Overview
- A Pulp Podcast episode airing Thursday features Giorgia Meloni urging a merits-based vote on the reform, reiterating she will not resign if No prevails, and stating she wants a three‑fifths threshold and a cross‑party list for CSM lay members, plus a cooling‑off ban on recent politicians joining the CSM if Yes wins.
- In a SkyTG24 face‑off, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said he hopes turnout reaches 50–60% and argued the package boosts citizen safeguards, keeps two new CSM bodies independent and uses sortition to cut factionalism, while constitutional scholar Enrico Grosso warned the plan undermines real independence, upends an elective CSM tradition and makes the sortition asymmetrical.
- At a No event in Naples, prosecutor Nicola Gratteri called the reform a ‘blindata’ rewrite pushed through Parliament and said separating careers would damage judicial culture, as former ANAC chief Raffaele Cantone questioned the rationale of a new Alta Corte Disciplinare and ex Naples PG Luigi Riello criticized drawing magistrates by lot.
- Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein rallied in Naples for a No vote, arguing the plan splits and sortitions the CSM without improving trials or resources and weakens judicial autonomy, with the PD announcing further national events before the vote.
- Political endorsements remain mixed, with Mario Monti backing No, Lamberto Dini for Yes and Mario Draghi keeping silent, while former M5S floor leader Francesco D’Uva said he will vote Yes and recalled the Five Star Movement previously promoted sortition for CSM selections.