Referendum: the Consulta is examining questions on justice

The Constitutional Court began today the examination of the referendums, starting from the six questions concerning justice.

The cannabis referendum will therefore be the last to be examined by the Constitutional Court, barring changes in the course of action.

The first question on justice concerns the Severino law.

The aim of the promoters is the abolition of one of its implementing decrees, the entire Consolidated Law on the provisions on the matter of non-compliance.

It is therefore not just a question of the rules contested by the local administrators, which provide for the suspension for those of them who have been sentenced at first instance for a series of crimes.

But also the provisions that prevent participation in electoral competitions for the European and Italian Parliament and in regional, provincial and municipal elections of those who have been definitively convicted of mafia, terrorism, corruption and other serious crimes.

The second concerns the rules governing the application of precautionary measures.

The objective is to reduce the scope of offenses for which the application of precautionary measures and in particular preventive detention is allowed: via illicit financing to parties and via offenses punished with imprisonment of no less than five years, unless there is a danger of the suspect escaping or of contaminating evidence.

The remainder concern issues that are intertwined with the reform of the CSM and of the judiciary just approved by the Council of Ministers: starting from the question that wants to obtain the separation of careers in the judiciary by canceling the rules that today allow four passages of functions between judges and pm and that the reform wants to reduce to two.

With two other questions we want to allow the vote of lawyers in the judicial councils on the "report cards" for magistrates (measure provided for in the reform, but only when the Council of the Bar has reported misconduct of the magistrate) and eliminate the 25 signatures requested in order to present a candidacy in the elections of the toga councilors of the CSM (the reform already does so, which has also eliminated the competing lists).

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In the meantime, the High Court yesterday declared the question posed inadmissible because "the minimum constitutionally necessary protection of human life would not be preserved".

Disappointment of the Coscioni Association.

"We will continue with other tools", says Marco Cappato who adds: "Judge Amato is a very political personality and this is a political decision".