Nordio gives green light to psychological aptitude tests for judges. The ANM: “A completely unreasonable third test”

Last November the Keeper of the Seals Carlo Nordioduring the Council of Ministers, had opposed the request of the undersecretary to the Presidency Alfredo Mantovano to provide psycho-aptitude tests for judges. Now that “no” has become a “yes”. So much so that the government will deal with it tomorrow at Palazzo Chigi. A draft of future tests is already ready. Very generic, just a few lines. It is only clear that they will be carried out after the first two tests, one written and one oral.

The ANM, the robes’ union, is already “at war”. Because “with a disorientating ease” Nordio and the government introduce the tests “without saying what they are, what they are used for, how they are structured, what the consequences of a possible negative result will be, and the professional figures who will carry them out and evaluate them” . A complete failure because “in a completely unreasonable way” “a third test” is actually introduced, after the written and oral ones. Even those who have “brilliantly” passed the first two tests will have to undergo them. Therefore with a clear lengthening of times. And without even knowing what the consequences will be. Because even having passed the written and oral exams may have no value if the tests then go badly.

He hadn’t succeeded Berlusconi in 2008, when the tests were already causing a scandal given that he had hypothesized them for the first time Liccio Gelli in his Democratic Rebirth Plan. Now the government can do it Melons. And Nordio gives in to the Lega-Forza Italia axis which insists on the project. She was the president of the Senate Justice Committee Giulia Bongiorno to relaunch the tests by claiming that she herself had proposed and introduced them as Minister of Public Administration in the yellow-green government. The support of the Forza Italia group leader is full Pierantonio Zanettin. There is no trace left of a “no” coming from the undersecretaries of Justice who participate in the sessions. The tests have passed.

And now they are included in the decrees implementing the reform Cartabia on the judicial system which after the examination of the two Justice commissions of the House and Senate will see the green light. Despite the harsh controversies of Enrico Costa of Action against the number of magistrates out of office which is certainly not decreasing, but rather increasing. A double blow for the robes because the so-called “magistrate’s file” also passes, a sort of book of his professional life, which also includes the outcome of the trials, albeit randomly.

As for tests, for now the government’s indications are very vague. There is talk of “qualified experts for the verification of psycho-attitudinal suitability for the performance of judicial functions” who will be appointed “with a decree of the minister, following a resolution of the Superior Council of the Judiciary”. Also “the guidelines and procedures for carrying out the checks are determined by the CSM in agreement with the minister”. It is also specified that “the verification takes place after the completion of the oral tests”.

The reaction of the ANM is immediately joined by that of Giovanni “Ciccio” Zaccaro, Area secretary, the left-wing current of the judiciary: “The government proposes psycho-aptitude tests for magistrates, without clarifying what they will have to evaluate and who will have to administer them. It seems to me to be a proposal that aims to delegitimize state power and hide the real problems of justice.” Which, according to Zaccaro, are if anything those of the “single court for families and individuals” which does not work and of the electronic criminal trial, the magistrate should do everything alone with an App, which however does not work.

In view of the European elections, the parties that form the government are also “playing” on justice. Nordio has just announced that the separation of careers is ready, and it is the project dear to Forza Italia. Now the tests are arriving at Palazzo Chigi that the League wants. It is not yet clear what role the Brothers of Italy play in justice, but perhaps their goal is only to obtain the premiership.