Referendum, Meloni posts video: 'Enough hoaxes, go vote and vote yes. Judges have lost authority'

"On 22 and 23 March you will be called to vote in the referendum on whether to confirm or reject the justice reform that the government has proposed. There has been a lot of confusion, controversy, simplified slogans and sometimes partial or worse completely distorted information. That is why I have tried to explain the points of the reform and why it is important to go to the polls and vote yes, in favour of the reform. It is a reform that concerns all Italians". This was said by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who posted a video on social media with the aim of explaining "what is really in the Justice reform: 13 minutes to clarify and respond to the trivialisations and too many hoaxes put into circulation," she stressed.

In the justice system there are 'distortions that in 80 years of republican history we have never managed to correct. At every attempt the reaction has been disproportionate: the result is that the judiciary has lost much of its authority and effectiveness. The reform intervenes on this: to make justice more responsible and free from the judiciary, which has lost much of its authority and much of its effectiveness,' the premier states in the video posted on X. The objective is "a more modern and more autonomous justice system free from the conditioning of politics, it is a reform against the degeneration of a blocked system and not against magistrates," she concludes.

Apocalyptic tones are used 'by those who do not seem to have many arguments against this reform, such as the accusation of a slide towards an illiberal system. I think it is useful for Italians to have this fact: in most European countries the separation of careers already exists" but "the left is opposed to any form of modernisation of this nation," the premier continues.

"The real problem that the left has with this reform is that we free magistrates from control and conditioning, because the left has always used justice when it could not win elections and this reform breaks that mechanism but not to replace it with magistrates controlled by the right but with magistrates who are free from everyone and who will be able to make a career because they are good," Meloni argued. The thesis that the justice reform increases the 'control of the executive' over magistrates is 'science fiction, it is a lie because the reform does the exact opposite it was made to free magistrates from politics,' she adds.

"They tell you to go and vote to send the government home, it does not matter what the reform says. I advise not to fall into the trap: they use the government's shield because they do not want a reform that I consider sacrosanct. But the government will not resign if the No vote wins. We wrote that we would make a series of reforms but now it's up to the Italians to decide, we want to get to the end of the legislature and be judged by the Italians then. Today we are voting on justice and not on politics,' the Prime Minister finally added.