With 328 yes, 41 no and 25 abstentions - the deputies of Italia Viva who vote against the government on the agenda - the Chamber approves the reform of the judiciary which is now being passed to the Senate.

Among the main measures, stop the revolving doors between politics and the judiciary; separations of functions; a mixed electoral system for the election of the councilors toga of the CSM which, however, will not provide for the drawing of the constituencies; new rules to avoid "package appointments" for office heads.

For the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia, the text approved at Montecitorio is "the best possible reform, well aware that everything can be perfected". It is "a first step, an important step" also for the vice-president of the CSM David Ermini who speaks of "a definitely necessary and urgent reform, not only to mark the change of pace with respect to the past, but above all to give completeness to the large reforming path of justice started in recent years ". Now the ball passes to the Senate, where the path can be undermined by Iv, in consideration of the smaller numbers that the majority can count on at Palazzo Madama compared to Montecitorio.

Here are the main innovations.

THE CSM - The electoral system will be mixed, binominal with proportional share. There are no lists. The system is based on individual applications: each candidate submits his / her application without the need for promoters. There must be a minimum of 6 candidates in each binominal college, of which at least half of the less represented gender. If spontaneous applications do not arrive or gender equality is not guaranteed, there will be a draw to reach the minimum number of candidates foreseen.

APPOINTMENTS - The rules for the assignment of executive and semi-executive positions are changing. The CSM will have to make the appointments on the basis of the chronological order of the openings. Transparency rules are introduced: deeds and curriculum vitae will be published online. In addition, the mandatory audition of no less than 3 candidates for the position to be assigned is envisaged.

STOP TO THE REVOLVING DOORS - There is a ban on simultaneously exercising jurisdictional functions and holding elective and governmental positions, both for national and local elective positions, and for national / regional and local government positions. At the end of their mandate, the magistrates who have held elective positions can no longer return to perform any judicial function: ordinary magistrates are placed out of office in a ministry or at the Council of State, the Court of Auditors and Massimario of the Court of Cassation, with functions not jurisdictional. The magistrate who has applied but has not been elected for three years will not be able to return to work in the region where he ran for an elective office. With the implementing decrees, the maximum number of out-of-office magistrates will also be reduced, which today are 200.

LIMITS TO CHANGES OF FUNCTION - Only one change of function between prosecutors and judge in the penalty will be possible within 10 years from the assignment of the first seat.

THE PERSONAL FILE - Currently, at each evaluation of professionalism (every 4 years), the magistrate must send to the Judicial Council - and then to the CSM - sample measures on the activity carried out by him and statistics relating to his own activities and compared to those of the office of belonging. With the reform, the annual implementation (no longer every 4 years) of this measure is expected. The file contains data, not assessments of merit: the rationale, it is explained, is that of an overall photograph of the work done by the magistrate, not an opinion on the individual measures.

(Unioneonline / D)

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