Meloni Pushes 'Yes' Vote in Milan Justice Referendum

Published on March 13, 2026 | Translated from Spanish

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni led an event in Milan to promote the affirmative vote in the justice referendum. She defended that the reform is not an attack on judges, but a tool to combat the degeneration of internal currents in the judiciary, a factor that has blocked previous changes. Meloni presented the reform as transversal, with support from active magistrates and left-wing sectors.

Giorgia Meloni speaks before a full auditorium in Milan, with Italian flags in the background, promoting the 'yes' in the justice referendum.

Refactor the judicial code: debug currents and optimize processes 🛠️

The analogy with software development is clear. A refactoring of the judicial system is proposed to eliminate structural code smells, represented by the currents. The goal is to debug modules that generate undocumented dependencies and conflicts of interest, hindering the execution of new patches or reforms. This update to the core seeks to improve the efficiency of the process, not eliminate the developers (judges). It is a change in the architecture to ensure greater stability and transparency in the executions.

Compatibility patch for democracy: restart required ⚙️

It seems that the judicial operating system has a background process, called currents, that consumes all resources and prevents installing new updates. The proposed solution is a compatibility patch that, curiously, requires manual approval from users in a referendum. If the vote is no, the system will continue running with the same version, known for its bugs and blue screens in the form of judicial errors. A classic case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it applied to something that, according to many, doesn't work all that well.