Leaked Email Shows Italian Magistrates Seeking to Undermine Meloni on Migration

A leaked email has shown that Italian leftists within the judicial branch are seeking to derail Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s immigration policies amid the standoff over removing illegals {snip}

On Sunday, the Rome-based newspaper Il Tempo published an email from Marco Patarnello, the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, to members of the Democratic Magistracy, a left-wing faction within the National Association of Magistrates.

In his message to fellow magistrates, Patarnello warned that Meloni’s political power in Italy must be challenged by the judiciary, such as the decision to send illegals back to Italy from detention centres in Albania.

The prosecutor argued that Meloni is a difficult opponent because, unlike her predecessors, such as former PM Silvio Berlusconi, she has no criminal investigations against her and is consequently more difficult to exert pressure on.

“Undoubtedly, the attack on the judiciary has never been so strong, perhaps not even in Berlusconi’s time. In any case, today, it is a much more dangerous and insidious attack for many reasons. First of all, because Meloni has no judicial investigations against her and therefore, she does not move for personal interests but for political visions, and this makes her much stronger,” the email said.

Patarnello claimed that Meloni’s government is also more cohesive than those in the past, and thus, “the political force it can express is enormous and can really question a constitutional structure by overturning key principles that we considered intangible.”

The deputy Supreme Court prosecutor said magistrates should unite to solidify their power base and confront the supposed power imbalance, declaring that “we absolutely must remedy this.”

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