Justice, the priorities of Meloni who does not want to affect the relationship with the Quirinale-Corriere.it

In the’summer of 1997 the Bicameral was close to a bipartisan agreement on justice reform. But when an agreement on the separation of careers was revealed, the reaction of the robes blew everything up.

Even now the separation of careers is the heart of the conflict, to the point that the ANM – regardless of parliamentary prerogatives – has defined this hypothesis as a danger to democracy. But unlike twenty-six years ago, there is no immediate systemic overhaul of justice in sight. the government to stall. The Minister of Justice’s decision to present an overall bill by the end of the year had the effect of blocking the work of the commission on the separation of careers in the Chamber. Brothers of Italy the only party that has not filed a bill on the matter. And as for the rest, such as the reform of the CSM, according to a member of the executive in the ministry, the magistrates who are in the majority in the commission delegated to draft the text are winning.

In short, the ball in the stands. If and when it will be replayed will depend on the political direction Meloni wants to give, explains a government representative. But at this juncture, the prime minister has other priorities and there are many reasons which lead her to maintain her relationship with the Quirinale, to share the need to keep tensions low. Although (even) yesterday it was the magistrates who stirred the waters. The legal cases that have hit your party, Nordio’s professorial approach on sensitive issues for a Keeper of the Seals and Salvini’s antagonistic game, lead you to a line of prudence. It needs time. In the meantime, from Vilnius you have started to put your house in order, according to an FdI executive. Where the executioner soul looks when it comes to separation of careers: It would be confusing….

And then Meloni has to manage the maneuvers of the Northern League ally, who – they tell from the Council of Ministers – on even days he is the forcaiolo and on odd days he rediscovers himself as guarantor. Yesterday was an odd day: having understood that justice will go on for a long time, Salvini called the reform an urgency for the country. I count on moving from words to deeds as soon as possible. His situationist approach has one goal: to distance himself from the premier, let it wear out and put it at a crossroads. In the event that he in fact aimed to launch the premiership, sealing it with a referendum, Meloni would have to decide whether to also take on a referendum on the separation of careers, which is much less popular.

Justice can produce more or less involuntary chain reactions in the political framework: we will see how Forza Italia will react in the event of a deadlock in the reform. There is a reason so if Renzi has decided to move to the Senate Justice Commission, and has been defending Berlusconi’s memory for days by the judiciary. An operation has been underway in the Palace for some time in view of next year’s polls. With the cry of centrists of Italy unite, we reason around a list that brings together pro-Europeans from Forza Italia to Italia viva, passing through regional formations and national Catholic movements, such as the one gathered yesterday by Fioroni. Renzi, given Calenda’s repeated no to launch a single list for the Europeans, responded to the requests with a reasoning.

It seems an unrealistic hypothesis, because – taking advantage of the proportional system – it would have to bring together pieces of the majority and the opposition, an expression moreover of different European families. And in addition Tajani, who will take over the leadership of Forza Italia today, has made it known that he is against it. Yet something is moving, if it is true that Moratti has taken charge of probing the Berlusconi family and Renzi has mentioned it to Meloni. It would be a non-hostile operation towards the prime minister, to whom both Moratti (during the Assolombarda convention) and Fioroni (at the Tempi Nuovi meeting) sent clear conciliatory signals. The Forza Italia junction. But for Meloni, finding Renzi at the door shouldn’t be reassuring, despite him repeating that Giorgia must last five years. There is already Salvini, there is justice, there is everything else. There is already the electoral campaign.

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