Meloni\u2019s tone was combative on Thursday, as she accused the current judicial structure of committing numerous miscarriages of justice, and calling some judgments \u201csurreal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Franco Parenti theater in Milan, Meloni doubled down on the central arguments of her campaign, insisting judges are unaccountable and out of control. She is also increasingly casting the judiciary as run by left-wing opposition \u201cfactions\u201d and accusing judges of blocking her key goal of clamping down on illegal migration and crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the reform doesn\u2019t pass this time, we will probably not have another chance. We will find ourselves with even more powerful factions, even more negligent judges, even more surreal sentences, immigrants, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers being freed and putting your security at risk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen justice doesn\u2019t work you can\u2019t do anything, no-one can do anything,\u201d she said. \u201cExcept this time,\u201d she added, urging people to get out and vote later this month. <\/p>\n
Entering the ring<\/p>\n
In the months leading up to the vote, Meloni largely kept her distance from the campaign, encouraging allies and ministers to deliver the message while she limited herself to occasional remarks and sporadic attacks on judges.<\/p>\n
But with the final public polls last week suggesting her side will lose by around five points, the prime minister has now decided to step in more directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meloni\u2019s tone was combative on Thursday, as she accused the current judicial structure of committing numerous miscarriages of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2440,40,50872,2199,1106,2003,7338],"class_list":["post-821780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-immigration","tag-italian-politics","tag-italy","tag-judiciary","tag-law-enforcement","tag-rule-of-law"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116218886015279694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}