Separation of careers in the Chamber, it's a head-on confrontation

Another standoff in the Senate over the constitutional reform that introduces the separation of magistrates' careers: a lack of communication that is theatrically manifested by the multiple interventions of the opposition parties to which the majority responds with silence, given that even today there has been no intervention by the majority senators.

The Senate is therefore firmly intent on rejecting all the amendments, although the Senate Research Office has requested some "refinements" in the writing of the rules, and a more substantial change, which several jurists had also requested during the hearings. The chamber of Palazzo Madama has today concluded the vote on the 35 amendments to the first article, which needed a smaller number of votes to pass thanks to the so-called "kangaroo", a mechanism that allows multiple proposed amendments to be grouped together in a single vote. A mechanism criticized by the opposition but which the majority does not intend to give up, given that the total amendments are over a thousand. The opposition, with Alessandra Maiorino (M5s), Alfredo Bazoli and Andrea Giorgis (Pd) have contested the government's intent to hit magistrates with this reform and not improve the justice service to citizens. In any case, both the government and the rapporteur Alberto Balboni (Fdi) confirmed their negative opinion on all the amendments, including those that incorporate some requests made by the Senate Research Office. The latter, in a dossier accompanying the text, underlined the need for some small adjustments, more drafting interventions to make the reform compatible with other provisions of the Constitution. Another request, urged in the past by other jurists and constitutionalists, is more substantial. In fact, the text introduces a High Court that judges magistrates on a disciplinary level and whose decisions can only be appealed before the same Court. The Senate Research Office recalls the conflict with Article 111 of the Constitution which "provides that against sentences and against provisions on personal freedom, pronounced by ordinary or special jurisdictional bodies, an appeal to the Court of Cassation is always permitted for violation of the law". The majority and the government must now evaluate whether to accept the request for amendment, which however would return the bill to the Chamber for confirmation of the text.