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There is a politicisation of the judiciary that negatively distinguishes our country in the European context and shakes citizens' confidence in the judiciary. An entire political class has been swept away with a few convictions, but with many notices of investigation, sometimes with the suspicion that these were carefully calibrated to achieve political effects.

— Rocco Buttiglione

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Those who attack the judiciary do so to find themselves an alibi... The primary enemy is corruption.

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