Referendum, ministry asks Anm for names of 'no' party donors. Pd: proscription lists

According to "an act of inspective syndication" is reported by a Member of Parliament, of "a potential conflict between magistrates in service registered with the ANM and private supporters" of the Just Say No Committee "who would end up practising a form of indirect financing of the ANM". This is what the head of the Justice Ministry's cabinet, Giusi Bartolozzi, writes in a document addressed to the president of the ANM, Cesare Parodi, in which he submits to the Association's evaluations 'the advisability of making known to the community, with a view to full transparency, any funding received by the Committee from private citizens'.

"I am not in a position to answer because the Committee in question was only promoted by the ANM, but it is a subject, even a legal one, that is absolutely autonomous". Thus the president of the Anm, Cesare Parodi, in his reply to the head of the cabinet of the Ministry of Justice, Giusi Bartolozzi. Parodi explains that on the Committee's website 'everything is transparently reported, including the Statute' and 'if, however, you need more detailed information, which I do not have, I can only refer you to the Committee's representatives. I only note that your request to make public the data of private citizens is, in my opinion, contrary to the safeguarding of their privacy'.

"The news reported by some media about the request by the minister's chief of staff, Carlo Nordio, to the National Magistrates' Association to have the list of those who made donations to the committee for the No vote in the constitutional referendum is a very serious act that betrays the nervousness that one breathes in the government buildings. A signal that smacks of proscription lists and whose reasons are difficult to understand. It calls into question the freedom of participation and fuels a climate of pressure against the judiciary and the citizens who will vote No. The minister must clarify immediately. Institutions and the sovereign people respect each other. They are not intimidated'. These are the words of the Democratic deputy, national responsible for justice of the PD, Debora Serracchiani.

In view of the referendum on justice scheduled for March, the friction between the Guardasigilli, Carlo Nordio, and the Csm and the oppositions continues on a daily basis. In a number of interviews, the Minister of Justice emphasised how the draw, which the reform envisages, would have, among its merits, that of breaking "this 'paramafioso' mechanism, this currenty vermin". Words that immediately triggered an uprising of shields and some subsequent words from the Guardasigilli. "I do not understand so much discomposed indignation at my statements on the currents of the Csm," he said, "I merely quoted the statements of Nino Di Matteo, a well-known pm taken as a model by the Pd and the left, reported by the Fatto quotidiano and other newspapers, therefore sources not particularly close to us, in September 2019. Di Matteo spoke of mafia mentality and method. Other exponents of the Party of No expressed themselves, at the time, even more brutally. We will make a list of them and publish it."

"To those who, in these hours, are trying to instrumentalise my thought, I want to make it clear that, precisely because I have always opposed the degeneration of the system of self-government due to the improper interference of currents and cliques, today my hands are even freer in denouncing that this constitutional reform, instead of solving the problem, ends up aggravating it, accentuating the risk of an increasingly stringent political control over the SCM and the entire judiciary. With a serious risk for the protection of the guarantees and rights of every citizen," says magistrate Nino Di Matteo, called into question by Minister Carlo Nordio.