Government, the debate on abuse of office is animated. Sisto: “We’ll go all the way, Nordio doesn’t give discounts”

“Anything that changes in the measures announced on abuse of office and trafficking of influences? We are determined to carry through with our proposal and the minister Nordius from this point of view it will not make discounts. We are with him belonging to the same dicastery. However, Parliament is sovereign. If the Parliament were to change it is welcome, this is parliamentary democracy”. The Deputy Minister of Justice, Francesco Paolo Sistoon Radio Anch’io, comments on the moves of the Minister of Justice who was stopped yesterday by the right arm of Giorgia Meloni, Alfredo Mantovanoon the external complicity in mafia association, another crime that Nordio would like to reformulate.

Sisto reiterates that the Minister of Justice will continue on the abuse of office, yesterday at the center of the one-hour “cordial and constructive” meeting at the Quirinale between the premier and the head of state Sergio Mattarellaafter having seen the leaders of the Cassation.

Something will change, Meloni promises, also opening up a path of sharing on the separation of careers. A theme on which Sisto himself now comments: “In the judiciary it finds foundation in the Constitution. The latter, in fact, in article 104, establishes that the judiciary is an autonomous and independent order. Article 111, however, clarifies that only the judge is third party and impartial. Obviously, autonomy and independence are ‘sacred’ and untouchable principles for all magistrates, including public prosecutors”, the deputy justice minister explained to Radio Anch’io who then observed on the discretion of criminal prosecution: “It is possible that within of the work on the reform we can also discuss the mandatory nature of criminal prosecution, but at the moment the proposals simply propose to separate careers according to the Constitution”. The ANM makes itself heard on the separation of careers: “Making criminal action a discretionary action, and then certainly sooner or later under political control, we see it as a dangerous thing for democracy – argues the president of the National Association of Magistrates , Joseph Santalucia, also on Radio Anch’io – The separation of careers is a reform that opens up to others, because the separation should then be followed by the discretion of criminal action. A prosecutor separated from the jurisdiction and therefore outside those compensation and control mechanisms that the Constitution provides, will we leave him alone or will there be someone else who will aspire to control the prosecution? And that can only be political control.”

As for the external competition for a mafia association, Sisto instead adds: “The day before yesterday, in the meeting at the Ministry on the timetable, the theme of the external competition was not dealt with or included. There is certainly a historic legal debate on the subject, because it is a rule written by jurisprudence, which in a system like ours is considered an anomaly”.