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Journalist Alba Kepi described the referendum on justice reform in Italy as the first development that produced direct political costs for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Kepi focused on the clashes that accompanied the proposals for changes to the justice system. According to her, the reform package encountered strong resistance from experts and well-known names in this system.
She emphasized on the "Task Force" show that the disagreements did not remain only on the technical or institutional level, but were also reflected in the final result. In this reading, the referendum is not only a debate on justice, but also a political test for the governing majority.
According to Kepi, the most obvious consequence of this process is the political loss for Meloni and the Italian right wing, which had also linked its political weight to this initiative.
This result puts the Italian government in front of a clear political signal on one of the most sensitive issues on its agenda.
Alba Kepi: It would reform the justice system, the division of careers between the magistrates and the prosecutors, and would allow the introduction of some new rules that had to do with exactly what Giorgia Meloni commented on as the independence of the judiciary. But there has been extraordinary opposition throughout this time from the Italian anti-mafia, from the most well-known Italian anti-mafia prosecutors, from experts in justice reforms and everything else that this system encompasses, commenting that this type of proposed reform, this type of proposed change to the Italian Constitution, would do nothing but bring the justice system under political control, since the Supreme Council of Magistracy would be reformed, which was proposed to have a vote by lot to elect the magistrates who would be part of this CSM, that is, the Supreme Superior Council of Magistracy.
While those who supported the no vote were of the fact that the selection of names in this high council cannot be done by a lottery, but must be done through a vote within the magistrates, since according to those who supported the no vote, the primary principle of democracy is affected. Also, another proposal that those who voted yes did not understand well enough was the fact that within this Supreme Council, which has over 33 members, 1/3 of them are secular members, who will be elected by parliament. But if Giorgia Meloni, if the Italian right wanted the selection of other members by lottery, that is, magistrates and prosecutors, on the side of secular members, she proposed a limited election by lottery. So a list drawn up by politics and within this list a lottery would be held.
And I think that these were the two main points that made the Italian vote say NO to this reform. And what is most understandable today is that even within the Italian right-wing forces, within Forza Italia, within Fratelli d'Italia, there is a significant percentage of people who voted against the wishes, the will of their leader. For example, within the Forza Italia party, over 17.9% of the voters of this political force have expressed their vote no against the constitutional reform, the reform of the justice system. And also within the Fratelli d'Italia party, there are 11.2% of the voters of this political force who have voted against the wishes of the leader, the leader of Giorgia Meloni, who was demanding a vote in favor. One important thing to say is that after 2022, that is, after September 2022, when Giorgia Meloni came to power, came to the Italian government, this is the first political defeat that she has suffered. Over the years, we have seen local votes, we have seen regional votes, but the political force of Fratelli d'Italia and the Italian right has always been quite strong. So strong that no one expected this referendum to be a defeat for the government.
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