Referendum, Meliadò: “If the judges-society pact is broken, credibility is lost”

Rome, Jan. 31 (LaPresse) – “If this pact between the judiciary and society is broken, if the interpretative direction of the law is confused with the political direction of the government, a crack opens in the overall credibility of institutions and a short circuit is created in the ways in which popular will is exercised, which binds the judge only within the objective forms of the law and within the limits set by respect for fundamental rights and the principle of equality, which must be guaranteed to any majority. Reducing this complex of questions to the formula of the ‘overreach’ of judges to the detriment of politics is frankly misleading and obscures the answer to the question that summarizes them all, namely whether there can be an effective democracy (that recognizes limits and checks) without an independent judiciary, and whether an independent judiciary can survive in the absence of a climate of institutional temperance and mutual tolerance.” This is what the president of the Rome Court of Appeal, Giuseppe Meliadò, said in his speech at the opening of the 2026 judicial year currently taking place in the Europa courtroom.