Anm, Casciaro: “The government undermines citizens’ trust in judges”

“It is false and undermines citizens’ trust in the judiciary” to “speak of magistrates who take the field, carrying out political action alongside the opposition”, as the notes “filtered from Palazzo Chigi and via Arenula” did . This is due to the “mere fact” that a judge, “doing his job conscientiously and dealing with a file that concerns a politician by pure chance, takes a specific decision”. This was stated by the secretary general of the ANM Salvatore Casciaro, interviewed by Radio anch’io broadcast on Radio Rai 1 and reiterating that this “means delegitimizing the judiciary”.

And he added: “We have been experiencing a season of permanent reforms for a couple of years, all sectors of the law have been affected to a certain extent and that the magistrates have expressed opinions in this regard, sometimes contrary, is completely physiological”. Again: “But exchanging reasoned criticisms, based on serious elements – he continues – for preconceived opposition is not enough to question what is obvious or that it is up to the political forces, legitimized by popular consensus, to decide the reforms they deem most appropriate”.

According to Casciano then “the essence of the magistrate’s work is impartiality and impartiality – explains Casciaro – to support at the highest institutional levels that these qualities are lacking, without distinction, in a large segment of the judiciary, means delegitimizing a state institution”.