A forty-year-old from Palermo leads the National Association of Magistrates for the first time. Giuseppe Tango has rekindled attempts at dialogue between the judiciary and the government, amid the controversy and controversy sparked by the referendum campaign on justice reform. For the union's new president, it was a victory that was foretold , with the vote decided immediately and with virtually unanimous support : 31 votes and no abstentions. Tango, successor to the resigning Cesare Parodi , had already received the most votes in his faction, Magistratura Indipendente (the most right-wing faction), in the last elections but was forced to cede his place to Parodi due to the balance of power between the factions.
Now that the government's proposal for career separation and a dual CSM has been rejected, the 43-year-old labor judge in Palermo is considered the best candidate to boost the judiciary's image in the eyes of civil society. According to the ANM, Tango represents a new generation of magistrates—including the so-called "millennials"—absent from the risks of anchoring themselves to the old logic of factionalism, which has come under fire—primarily from politics—following the Palamara affair. In his first speech as president and immediately after the vote, which had already been preceded by a sort of acclamation election given the applause when his name was read, Tango made his position clear: " Starting tomorrow, we will all get to work, together with other stakeholders in the jurisdiction, to propose solutions that can truly improve justice —we experience them daily—and to renew, if possible, those knots of genuine dialogue with our political counterparts."
The intention is to immediately initiate a new discussion with the government, starting with the eight points the ANM began with in its meeting a year ago at Palazzo Chigi: the need to address staffing numbers and the issue of IT applications. In this regard, Via Arenula, through Deputy Minister of Justice Francesco Paolo Sisto, had already expressed its willingness to lend a helping hand. The central executive committee will retain its vice president, Marcello De Chiara of Unicost, and its general secretary, Rocco Maruotti of Area. Cesare Parodi, who resigned as president immediately after the polls closed last Monday for family reasons, will remain on the Central Steering Committee. The message, however, is clear: the intention is to promote significant change, starting with the new leadership, represented by a young judge.
Parodi himself, in officially bidding farewell, pointed the way forward by passing the baton: "The referendum victory, which came from the citizens, is a strong but not blank check. It's not a certificate that everything is working well in the judiciary. Trust has been granted to us; we must earn it. The judiciary no longer enjoys automatic trust. Change will come, and credibility depends on the behavior we adopt as individuals and as an association. Credibility is measured by transparency and consistency. We need concrete signals and a clear distancing from opaqueness and personalism." However, it's unlikely that any agreement will be reached in the short term on a new electoral law for the race to the Superior Council of the Judiciary, which will be renewed at the end of the year: "I don't know if there's time to review it, even though there are strong calls for renewal in this regard," explains the ANM.
"I acknowledge the statements of the new President of the ANM, Giuseppe Tango, to whom I wish success in his work and a fruitful relationship with us. I am confident that, after this period of conflict, we will be able to find common ground for a more efficient and modern justice system. I also renew my cordial greetings to President and friend Cesare Parodi." This was stated by Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, commenting on the appointment of the new President of the ANM.
(Unioneonline)
