Career separation, Meloni: ‘Aims to ensure true equality between prosecution and defence’

Rome, 5 Mar. (LaPresse) – ‘The constitutional reform on justice aims to achieve a systemic objective that the system has not achieved so far. Article 111 of the Constitution tells us that ‘due process’ is that which ‘takes place in the adversarial process between the parties, on equal terms, before a third and impartial judge’. Due process takes place, adversarially, before a judge who must not only be third, but who must also appear third. This is exactly what we intend to do with this reform, which provides for the separation of the prosecutor and the judge and aims to ensure true procedural equality between the prosecution and the defence'. This is what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said at the meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the leaders of the Union of Criminal Chambers to discuss the reform that envisages the separation of careers between judges and prosecutors and the establishment of a double Csm and a High Disciplinary Court.