President Giorgio Napolitano
on Thursday blasted political factionalism within the Italian
judiciary's self-governing body, stressing that the Supreme
Council of Magistrates (CSM) was not an "assembly of factions".
The head of State added that "improper negotiations
seeking compromises and unhealthy balances between factions"
were damaging.
Napolitano was addressing the CSM, the make-up of which
was finally completed this week at the end of a lengthy deadlock
in parliament over the election of new members.
A similar stalemate continues over the filling of two
vacant posts on the Constitutional Court, amid wrangling in
parliament between parties.
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