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Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday
that the government was not at war with Italy's judiciary after
she and other members of the ruling coalition criticized a
Catania judge over a ruling in which the administration's
legislation on migrants was declared illegitimate.
"There is no clash with the judiciary," Meloni told reporters
in Turin.
"I say what I think.
"This issue concerns a specific ruling'.
On Monday Premier Giorgia Meloni said she was "astounded" by the
decision not to keep three migrants in a CPR pre-expulsion
centre and asserted that "part of Italy is doing everything it
can to favour illegal immigration".
The interior ministry said it would challenge the ruling.
Italian magistrates union ANM, meanwhile, on Tuesday stood up
for the judge at the centre of the storm and said statements by
members of the executive and the ruling coalition undermine the
"independence and autonomy" of the judiciary.
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