The government is accelerating on its planned reform to introduce separate career paths for prosecutors and judges so they can longer move between the roles, sources said after a meeting between Premier Giorgia Meloni and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio at the premier's office at Palazzo Chigi on Wednesday.
Nordio will finalize a draft of the reform bill for approval by the cabinet by early April, the sources added.
The minister has said the controversial planned separation of career paths is a non-negotiable part of a broad justice reform package that also includes the planned reorganization of the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM), the judiciary's self-governing body.
The Italian magistrates union, ANM, has said the move is the thin end of the wedge towards bringing the judiciary undergovernment control, a claim former prosecutor Nordio vehemently denies.
The planned reforms would require a constitutional amendmentlaw.
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