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Napolitano tells CSM to get down to work

President expresses 'great pleasure' at Legnini's election

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(see related) (ANSA) - Rome, September 30 - President Giorgio Napolitano on Tuesday told the Italian judiciary's self governing body, the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM), to make up for lost time after long delays in the election of its new makeup in parliament. "Straight down to work," Napolitano told the CSM. "The time it took to elect the new members of the CSM must be recovered quickly". He also expressed "great pleasure" at the election of Giovanni Legnini as the CSM's vice president. The vice president is effectively the chief of the CSM as the president is a figurehead role that goes to the Italian head of State, currently Napolitano himself.
   

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