FdI Dossier: "Politicized judges won't stop us". Meloni prepares the referendum on careers

What ministers should not say, says, or rather writes, the report of Fratelli d'Italia on the controversy that has been raging for days after the thrusts from the Massimario office of the Cassation. The Senate study center of Meloni's party, a laboratory and think tank managed and directed by undersecretary Giovanbattista Fazzolari, goes hard. The document - "for internal study, not suitable for distribution" - with a series of specific criticisms that go beyond the merits seems to open the referendum campaign of September 2026. When Italians will be called to confirm the reform of Minister Carlo Nordio on the separation of the careers of magistrates. The prime minister is convinced she will win this challenge. In her mind it will also serve as a long run-up to the policies of the following year, those of 2027. The Massimario office for Palazzo Chigi is “a study center”. According to the Fratelli d'Italia dossier, seen by Il Foglio, “it has no jurisdictional role”. Or rather: “To maintain that the content of any report from the Massimario office is a pronouncement of the Cassation, that is, a sentence of the Cassation, is radically wrong”. As is known, in recent days the office in question has been very critical of two government measures, staunchly defended by the executive and fought by the opposition: the Security decree and the initiatives on the migrant center in Albania. Both have fueled the government's narrative for months. Here, the criticisms did not go down well with Meloni's party. Which, as also reported by this newspaper, would have preferred for political logic that the majority parties should expose themselves, but not the ministers, to avoid breaking the balance with the Quirinale. Therefore, "those of the Massimario are technical reports that can be perfectly disregarded in the trial according to the interpretation that the individual judge can give to the case called to decide". According to the document, which also contains an extensive press review, "the reports, in fact, betray an ideological approach that has little to do with the technical and legal considerations delegated to the office of the Massimario".

It is added, in the bible intended for FdI parliamentarians ready to be read and repeated on the news and in talk shows, "that even the disclosure of the reports in question leaves room for perplexity, one legitimately wonders why only today and only on such polarizing issues, has wide diffusion been given to contents that have always remained the prerogative of insiders only". In this case the answer is simple: because all the reports, once drafted by the office that has ended up in the crosshairs, are published on the website of the Court of Cassation. But these are details, perhaps. We read further in the information: "As is known, the Constitution reserves the jurisdictional function to magistrates, that is, that of deciding cases and trials, and establishes that they are subject only to the law. In any case, it is reiterated that with the aforementioned reports we are not faced with a pronouncement of the Supreme Court and even less with a sentence of the Constitutional Court, the last irreplaceable jurisdictional body called upon to decide on the constitutionality or otherwise of a rule". At the end of the dossier there is the sense of a battle that is starting to swell while waiting for the last yes of the Italians to arrive in the referendum appointment: "The work that this government is carrying out in the interest of the Italians will not stop in front of the positions of individual judges, evidently animated by political intentions". All this is happening while the Nordio reform is in the Senate for the second yes, after the one obtained in the Chamber. In the mind of the prime minister, the separation of careers will have to be approved in second reading in a very rapid manner. Unlike the premiership, for which the referendum will see the light, barring surprises, in the next legislature. This is why the pronouncement of the Massimario must be ridden within Fratelli d'Italia to warn everyone about the politicization of "certain magistrates". Arguments that will come in handy when the Italians go to the polls. And Meloni cannot be wrong: yes or no, in or out.

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