Referendum: The "Yes" camp in Cagliari: "Separating careers doesn't threaten the autonomy of the judiciary."

"They killed a dream for me: I've always thought of magistrates as wise and balanced, but certain statements by the National Magistrates' Association (ANM) deserve a red card. How can you argue that the reform will lead to the public prosecutor's office being subordinated to the government? It's not written anywhere. But when you point it out, they tell you it will happen with the implementing provisions. Good: the autonomy and independence of the judiciary are written into the Constitution; implementing laws that violate the Constitution would have a lifespan of one or two days."
This was one of the most applauded passages of the speech given by a member of the judiciary, Dr. Carmen Giuffrida of the Juvenile Court of Catania, at the initiative "The Reasons for the Yes to the Constitutional Reform," organized today by the Cagliari Criminal Chamber with the Guilcier Sardegna per Yes committee and the Vassalli Sardegna committee in the Pisano Hall of the Unione Sarda . In the final week of the election campaign for the referendum on March 22 and 23 , supporters of the Nordio reform took turns speaking alongside the moderator—lawyer Gavino Tedde, secretary of the Cagliari Criminal Chamber—to counter the "slogans, mystifications, offensive tones, and threats" used in support of the No vote.

And to reiterate three key points: the separation of the careers of investigating and adjudicating magistrates has been a programmatic legacy of the center-left since D'Alema's Bicameral Commission, even though the opposition now presents it as a subversive maneuver; the politicization of the Superior Council of the Judiciary is implicit in the existence of factions, which have full citizenship in the National Association of Magistrates but not in a high-level administrative body, and the lottery serves to counteract this; the reform will not weaken the independence of the judiciary, but rather strengthen it, leaving prosecutors free and judges more at peace. But above all, it will ensure that citizens perceive this freedom and autonomy.