Nordio explains the justice reform to Il Foglio: “Protect the citizen, avoid the pillory”. Today the CDM

The day after Silvio Berlusconi’s funeral, politics – the government – goes back to work. And it does so with a Council of Ministers that will have justice at the center, one of the themes that have most marked the political experience of the Cav., in an attempt to overcome the distortions and degeneration of the judicial system, in the name of guaranteeism, The sense of the provision, a turning point, it’s all in the words that Carlo Nordio delivered to the Foglio: “Betting on a new guaranteed hegemony means emphasizing the presumption of innocence: protecting the citizen’s freedom and honor before the trial, avoiding exposure to the media pillory, while respecting the freedom of the press“, said the Minister of Justice. A new phase and a new balance, in which protections are guaranteed on the one hand for those under investigation, and above all innocent up to the third degree of judgement, and on the other the right to news, and not the one in the media pillory, as has happened too many times in recent years.

But there’s more. Because a justice reform in this sense is a reform that strengthens the role of those who are elected, of Parliament and of all institutions. It means, as Nordio explained again, “free politics from the mortgages of investigations, remembering that even governments have fallen as a result of investigations that later turned out to be unfounded”.

A theoretical framework which, in substance, as we anticipated yesterday in this journal, translates intorepeal of abuse of office and in modification of the offense of trafficking in illicit influences. And then in the eavesdropping reform to strengthen the privacy of third parties – those who find themselves on the front pages without even being investigated – and in a intervention on precautionary measures, aimed at ensuring greater discussion between the parties, in short, more protection for all, more freedom. And finally, action will be taken to limit the public prosecutor’s power of appeal, with which it is intended to exclude the possibility “the prosecution body can appeal against acquittal sentences relating to crimes of limited gravity”: the certainty of judgment.

The appointment is at 18, at Palazzo Chigi. The path to a new and more balanced justice starts here.