Meloni Moves to Restrict Power of Activist Judiciary

The government of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is now the third-longest in the history of the post-war Italian republic. Her polling has been stable, with Meloni’s Brothers of Italy hovering at the 30 per cent mark for the entirety of her time in office. For a country whose prime ministers last, on average, just over a year, this is no easy feat.

Meloni was partially able to achieve this by spending many of her first few years placating her moderate coalition allies and Brussels establishmentarians, a move which enabled her to get past initial scepticism of her party’s far-right sympathies. At the same time, she was able quietly to enact socially conservative wins and lay groundwork for a pan-Western nationalism. 

But now that she is firmly ensconced, she has set her sights on making significant changes to Italian law. And while some have made a splash – such as one which restricts the ability of protestors to block traffic and cause commotions – her largest move to date has dwarfed them all: A reconfiguration of Italy’s judiciary.