“Without separation between prosecutors and judges abroad they think we are crazy”
“No bill, by definition, is locked down, because Parliament will discuss and decide in a sovereign manner. Naturally, the overall structure of the reform will remain solid. Careers will be separate”. Justice Minister Carlo Nordio says this in an interview with the ‘Giornale’. ”Today the prosecutors, i.e. the accusers, give their votes to the judges. When we try to explain this extravagance to our foreign colleagues, they think we are crazy. At the last G7 in Venice, the American Attorney General and the British Lord Chancellor didn’t understand me and I began to doubt my English. Then I realized that they didn’t understand the concept: I explained myself better, and they were frozen’‘.
For Nordio the problem is not the dinners or coffees between prosecutors and judges but ”it’s that if the accused knew that his accuser was influencing the career of his judge, he would not be at peace. And he would be right”. As for the choice of election for draw of CSM councilorsthe minister explains that ”the system in force today creates a more or less clientelistic bond between the voter and the elected. I would like all the candidates for the CSM to swear on their honor that they have never picked up the phone to ask their colleagues for votes, perhaps speaking badly of others. And that as many magistrates swore, on their honor, that they had never asked for favors from those they voted for and helped elect. The draw will break this decrepit system, and every magistrate will be freer”.
In this way ‘‘the currents will remain, and it is right that they remain, but in their original function: to make a cultural contribution of different orientations. But for some time they have degenerated into a ”dividing” pathology denounced by the magistrates themselves, and never corrected. It is the one that created the Palamara system and that many commentators have defined as a ‘worm farm’ or a ‘cow market”.
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