"The dispensation for mental illness has existed in our system since time immemorial, since a law of '46. If there are cases of pathological imbalance, action is taken, but the Minister of Justice already has supervisory power and has the tools to intervene in these cases. If
you then want to control something other than the psychological pathology, but the way of being, the expression of a personality you don't like, this is arbitrary."
Thus the president of the National Association of Magistrates, Giuseppe Santalucia, to SkyTg24 regarding the psycho-aptitude tests for magistrates introduced by the government, which in his opinion "are of no use, in fact it is only propaganda".
"There are many categories that don't take the test. We are not the only judiciary in the country, but we are the only judiciary that has all this attention from the government, the others don't have it", underlined Santalucia, reporting that furthermore "there is a worrying superficiality of approach" regarding the issue.
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"No one has ever talked about government interference in the judiciary, if anything there has been interference with Parliament. Furthermore, as far as I know, there has been no confrontation between the government and the CSM. We don't know what this test is for and what it is, because the psychoaptitude test is that test that aims to discover whether that particular subject has some cognitive abilities. In our field there are written tests that reveal both the ownership of language and the capacity for legal reasoning. Or is it something else, they are personality tests? If so it worries me, because who decides which personality is best suited to being a judge? The CSM, which has no expertise on this?"
, concluded the president of the ANM.
The steering committee will decide on the strike
"It is a law that will come into force from 2026, we have plenty of time to convince people that this law is useless, we will decide in the central steering committee".
Thus the president of the ANM Santalucia responded to SkyTg24 regarding the hypothesis of a strike by the category against the psycho-aptitude tests for access to the judiciary introduced by the government.
Santalucia also explained: "It is a law that will come into force from 2026, we have plenty of time to convince that
this law is useless like this."
Gratteri: 'Test?
Even for those with government responsibilities'
"Psycho-aptitude tests? If we want to do them, they should be done for all the top sectors of the public administration, for those with government responsibilities and for those who deal with the management of public affairs". This was stated by the prosecutor of Naples,
Nicola Gratteri , on the sidelines of a press conference.
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