They called it “the end-of-year coup”. The reform of the accounting judiciary, which limits the checks, which cancels the liability for gross negligence and which limits, in the case of ascertainment of damage to the treasury, to 30 percent of the damage itself and in any case to no more than two years’ salary of the person who committed it (we wonder what happens if the person is unemployed after having committed the act) was greeted with jubilation by the majority who maintains that in this way – by limiting the checks -, it will be possible to proceed more quickly in the administrative procedures, and on the other hand, however, as a sort of punishment for the judges who have repeatedly highlighted the deficiencies of Government activities, the last time regarding the Bridge between Messina and Reggio Calabria.
“The approval of the Foti bill on the Court of Auditors is a profoundly negative signal, which once again highlights the intolerance of political power towards legality control”, reads a note from the National Magistrates Association. Who specifies: «The rights and economic resources of citizens are put at risk. Attacks on the judiciary weaken the entire community, just as the Nordio reform does.”
