Rome, 16 May (LaPresse) – “The time has come – and this is it – when we must all say ‘enough’”, “let us embark on a process of serious renewal to eradicate once and for all the poisonous fruits of factional degeneration”. So said ANM President Giuseppe Tango, speaking at the opening of the Association’s extraordinary general assembly, held today in Rome in the Great Hall of the Court of Cassation. “Let us prove ourselves worthy of the gift that our Founding Fathers and Mothers have bestowed upon us, the gift of autonomous government,” stated the magistrate. ‘Many colleagues are asking us for this, especially the younger ones, the very same people who have gone to great lengths for this campaign,’ he continued, referring to the March referendum. “The ANM must do everything in its power to ensure that factionalism is countered at every level. Faced with this phenomenon, it cannot remain silent, it cannot downplay it; it has only a duty to oppose it,” he continues. “And certainly among the challenges that lie ahead is that of greater transparency and predictability in the decisions adopted by the CSM. This is also for the protection of its own councillors. But we would be making a fatal mistake if we thought this concerned only the dynamics of this body. “Every time, in an assessment of a senior official, or in a meeting of the Judicial Council – in short, in any institutional setting – one colleague is preferred over another not on grounds of merit but of affiliation, the entire judiciary loses credibility both internally and externally.” ‘We must choose what kind of judiciary we want to be and what image of the judiciary we want to project,’ he emphasises. ‘Let us not squander this opportune moment: if we can walk, let us not stand still; if we can run, let us not walk; if we can fly, let us not run.’
Justice, Tango (ANM): ‘It is time to put an end to factional strife’
Rome, 16 May (LaPresse) – “The time has come – and this is it – when we must all say ‘enough’”, “let us embark on a process of serious renewal to eradicate once and for all the poisonous fruits of factional degeneration”. So said ANM President Giuseppe Tango, speaking at the opening of the Association’s extraordinary general assembly, held today in Rome in the Great Hall of the Court of Cassation. “Let us prove ourselves worthy of the gift that our Founding Fathers and Mothers have bestowed upon us, the gift of autonomous government,” stated the magistrate. ‘Many colleagues are asking us for this, especially the younger ones, the very same people who have gone to great lengths for this campaign,’ he continued, referring to the March referendum. “The ANM must do everything in its power to ensure that factionalism is countered at every level. Faced with this phenomenon, it cannot remain silent, it cannot downplay it; it has only a duty to oppose it,” he continues. “And certainly among the challenges that lie ahead is that of greater transparency and predictability in the decisions adopted by the CSM. This is also for the protection of its own councillors. But we would be making a fatal mistake if we thought this concerned only the dynamics of this body. “Every time, in an assessment of a senior official, or in a meeting of the Judicial Council – in short, in any institutional setting – one colleague is preferred over another not on grounds of merit but of affiliation, the entire judiciary loses credibility both internally and externally.” ‘We must choose what kind of judiciary we want to be and what image of the judiciary we want to project,’ he emphasises. ‘Let us not squander this opportune moment: if we can walk, let us not stand still; if we can run, let us not walk; if we can fly, let us not run.’
