they aim to scare us to stop the reforms – Corriere.it

All a Palazzo Chigistarting with Giorgia Meloni, they had expected a reaction (even harsh) from the magistrates. But when the blow came, the Prime Minister let the surprise leak out for the blows that the president of the ANM Santalucia addressed to the majority. The accusation of wanting to delegitimize a crucial state power and the request to respect constitutional prerogatives clearly put the executive in difficulty. Now the dilemma for the Melonians to find a balance between defense and attack and prove that one is to blame clash that threatens to bring Italy back six decades not of Palazzo Chigi, nor of via Arenula, but of that band of the judiciary which partisanally, and at the push of the left, would have opened the electoral challenge for the Europeans.

Giorgia Meloni doesn’t want to go to war against the judges, or at least she didn’t want to. a clash that does not suit anyone and we were not the ones to look for it – she repeats in these difficult times to say the least -. We are not the ones who raised the tone first. But something very serious happened and the government’s reaction was forced. The conviction at the top of the Brothers of Italy and of the executive that a part of the judiciary has moved to stop the reform of justice by Carlo Nordio and has instrumentally used first the case of the minister Daniela Santanch and then that of the undersecretary Andrea Delmastro. But the assault failed, the message that comes from the upper levels of the government, because Meloni does not back down and the new rules will go ahead. Accelerate towards separation of careers It is not a spite, nor a revenge, because it is the turning point in the electoral program of the centre-right.

The line (hard) does not change. Now for fear of slipping back into the season Berlusconi of the permanent war between power and the robes it also winds its way through Palazzo Chigi. The undersecretary-magistrate made it clear Alfredo Mantovano, when he said that the problem of the interference of some judicial initiatives on political activity concerns everyone, center-right and center-left, and in 30 years it has affected all governments. An attempt to mediate, to convince the parties to overcome conflicts and not feed a fire that certainly does not help the institutions. Opposition parties look to the Quirinale, but it has not been said that President Mattarella will return from Paraguay he would like to make public his state of mind on the tug of war between the government and the magistrates.

Giorgia Meloni feels under attack and does nothing to hide the syndrome of the blockhouse besieged by a certain established power, who does not want to surrender to the victory of the right. The investigation into Santanch for bankruptcy and false accounting and the forced indictment of Delmastro, accused of revealing official secrecy on the case of the anarchist Cospito, lived in theentourage of the premier as a warning to scare us. The theorem is essentially this: There is a political trend that sees in some gowns a tool to change the balance of power without respecting the vote of the Italians and consensus. And this political trend, according to the Melonians, would lead to some bigwigs of the Pd: They think we can’t govern because we would be racist, fascist, homophobic and they try to bring us down using individual magistrates.

The right-wing leader’s first reaction was to protect her people. Delmastro doesn’t touch himself and Santanch can sleep peacefully, for some more time. Although the minister’s position also embarrasses many Northern League, Azzurri and FdI exponents, the premier would be tempted to resist even a possible indictment. The model is the case of the undersecretary Augusta Montaruliappointed to the government despite a second-degree conviction and forced to resign only after the Supreme Court ruling. As for Ignazio La Russa, there are two schools of thought among his colleagues. There are those who include the story of the son in the alleged assault of the judges on the right and who instead thinks that the second office of state should have bitten its tongue before defending the third child Leonard Apache accused of sexual assault and fueling doubts about the author of the complaint.

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