President Sergio Mattarella told
young magistrates at the presidential palace Monday that "you
must never lose a sense of your own limits, above all
institutional". He told them to "beware the subtle conditioning
of the perception of the importance of one's role," adding "I
say that above all to myself". In his position as president,
Mattarella is titular head of the judiciary's self-governing
body, the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM). Mattarella told
the apprentice magistrates that they should "only be conditioned
by the law". Recalling his past as a Constitutional Court
justice, Mattarella stressed the fundamental importance of
"dialectic" among various views. He also said magistrates should
be aware of their responsibilities towards the community, and
urged prosecutors and judges to avoid an "arbitrary" protection
of their autonomy. He said that without justice, however, there
could be neither "dignity not democracy".
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