Justice, autonomy and premierate: the political knots for the majority at the resumption after the holidays

'The wish I make to all of us and to the national community for 2025 is to put only what is really useful in the backpack to go faster and to be able to see what is really essential'. Thus Giorgia Meloni in Rome, at the inauguration of Piazza Pia for the Jubilee Salvini was there, at the premier's side. That invitation to go fast was a way of reiterating that for now there is no time or need to change boxes in the government. It was a new stop to the hypothesis sketched out by the secretary of the League who, in the hours following his acquittal for the Open Arms case, made it clear that he might consider returning to be minister at the Viminale.

On her return from Lapland, Meloni has started to 'put in her backpack' what she considers useful. By 2025 she will have to deal with reforms. Starting with the separation of the careers of magistrates, which by the way is the first measure on the agenda in the Chamber when work resumes on 8 January. Calling for its immediate approval are Justice Minister Cardio Nordio, Forza Italia, and Salvini himself.

After all, differentiated autonomy has suffered a brusque slowdown at the hands of the Constitutional Court: whether or not there will be an abrogative referendum on the Calderoli law in June - and on this the final judgement on admissibility is expected by mid-January, again by the constitutional judges - very little remains of the Calderoli law after sentence 192 of 14 November. With the consequence that the differentiation process will in any case be reduced in scope and slowed down in time.

Instead, the Nordio reform on the separation of careers is expected in the Chamber of Deputies immediately after the Christmas break. And it is a reform that enjoys a better wind than both the differentiated autonomy, renamed 'split Italy' by the opposition, and the premierate dear to Giorgia Meloni, which in turn has been blocked in Montecitorio after the first controversial yes of the Senate last June. If in fact the hostility of the "toghets" remains, with the niet of the National Association of Magistrates, years and years of investigations on politics that have ended up in thin air have also sensitised part of the opposition: in favour are Carlo Calenda's Azione and Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva, which in turn has just emerged unscathed from the Open investigation after five years of investigations.

Full steam ahead with the justice reform, then. Of the three reforms that formed the initial pact between the three majority parties, and which should have travelled together, the Nordio reform seems to be the one on the easiest track. Of autonomy it has been said. As for the premierate, the long pause for reflection was determined both by the unresolved knots - first and foremost the law with which to elect the premier - and by the possible concomitance with the referendum on differentiated autonomy. If there is finally to be a popular vote in June, Meloni has no intention of adding more divisive meat to the fire of opposition. If, on the other hand, the referendum is soon to be stopped by the Consulta, then the 'reform of reforms' will be able to resume its path with more tranquillity.