The test for magistrates from 2026, the SCC will appoint the professors

A significant change, therefore, compared to the draft circulated until a few hours earlier, which provided instead for the Minister of Justice to appoint expert commissions and evaluate the test procedures, in agreement with the Superior Council of the Judiciary.

In the legislative decree that will enter into force there will instead be a double level of guarantee: the Csm will regulate the tests in a general way and then the examining board will decide.

The entrance exam can still be repeated four times. But the Amn does not give way one step in front of the soft line and with president Giuseppe Santalucia points the finger: "More than a disaster, it is a symbolic rule, the purpose was to create a suggestion in public opinion that magistrates need a psychic check".

And he postpones a possible mobilisation on the issue: 'On the strike we will talk again, we are all united. It is an irrational rule, it will come into force in 2026, there is room to convince to remove it'.

The Guardasigilli, however, brands these reactions as 'sterile polemics, empty abstractions', also emphasising the favourable opinion of the Justice Commissions to the request to evaluate the tests: 'When both chambers send you certain observations, it is almost the government's duty to comply. There is no encroachment or interference by the executive against the judiciary. There is no vulnus, no lesa majesty'.

The minister cites as an example the psycho-aptitude tests already provided for those who work in the law enforcement, such as those for carabinieri, which last three days: 'the psycho-aptitude test is provided for all the most important functions in the country: doctors, airline pilots, law enforcement. The public prosecutor is the head of the judicial police and the pg is subject to psycho-aptitude tests. So if we do it to those who obey a commander, why would it not be possible to do it to those who lead the judicial police?".

Then he reveals: 'I submitted myself to the Minnesota psychological tests, which is what we would like to introduce here. After all, there is nothing wrong with a person trying to understand what he or she is like, and perhaps people who are in charge of other people's lives, such as doctors, can try to correct themselves'. A final passage on the 'cuts' in the placement of magistrates outside, another of the approved measures: "There was a lot of pressure to reduce this number: we brought it down to 180. The rule, however, will enter into force in 2026 because at the moment it would not be possible to deplete certain bodies of magistrates who are essential".