Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso said
Monday that Italian magistrates should refrain from making
forays into the political arena.
His comments echoed those of Giovanni Legnini, the head of
the judiciary's self-governing body CSM, who said Sunday that
magistrates should not be involved in campaigns for the October
referendum to ratify the government's Constitutional reform to
revamp Italy's political apparatus.
"The judiciary has an important role but it must leave the
political arena its place," Grasso said.
Legnini spoke amid a row over CSM member Piergiorgio
Morosini, who was quoted by Il Foglio newspaper as saying
Premier Matteo Renzi "must be stopped" in an alleged campaign
against the judiciary - Morosini denied having said this.
Grasso, a member of Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party
(PD) and Italy's former chief anti-mafia prosecutor, said his
case was different. "I made a choice to change," he said. "I
resigned from the judiciary and now I'm on politics".
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