Overview
- At ceremonies opening the judicial year in multiple appellate districts, senior magistrates warned the government’s overhaul fails to fix staff and technology shortfalls and called it punitive.
- In Milan, Court of Appeal President Giuseppe Ondei said the plan would not improve case times, and Prosecutor General Francesca Nanni deemed it “substantially useless” and “punitiva.”
- Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, speaking in Milan, insisted the reform has no political aim, repeated that it does not threaten judicial independence, and pledged to abide by the referendum’s outcome.
- The clash follows Friday’s Cassation event where First President Pasquale D’Ascola defended autonomy as a constitutional cornerstone and Prosecutor General Pietro Gaeta called the judges–politics confrontation “unacceptable.”
- An unverified TV allegation of spyware on magistrates’ computers was dismissed by Nordio as “repugnant insinuations,” and attention now turns to the 22–23 March constitutional referendum on the reform.