The Council of Ministers approved the reform of the CSM and the judiciary with the rules on stopping revolving doors. According to what is learned, the green light was unanimous. The summit at Palazzo Chigi ended about ten minutes after 2 pm. Initially called at 10, it was postponed to 11, and began after 12 due to a further postponement requested by Forza Italia. Not surprisingly, the Council of Ministers was preceded by a meeting between the Prime Minister, the Keeper of the Seals Marta Cartabia and the heads of delegation of the majority forces, to undo the problems of the reform on the self-governing body of the judiciary.
Draghi: no faith in reform, political party involvement is needed
“There was sharing of the reform and delimitation of areas with differences of views and commitment to work with the group leaders to have absolute priority in parliament in the election of the new CSM”. Thus Prime Minister Mario Draghi at a press conference after the Council of Ministers, which highlighted the need for full involvement of political forces. Hence the decision not to ask the question of trust. “It is a measure of such significance that this opening is needed” concluded Draghi, adding that there was a commitment “of all ministers to support this reform with their own parties”.
Draft reform: those elected in politics will no longer be a judge
For the elected magistrates there is no compromise on going back. The draft of the reform of the CSM and of the judicial system on the table of the Council of Ministers provides in fact that “magistrates who have held elective positions of any type or governmental positions (from national and European parliamentarians, councilors and president of regional councils, to municipal councilor and mayor) at the end of their mandate, they can no longer return to carry out any judicial function “
Ordinary magistrates are placed out of office at the Ministry to which they belong. The administrative and accounting magistrates “at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, or are destined to carry out activities that are not directly judicial, judging or prosecuting”.
Draft reform: never again political office without stopping toga
Not only. The draft of the reform introduces a ban on exercising the functions of judge or prosecutor while holding elective and governmental positions, even if in a different territory. This prohibition applies to both national and local elected offices and to government positions at all levels. The rule had been announced by Minister Cartabia in recent months when a debate was opened on the case of Catello Maresca, a municipal councilor in Naples and at the same time a judge in Campobasso.