Pasquale D’Ascola has been appointed new first president of the Court of Cassation. The decision came today from the extraordinary plenum of the Superior Council of the judiciary, brought together under the Presidency of the Head of State Sergio Mattarella. D’Ascola obtained 14 votes, prevailing of measure – for a single vote – on the competitor Stefano Mogini. In Commission at the CSM he had the votes of the president, the owner Renziano Ernesto Carbone, and of the togates Maurizio Carbone (area), Mimma Miele (democratic judiciary, historic left group) and Michele Forziati (of the “moderates” of Unicost).
Born in Reggio Calabria in 1958, D’Ascola is a civil magistrate who started his career in Verona, and then landed on the Supreme Court. Considered near the progressive current “Area”, it is also linked by family constraints to the former senator and lawyer Vincenzo “Nico” D’Ascola.