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Any reform that loosens the autonomy of prosecutors and fragments the governance of the judiciary makes it more difficult to attack the power of the clans.
"The 'Yes' vote in the career-sharing referendum ends up helping the mafia," writes Roberto Saviano.
In an editorial published in Repubblica, the writer argues that the problem lies not so much in the suppression of street crime, exacerbated by a "pan-penalism" that fills the law books without increasing security, but rather in the fact that the real levers of criminal power remain untouched: the illegal economy and the collaboration between organized crime and politics. These are areas in which reform would have no impact at all.
In addition to asserting that a "Yes" vote in the referendum helps the mafia, Saviano deepens his stance: "everything that weakens those who oppose it has the direct consequence of strengthening them. And this is not an ideological position, but rather the acceptance of a historical constant: mafia organizations flourish when judicial action is more fragile, more divided, more isolated, more exploited for political purposes, with the sole aim of generating distrust and weakening them as a whole. And this reform presented in the referendum, beyond the rhetoric of "modernization", goes precisely in that direction".
The very idea of a judiciary with separate careers for judges and public prosecutors is under scrutiny. This choice, according to Saviano, would make the judiciary weaker and more permeable.
A "separated" judiciary, in short, would also be a judiciary more exposed to pressure. The argument continues on the theme of institutional balance.
Anti-mafia investigations, the writer argues, only work if they are based on strong and truly independent structures. When these safeguards fail, investigations stall and the space left open is occupied by shady relationships and conflicting interests.
Hence the most direct attack: "separating the public prosecutor means making him more isolated, more exposed, more governable. It means changing the balance of the CSM and increasing the judiciary's susceptibility to the influence of the executive through careers, appointments and discipline. Separating careers does not take power away from the state: it centralizes it."
And whenever power is concentrated in the executive, democratic checks and balances risk being seriously weakened. To the delight of the mafia."
Another interpretation that turns the referendum into a political and symbolic clash.
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