Carlo Nordio (born 6 February 1947) is an Italian politician, former magistrate and prosecutor, who has served as Italian Minister of Justice since 22 October 2022, in Giorgia Meloni's government. In the 2022 Italian presidential election he was the candidate of Brothers of Italy for President of Italy. Chi è Carlo Nordio, il candidato presidente della Repubblica del centrodestra, Fanpage In the 2022 Italian general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
During his later career, he was a consultant to the Parliamentary Commission for Terrorism and chairman of the Ministerial Commission for the reform of the penal code. Nordio served as deputy prosecutor of Venice until his retirement in 2017, dealing with economic crimes, corruption and medical liability. After his retirement, he collaborated with numerous legal journals and newspapers including Il Tempo, Il Messaggero, and Il Gazzettino. Since 5 December 2018, he has been a member of the board of directors of the Luigi Einaudi Onlus Foundation. Carlo Nordio, chi è il candidato a presidente della Repubblica proposto da FdI, la Repubblica
On the occasion of the 2022 referendum on justice, he promoted the reasons for the yes, joining, as one of its major exponents, the Committee for the yes.
In the early political elections of 25 September 2022 he was a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in the single-member constituency of Treviso for the center-right and as the leader of the Brothers of Italy in the multi-member Veneto. Nordio was elected in the uninominal with 56.2%.
On 22 October 2022, Nordio was appointed Minister of Justice in the government led by Giorgia Meloni, who became the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Italy.
He was one of the promoters of the constitutional reform project for the introduction in Italy of the separation of the professional careers of criminal judges and prosecutors. He stated that he agreed with the project of Freemason Licio Gelli and the Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due, even though he had never known the socalled "Plan of Democratic Rebirth". Nordio: “La separazione delle carriere nel piano Gelli? Anche lui aveva idee giuste”, , 18 November 2025. URL archived on
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