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Politico (12 March 2026)

Hannah ROBERTS

In combative form, the prime minister said Italy needed judicial reform as judges are politically biased and blocking her fight against illegal migration. 

Facing possible defeat in an important referendum, Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday put herself at front of the campaign, throwing her full political weight behind a vote that is increasingly shaping into a test of her authority.

The March 22-23 referendum on judicial reform is a decisive showdown for Meloni. The Italian right has long looked for an opportunity to remold a legal system that it sees as skewed to favor the left.

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