Italy to nix magistrates' jumping from justice to politics
ABC News
Premier Mario Draghi’s government has approved a key reform to Italy’s much-criticized justice system, making it impossible for magistrates to jump directly from judicial careers to politics and back again
ROME -- Premier Mario Draghi’s government on Friday approved a key reform to Italy’s much-criticized justice system, making it impossible for magistrates to jump directly from judicial careers to politics and back again.
Reforms for the country’s justice system are among requirements imposed by the European Union for Italy to receive billions of euros in pandemic recovery funds.
Among those over the last few decades who have pushed for reform of rules for magistrates has been Silvio Berlusconi, the former center-right premier who contended that left-leaning prosecutors had targeted him and his media empire to damage him politically.
At a Cabinet meeting on Friday, the government decided various measures to limit magistrates’ switching back and forth between their justice roles and politics, both on national and local levels.
