Togas in politics, Cartabia with majority parties: “Enough double tasks”

No more double jobs for robes in politics. Introduce for magistrates the impossibility of simultaneously exercising judicial functions and holding elective and political positions, unlike what happens today. The ban should apply to both mayors and administrators (both from small towns and large cities), and for parliamentarians. It is one of the points on which the minister of justice, Marta Cartabia, reasoned with the majority parties, which they met this morning to discuss the reform of the CSM and the judiciary. Territorial limits are imposed on the candidacy of magistrates: the ban on running as candidates in the college, which includes all or part of the judicial office in which the magistrates have served in the last three years. On the table of meetings with the parties, also the proposals for reform of the system for the election of robots to the High Council of the Judiciary A majority system with binominal colleges and with the introduction of corrective measures to represent minority groups and gender equality on candidacies. These must be at least triple compared to the places to be assigned for each college and if they do not arrive spontaneously, they are integrated by drawing lots among the magistrates who have not denied their availability. And the draw is triggered even if gender equality is not ensured. News also in the rules for the choice of the heads of the judicial offices, to prevent the so-called ‘package’ appointments. Publication of the documents, definition of the procedures, for the assignment of managerial positions, based on the temporal order of vacancy. A squeeze on out-of-office magistrates is also expected. Reduction of the maximum number, currently set at 200, and interventions on timing: not before 10 years of effective exercise of the judicial functions and for a maximum limit of 10 years (with some exceptions).