Mattarella receives Nordio, limits on ministerial powers regarding pardons clarified

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Mattarella receives Nordio, limits on ministerial powers regarding pardons clarified

Power that the Constitution reserves exclusively to the President of the Republic

ROME,

16 July 2026, 18:38

ANSA English Desk

- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

President Sergio Mattarella on

Thursday received Justice Minister Carlo Nordio to clarify the

limits on the minister's powers regarding the granting of

pardons after Nordio opened proceedings to pardon a jeweler

whose prison term of 14 years and nine months for shooting dead

two fleeing robbers and wounding a third after a heist at his

shop in 2021 was upheld by the supreme court on Wednesday,

making the verdict definitive.

Mattarella stressed that that the Constitution reserves such

powers exclusively to the President of the Republic, as

confirmed by a Constitutional Court with Ruling 200 of 2006, a

statement from the presidential palace said.

The term handed to Mario Roggero, 72, sparked widespread dismay

and the parliamentary whips of the ruling majority's parties had

launched a petition calling on the justice ministry to request a

pardon for him.

Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, a senior member of Premier

Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, said

via X that "every possibility should be explored" to enable

Roggero to return home, arguing the verdict was "unjust,

incomprehensible, and difficult to accept".

Roggero's brother Dante Roggero said the jeweler would turn

himself in when the incarceration request is made official.

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