“Forward with the reform. Politics stop bowing to the criticisms of the judiciary ”, says Nordio

Looking forward to a position statement Prime Ministerengaged abroad for the NATO summit in Vilnius, is the Minister of Justice to deal with the internal woes of the government in an interview given to the newspaper Libero. The Keeper of the Seals tries partially to dilute the tensions which came into being with the national association of magistrates following the “unofficial” note from Palazzo Chigi in which the judiciary was accused of playing an active opposition role.

“I refuse to think of magistrates who want to interfere in government action through judicial actions,” he says Nordiusto then state however that the real problem in the politics-judiciary relationship is given, in his opinion, by the loss of decision-making autonomy of the first in the face of the criticisms of the second: “The fault lies with politics which has renounced its pre-eminent role and which has bowed down in front of the criticisms of the judiciary”, he explains.

The minister, addressing the various issues of the justice reform presented by the government, it also makes some references to the judicial cases that are creating havoc in the majority. On the Del Mastro case he is keen to point out that he has been a strong critic of the law on theforced indictment, having judged it as incongruous for technical reasons already in his first book on justice. Another topic present in the reform of the Justice is that relating to warranty noticestopical matter given the Santanché affair. “There is a part that concerns the collateral information and essentially its secrecy […] the structure of the register of suspects and of the guarantee information will have changed”, affirms the minister.

Then widening the gaze and explaining the overall view of the executive, Nordio declares that the government’s goal is to “completely implement what was the will of Professor Vassalli and implement it completely, or rather create an Anglo-Saxon accusatory code”.

Two other topics of discussion in the context of judicial reform are theabolition of abuse of office and the separation of careers. On the first topic Nordius he replies to some criticisms: “Among the many inaccuracies that I have heard in recent days there would be that of opposition from Europe. Already twenty days ago in Luxembourg and the other day in Tokyo I met personally with the Commissioner for Justice in Europe Didier Reynders who declared himself perfectly satisfied with the explanations I provided and there is no reason to doubt that Europe has something to say”. He further adds that the argument is substantially shared across the board by local administrators of any political area, who all agree that the only way to solve the problems caused by the law is to abolish it entirely. On the separation of careers, for the moment the minister deflects the discussion, recalling how the current proposal under discussion in Parliament was presented by an opposition party and that such a standard would require a constitutional reformrecalling however that “this is however in the government program”

In conclusion Nordio, commenting on the situation within the government after the chaos generated by the various judicial cases of members of the executive, he declares himself optimistic arguing that the case of Russia (last in chronological order after Santanché and Del Mastro) will not weaken the majority, because “the vicissitudes of single people are unfortunately vicissitudes of life which must be commented on in the appropriate places but which cannot and must not have political consequences”.