THE JUDICIARY: THE "RADICAL TURNING POINT" OF THE MID-1960s
https://doi.org/10.4081/ilpolitico.2019.237
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In 1964 Magistratura Democratica, a new group of judges and prosecutors, upheld a "radical change" within the Associazione Nazionale Magistrati aimed at enforcing the new principles of the 1948 democratic Constitution. The "radical change" supported by Magistratura Democratica had a strong influence on the final statement drawn up by the ANM XII Congress organised in Gardone in 1965. For the first time women participated at the congress: until then women were outrageously discriminated in the access to the judiciary. Students and labour movement (1968) shook the Italian society and the judiciary was not sheltered. The years between 1968 and 1974, despite the " strategy of the tension" and the bombs (Milano Piazza Fontana 1969, Milano Police Headquarter 1973, Brescia Piazza della Loggia 1974), were the season of reforms, reflecting the deep change in the society and giving new role to the judiciary. The judiciary that in the second half of the Seventies challenged and fought terrorism and mafia was the judiciary born from the "radical change" started in mid-sixties.
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