According to Gustavo Zagrebelsky, the Mario Roggero case would not be just a judicial matter, but a symptom of a broader “twisting” of the institutional system. The former president of the Constitutional Court accuses Minister Carlo Nordio of having fueled a “populist” climate, claiming that the right-wing is “inciting” public opinion to corner the President of the Republic on the possible granting of pardon to the convicted jeweler.
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However, this interpretation appears debatable. Nordio, in fact, merely used a tool provided by the legal system, without encroaching on the prerogatives of the Quirinale. Zagrebelsky himself acknowledges that the minister can initiate the pardon procedure, but then argues that the problem would be the “context,” speaking of a “provocation prepared in advance” and even a “political setup,” without providing concrete elements to support this reconstruction.
The former constitutional judge then links the Roggero case to the electoral reform, arguing that both events are “two sides of the same coin.” According to him, the right-wing is building a different institutional framework, progressively reducing the role of the head of state and pushing the country towards a system no longer fully parliamentary.
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Zagrebelsky also rejects the majority prize, calling it a “punishment-prize,” and goes as far as to claim that the very concept of “governability” would have an authoritarian meaning. A view that, beyond the alarms raised, seems to ignore the declared goal of the reform: to ensure greater stability for governments and reduce the chronic political fragmentation that has marked the history of the Republic.
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