Overview

• Pasquale D’Ascola won the CSM plenum vote 14–13 over Stefano Mogini to lead the Corte di Cassazione.
• President Sergio Mattarella presided over the special session, did not vote, and urged decisions grounded in transparency and impartial criteria.
• Italia Viva lay member Ernesto Carbone provided the decisive vote that broke the near-even split.
• Five members abstained, including outgoing president Margherita Cassano, Procuratore generale Pino Gaeta, CSM vice president Fabio Pinelli, and independents Roberto Fontana and Andrea Mirenda.
• Fontana and Mirenda had publicly condemned the recently approved “Testo Unico” on appointments and announced their abstention in protest, underscoring factional strains within the council.