The ANM: 'The separation of careers immediately in the Chamber is a forced move'

The constitutional bill to separate the careers of magistrates will be examined by the Senate Chamber on June 11th. Regardless of whether the process in the Commission has been concluded or not. The Conference of Group Leaders had established it and now the Assembly of Palazzo Madama has confirmed it, by majority vote. Amid protests from the opposition and criticism from the ANM which speaks of "forcing" and "compression of the parliamentary debate". The centre-right is building a wall and defending the choice, while the Keeper of the Seals, Carlo Nordio, states that the opposition "has already had all the time available" and "listened to all possible people". And that the reform, having "already been approved months ago" in the Chamber, should have had an "adequate discussion" in the Senate, without this "bordering on obstructionism or waste of time". So we move forward, insists the Deputy Minister of Justice, Francesco Paolo Sisto, "with seriousness and tenacity" towards "the full implementation of the principles and constitutional guarantees of due process". The opposition attacks, raises its voice and in the hemicycle also 'arms itself', as the M5S senators do, with signs that read "Silenced Democracy". However, the decision is made and the proposal of the PD group leader Andrea Giorgis, to remove the fixed date from the calendar for the reform, is rejected by a majority. And this is a vote that, according to the center-right, "also ruins" the "mediation effort" attempted by the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, during the Group Leaders' Meeting. In fact, La Russa had proposed to bring the bill on the end of life, loudly requested by the center-left and stuck in the Commission for months, to the Chamber on a certain date. The first on June 11 and the second the following week, from June 17.

So as to "balance" the two positions. But he had warned that, in the event of refusal by one of the parties, there would also be a vote on the end of life. Which happens on the input of the president of the FI senators Maurizio Gasparri who even manages to postpone by a month the arrival in the Chamber of the text that has as first signature that of Alfredo Bazoli (Pd). From June 17th it goes to July 15th.

The "Gasparri move" is branded by the Democratic Party group leader Francesco Boccia as "an unacceptable parliamentary trade". But that's it. This one also passes in the Chamber. And not even the assurance of the rapporteur Pierantonio Zanettin (FI) to bring "a unified text on the end of life" to the restricted Committee next week manages to lower the tone. In addition to Boccia, who recalls how "it is the first time in the history of the Republic that a constitutional bill does not conclude its examination in the Commission before arriving in the Chamber", there are also the other oppositions, such as Avs and IV, who define "the imposition" of the majority as the "demonstration of the authoritarian drift of the right" and of what consideration "the Government has for Parliament". But it is above all the ANM that contests the acceleration, saying it is "concerned" about "a forcing that compresses the debate and discussion" of a reform that risks "changing the face of the Constitution forever" and putting "citizens' rights at risk".