Italian citizens demand clear and
effective justice, President Sergio Mattarella told the
judiciary's self-governing body the Supreme Council of
Magistrates (CSM) at a ceremony renaming their Rome headquarters
after Vittorio Bachelet, a former Christian Democrat politician
and CSM deputy chair who was gunned down by the Red Brigades in
a Rome university in February 1980.
"Also with reference to the values recalled by the figure of
Vittorio Bachelet, the CSM is called upon to contribute to
ensuring the utmost credibility of the judiciary, with decisions
always taken with a sense of institutions," said the head of
State, who is titular head of the CSM.
"Our fellow citizens demand transparent and efficient justice.
"To the CSM the Constitution entrusts the task of giving
concreteness to the independence of jurisdiction, as an
inalienable value of our democracy".
Mattarella also said that the Italian Constitution and cohesion
"defeat those who try to tear society apart"; that the art of
high politics means "recomposing divisions; that "diversity is
not made up by the logic of exchange", and that members of the
CSM should not seek political consensus.
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