More or less veiled accusations of judicial intervention in politics have emerged recently, especially since the Prime Minister, who for more than eight years repeated ‘for justice what belongs to justice, and for politics what belongs to politics ‘, submitted his resignation. when he had more than half of the mandate he obtained in the 2022 parliamentary elections, which the PS won with an absolute majority. However, no surgery whatsoever Influencer prevents Portugal from being far from one of the countries where the political party system was most affected by judicial intervention.
The most infamous case is that of Italy, as a result of Operation Clean Hands, coordinated in the early 1990s by prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, who investigated cases of corruption that could bring Cosa Nostra and the Vatican Bank together in one sentence. The investigations led to the arrest of leading businessmen and politicians and imploded Christian Democracy, which had dominated Transalpine politics since the post-war period, as well as the Socialist Party. Força Itália emerged from real estate and telecommunications magnate Silvio Berlusconi, who joined the Northern League regionalists and the National Alliance post-fascists to form a government. For its part, the Italian Communist Party would eventually become the Democratic Party, which brought together the center-left. As for Di Pietro, he became a senator and founded the Italy of Values movement, and was also a member of the European Parliament and Minister of Public Works and joined left-wing coalitions.
In Spain, judge Baltasar Garzón, known for issuing the arrest warrant of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, joined the PSOE’s list of deputies in 1993 after a career in cases against drug traffickers, but upon his return to the court he dedicated himself investigating the GAL. , a group founded during the first socialist government to kill ETA members and supporters. However, he also acted against Basque terrorists and suspended the Batasuna party.
More recently, Judge Sergio Moro gained particular relevance in Brazilian politics when he presided over the Lava Jato trial, which led to the arrest of former President Lula da Silva. Often criticized for the political conduct of the trial, which investigated cases of corruption involving the Workers’ Party. He was Minister of Justice and Public Security in the government of Jair Bolsonaro, winner of the presidential elections that followed the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. before his resignation a year and a half later, in open conflict with his political ally. He is currently a senator of the center-right party União Brasil, representing the state of Paraná, from where he commanded Lava Jato, and is seen as one of the Brazilian right-wing politicians best able to reconstruct Bolsonarism, which would mean it could prevent Lula da Silva from being re-elected for another term after taking him to prison.
Source: DN
