Politics · Italy · 8 hrs ago
Mattarella urges ethical rules for Italian judges using social media
Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella called for ethical rules on judges’ social media use during a meeting in Rome.
He was speaking at the Quirinal Palace to judges in training appointed in September 2025.
Mattarella said digital communication can spread quickly and reach large audiences.
He called for guidelines, not a ban, on how judges use these platforms.
He warned that misuse could damage the prestige of the judicial role.
He also said judges’ independence and impartiality are essential to equal treatment under the law and public trust in justice.
President Sergio Mattarella called for ethical rules governing Italian judges’ use of social media.
He said the speed and reach of digital communication require urgent reflection on how judges use these tools.
Mattarella said the aim is not to impose bans but to prevent improper use from damaging the judiciary’s prestige.
He made the remarks in Rome while meeting judges in training at the Quirinal Palace.
He also stressed that judicial independence, impartiality and professional conduct are essential to public trust.
- Who
- President Sergio Mattarella addressed ordinary judges in training.
- What
- He called for ethical rules on judges’ use of social media, rather than bans.
- When
- 10 November 2026.
- Where
- The Quirinal Palace in Rome.
- Why
- To reduce the risk that improper use of social media could damage the prestige of the judicial function.
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The judges in training had been appointed.
Mattarella met the judges in training at the Quirinal Palace and called for ethical rules on their use of social media.
- Speaker
- Sergio Mattarella
- Location
- Quirinal Palace, Rome
- Meeting
- Ordinary judges in training
- Appointment date
- 3 September 2025
- Statement date
- 10 November 2026
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What people are saying
The availability of new tools — with new ways and new effects, both in the speed and in the size of the audience reached — calls for urgent reflection, not so much to impose bans as to define ethical rules for how they are used.
Judges must not be subject to any kind of hierarchy, nor must they be influenced by the interests or wishes of other powers.