The Equal Opportunities Committee of the National Magistrates Association is made up only of women and now they are looking for a man for the “blue quota”. The case reignites the debate on currents, merit and career management.
In the National Association of Magistrates, the very powerful ANM, a place of great decisions on the fate of the magistrates themselves, a laboratory that for years has been responsible for churning out “advice”, “suggestions”, “indications” on careerson the movements, on the CVs of the magistrates themselves, investigators or judges does not count, well, the same Association has launched an appeal to participate in the Equal opportunities committee.
Do you know why? Hear, hear! To allow this committee to include among its members male colleagues being, at present, entirely made up of women. This Association evidently has gender problems: come on equal opportunities to single opportunities. As is done in maternity wards, they should put out lots of pink bows because there are no blue bows.
A magistrate, the doctor, resigned Laura Rendawho couldn’t have had a more appropriate surname. In fact, it could be said that with Renda’s resignation the Equal Opportunities Committee is made worthy of the name it bears.
An appeal to find a male magistrate
Otherwise, when the Committee meets, a member of the same, closing the door before the meeting, as in the Conclave, should say: «Extra omnes homines». If they manage to find a male magistrate who will join the appeal we will have a situation similar to the one we had in the seventies in the classrooms of master’s schools where there were maybe twenty women and one man. Everyone has made steps forward trying, even in a grotesque way, to reach the gender equality with the female quotas but the ANM remained at the teaching schools, with all due respect for the teaching schools themselves.
For theAnmtherefore, – we read in the press release – «a new component is necessary to guarantee a blue quota within the committee.
The Council is required to designate him and send the male magistrates to come forward by presenting their availability no later than March 20, 2026 with an email or a message on WhatsApp to one of the members of the sectional councils who issued the request. Homing pigeons, ordinary mail, registered mail (and this given the ANM’s actions is a bit of a contradiction), couriers, deliverymen and the like are intentionally excluded.
The knot of currents and merit
Now, I ask myself: but all this adversity to the magistrates’ draw which would not reward merit but chance, endangering the same presumed merit that in recent years has guided the Association and the Csmgruel and fat, in governing the careers and sanctioning the wrong conduct of the magistrates, well, this condemnation comes from an Association that is not even capable of setting up a commission for equal opportunities? Sorbole, how efficient. Oh, by golly, what exemplary functioning and what, we would say, obsessive attention to merit.
After such a fool, the menu for a dinner between fellow magistrates and magistrates should also be entrusted to the draw. It really takes courage and even a certain amount of shamelessness to maintain that in these long years within the components of the Csm with clear different political orientations, left, center and right, have been privileged competence and the merit in the advancement of careers and above all that we have been impartial in the judgment of wrong behavior and actions clearly outside the scope of magistrates, men and women, prosecutors and judges.
Anyone who is, even to a minimal extent, intellectually honestcannot help but admit that there was a division based not on merit but onbelonging to a current rather than another, exactly as happens in the relationship between public television and the politics since time immemorial.
They were not even able to respect the questionable rule pink quotasimagine the rest.
