J'Accuse of Friday, March 27, 2026: The Rejection of the Justice Reform and the Decline of Giorgia Meloni
J'Accuse of Friday, March 27, 2026: The Rejection of the Justice Reform and the Decline of Giorgia Meloni
The rejection of the justice reform by the people, especially by the very young Italians, the so-called Generation Z, who not only expressed a clear NO to the sweeping changes that would have been made to the Republican Constitution in the referendum of March 20-21, 2026, but also expressed their disdain for an extremist right-wing government that is arrogant, divisive, and negligent of the country's real problems. How many other priority reforms should they have made before arriving at this one? Just think of the creeping corporatism that characterizes the country: from privately owned beaches demanding true liberalization, to taxis, pharmacies, notaries, local public services, etc. Italy certainly didn't need to weaken the judiciary by dividing its current Superior Council into multiple bodies, subordinate to the executive branch, as Giorgia Meloni and the Berlusconi family wanted. But this government's attention should have been focused on other issues and pressing matters, even though such reform was envisioned in the electoral platform, as Meloni repeatedly stated. Furthermore, the tone and arguments advanced by the government (the Garlasco case, the family in the woods, the judges who blocked migrant camps in Albania, etc.) to support the YES vote for the reform were carefully crafted and lacked any legal or etical basis. They appealed to their voters' bellies, not their reasoning. Thus, judges were often described as politicized, negligent, and incompetent, even going so far as to call them, as Bartolozzi, Minister Nordio's cabinet chief, regrettably did, "a firing squad." This expression, moreover, made by a former magistrate, reveals the degree of ignorance and incivility to which they have descended to push through a legally and politically questionable reform aimed at subjugating the judiciary to the extremist right-wing government, which would have plunged the country into judicial and security chaos, favoring mafias and corrupt individuals of all stripes. It was the return of young people to voting and political participation that defeated this shameful justice reform, and not only that, but also the entirety of Meloni's past and future reform projects, and you must acknowledge this. The resignations demanded of your ministers and undersecretaries after this defeat alone are not enough, but if you yourself had any political dignity, you would have resigned already. The fact that she thought she could pass a reform with a majority vote without even having to discuss it in parliament, and furthermore, presenting it to the country with lies and accusations against the magistrates, delegitimizes her in the eyes of the nation she herself invokes every time in her rallies. But let's return to the last monologue she delivered on her cell phone on the evening of Monday the 21st, after learning of her rejection by the young people. Meloni chose a tone that wasn't hers, different than the usual arrogant and demonic one; in a low, dejected voice, she addresses the country. She says she respects the will of the Italians, while the parrots sing their "Bella Ciao! In the midst of the bucolic setting of her villa." She ends her unnatural outburst with regret for the missed opportunity! Which one? The one that would have subjected the country to the dictatorship of the corrupt and criminal, weakening the judiciary. The Alternative to the government of the extremist right is in this wind of cultural and ethical revolution blown by the hopeful young people of an Italy that is awakening and that, ultimately, no opposition party can have the arrogance to claim, but the humility to follow and strengthen, opening the country to participation and political engagement.
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