Italian magistrates have launched an urgent investigation into the pardon granted to a former showgirl associated with Silvio Berlusconi, examining the circumstances surrounding the controversial decision.

Italy's magistrates union, ANM, offered to collaborate with Premier Giorgia Meloni's government to accelerate justice, following her report to parliament on the executive's agenda and justice system reforms.

Claudio Cottatellucci, president of the National Association of Juvenile and Family Magistrates, criticized a ministerial inspection as an 'unjustified' act of intimidation, stating that interventions should only occur in cases of disciplinary violations, calling it 'judicial illiteracy'.