Overview
- The CSM’s IV Commission has approved a proposal to give Iolanda Apostolico a positive professional review at the VII, or highest, career level.
- The full council is expected to confirm the move in an upcoming session, which would apply the top rating retroactively to 2023.
- The step would not return her to the bench because she resigned in December 2024, yet it would raise her final pay base and benefits through retroactive effects.
- The case centers on her 2023 orders in Pozzallo that refused some migrant detentions and disapplied the Decreto Cutro as conflicting with European law, a reading CSM reviewers consider correct.
- A 2018 video of her at a pro-migrant protest fueled center-right claims of bias, and coverage notes one abstention in the commission from Lega-aligned councillor Claudia Eccher.