Nordio: much has been covered up in the Palamara case

"But do we really believe that the Palamara case should be reduced to the more or less forced resignation of four colleagues, who were discharged from the Csm, and that of Palamara, who was even disbarred, or do we not want to think that there was much, much more behind it that was covered up? We may believe in the little donkey that flies, but we cannot believe that the Palamara scandal was limited to those four poor guys who resigned'. Thus the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, at the Magistratura Indipendente conference in Milano Marittima speaking of the degeneration of currents in the judiciary.

With regard to the justice reform, Nordio clarified that "when the law is approved, if it is approved, even with the referendum, but even before, we will start thinking about the implementing laws that can mitigate the criticalities that I recognise there are in this law - every law can be perfectible - always in an atmosphere of cooperation and almost friendly convergence towards the common goal of making justice work". "I fully agree that this reform has nothing to do with the efficiency of justice," he added, but "it does not mean that it does not attempt to remedy that widespread feeling, which exists, and it is useless to deny it, that there is a current degeneration that has caused that prejudice on the part of the citizen who every time he approaches the lawyer the first question he asks is 'how does the judge think and to which current he belongs'," the minister concluded.