Is the Secretary Ugolini Canzio’s lawyer?
How can we not agree with the Secretary Ugolini when he writes that his Secretariat “therefore feels obliged to emphasize the need for politics to remain extraneous and respectful of the autonomy and independence of the Judicial Bodies, that the laws voted by the Council Grande and General have firmly affirmed ”? Perhaps, however, the secretary should understand that his institutional role is not that of being the valet of the Judicial Council, nor the official lawyer of the Executive Canzio. The judicial thing that worries us most is that the much heralded transparency that should have characterized the new course of politics has gone to bless it. The Judicial Council first expressed a grave and unsolicited solution regarding the work of the Director Canzio on the Serenissima case, without there being – at least to our knowledge – open proceedings asking for a resolution; then it would even be decided to suspend a magistrate serving at the Court. Mind you, this second prerogative is totally in the hands of the Judicial Council, but what is striking is the communication disproportion for which, on the Serenissima case, the decisions taken are published, while the most absolute confidentiality remains on the matter of the suspension. The Commission for Justice Affairs knows nothing about it, the Great and General Council nor the citizens even less. Who knows if it occurred to the Secretary of Justice that it would be his duty to know these decisions, which also have an impact on the staff of the Court, and perhaps communicate them to the other institutions responsible for dealing with the matters of Justice? What about the secrecy that has fallen over the decision taken by the Justice Commission on the Serenissima case? Those too remained secret. Evidently the San Marino citizens cannot and must not know what the Commission has responded to the request of the Director Canzio for audio recording of the Commission itself, or about the accusations he has made against political forces of having slandered. All secret. For now we do not enter into the merits of the decisions of the Judicial Council, we will do it as soon as possible, when the results are finally public; in fact, we believe that, while respecting the decisions taken and the autonomy of this body, it is the duty of the political forces to have an opinion on the matter. For now, we limit ourselves to underlining how, in front of all citizens, the Secretary of Justice should be concerned about what to know is going on in the Court, to inform citizens about these things, to form an opinion, legitimate and dutiful, on what happens; in short, should demand transparency and knowability, at least of the decisions taken, both by the Justice Commission and rather by the Judicial Council, who take it out on the newspapers that are only their duty, they try to dare those news that obviously someone does not want to be known to the San Marino people.
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