABOUT POLITICS AND THE JUDGMENT
Even the Meloni government will have lost the light of reason, I repeat, but only seven pages after the first of the same Corriere is found, unfortunately without a shred of reference next to or under Mieli's editorial, an illuminating interview by Luciano Violante, former magistrate , already responsible for the problems of justice for the PCI, former president of the Antimafia and of the Chamber, in which he recognizes at least one extenuating factor in this as in other governments that preceded him in feeling "surrounded". It is that of having to face every year, every day and every hour, between elections of various kinds, polls and controversies, perhaps around judicial reports, the judgment of those who vote.
The problem, according to Violante, must be sought "at its root". Which is the right of politics, indeed the need to recover "sovereignty" gradually reduced and finally spontaneously lost "since the 1980s", well before the judicial earthquake that overwhelmed the so-called First Republic. It all began, in particular, when politics delegated to the judiciary, already busy with trials, the task of fighting terrorism and the mafia on the front lines.
WHAT VIOLANTE THINKS ABOUT JUSTICE REFORM
Now, always according to Violante, it is time to give politics back its sovereignty, precisely, evidently with a serious reform of justice, even if he disagrees with some of the government's proposals or projects: for example, the separation of careers between judges and prosecutors and prosecutors, who are already separated and how. This is demonstrated by the forced indictment of the Undersecretary of Justice Delmastro, ordered by a judge against the dismissal of the investigations requested by the public prosecution. It is known that Violante has been expecting for some time, rather, a separation of careers between the magistrates who investigate and the journalists who report on it.
From the current government and its projects, the magistrates and their association, if we don't want to call it a union, can also disagree but not by posing and acting as a "counterparty". Which they are not, because it is Parliament that makes the laws.
Now to this umpteenth institutional, civil and political lesson from Violante I hope that no cretin will react by insinuating again, 81 years old and six from the expiry of Sergio Mattarella's second term, that he aspires to gain the approval of the right to rise at the Quirinal.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/violante-governo-meloni-politica-magistratura/ on Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:47:42 +0000.