The election campaign of the sixteen prosecutors who ran independently of their political factions for the two vacant seats in the CSM following the Perugia investigation scandal, which led to the resignations of the Unicost and Magistratura Indipendente members caught up in Luca Palamara's Trojan horse, officially opened with an unprecedented live stream promoted by the National Magistrates' Association (ANM) led by Luca Poniz and broadcast by Radio Radicale. Among many new faces, and second rows of the currents, even a big name of weight presented the program and held his 'rally' in the fifteen minutes available to each of the competitors, accepting the challenge of moral renewal. This is Nino Di Matteo, the prosecutor of the State-mafia negotiations, now at the National Anti-Mafia Directorate. “Belonging to a group is the only way to make a career and have protection when you are attacked and isolated, and this is a criterion very close to the mafia mentality and method,” said Di Matteo in his attack against the “degeneration of factionalism.” Fabrizio Vanorio of the Naples DDA, the young face of Area, the only current that remained outside the wave of wiretaps, did not go easy either. “When Lotti, and I want to repeat this name twice, besieged the magistrates in Naples who were dealing with the Consip investigation, I said it, I didn't keep quiet, and I even gave an interview”, claimed Vanorio to demonstrate that there are clean souls even in associations. A clear rejection for the streaming organized in view of the by-elections of next October 6 and 7, came from the former Keeper of the Seals of the Democratic Party Andrea Orlando, one of the two vice-presidents of the Democratic Party wanted by Nicola Zingaretti. “The streaming of magistrates running for the CSM is yet another concession to populism. Too bad, this is not how you regenerate institutions,” Orlando tweeted, surprisingly. “At the CSM – Di Matteo explained in his advert – I would like to be above all a judge of the magistrates outside the system, of those colleagues who have been hindered in their activity”. “The Palamara case represents a situation for which we are all responsible – he added – and I also think of those who expressed their vote with a clientelist mentality, to then receive a favor”. In the “darkest moment of the judiciary I felt the need and the desire to use my humility and my courage to give a push to this system”, concluded Di Matteo also saying 'no' to the drawing of lots which is “an unconstitutional proposal and it is devastating that the magistrates, who decide on life sentences or on assets, or on the life of minors, cannot have the authority to elect the representatives to the CSM”. Thumbs down also for the “punitive reforms”, a position shared by all 16 PMs in the running. There are six women candidates: Anna Canepa for many years in Genoa, Grazia Erede from Bari, Anna Chiara Fasano from Nocera Inferiore, Simona Maisto from Rome, Tiziana Siciliano deputy prosecutor in Milan, Paola Cameran from the Court of Appeal of Venice. “I will not hesitate to shine a light on any episode that is less than correct, and I undertake to renounce my salary as a CSM councilor, except for expenses, because it seems important to me to give a sign of my disinterest,” Cameran announced. Calling for a 'pink' vote, she finally recalled that "in the 60-year history of the CSM, 450 councilors have been elected, of which only 5% have been women, now in the judiciary we are 53%".
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