The ANM: “Make a measure you don’t like and you become ‘red’. For Salvini, magistrates are enemies.” The League: “Yet another rally”

“The politics and media that surround the current government majority deprive the work of magistrates of serenity. Nothing can be done if you are labeled ex post as politicized magistrates: make a measure that you don’t like and you become ‘red’. This It’s unacceptable.” He says it Giuseppe Santaluciamagistrate and president of the Anm, guest of La7’s Tagadà programme.

“This is not about the attack on the attack on the individual magistrate: through the attack on the individual – he explains – today he is the president of the court of Bologna, yesterday the judge of the court of Rome, yesterday she was the judge of Catania… Here there is an attack on the judicial function and the protection of this is the institutional task of the CSM”.

According to Santalucia, the Superior Council of the Judiciary “should speak up and try to represent the reasons that are the basis of a completely legitimate way of exercising jurisdiction”.

That of the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini – continues Santalucia – “is a way to represent the judiciary in the eyes of public opinion as a biased body, whether red, black or blue, the flag doesn’t matter, but it is telling citizens that magistrates are not magistrates. The other serious thing is to represent the magistrate as biased and anti-Italian. To point out the magistrates as biased and enemies and then to say that the magistrates dismantle the work that the government does at night: we are not called to complete the work of the government. Either we accept this or we will never understand each other, because the magistrate is not there to cooperate with the government, certainly not to go against the government, but to enforce the rights and guarantees of the people I must submit to this principle which is the foundation of our democratic Republic.”

“Yet another television rally by the president of the ANM, on one of the reference networks of the left. We renew the hope that the magistrates will also carve out time to work”. So one note from the League.

Another alarm comes from the magistrates’ association. “The continuous media attacks on judges who make decisions that are unpleasant to those in power force us to speak out again to denounce the wounds that this overused sad script causes first and foremost to the institutions of the country. The autonomy and independence of the judicial order is not accepted , judges cannot be tolerated to express themselves without supporting the will and programs of the government and its majority”. Thus the central executive council of the ANM met today, adding that “the air is heavy”.