> The government is pushing for a constitutional amendment to help "fix" this feature. There is going to be a referendum on the change very soon.

Italian here. It's not like that: the referendum is about definitely enforcing the career separation about public persecutor and judges. Actually they are under the same authority and the member of this authority are elected according to a sort of political parties (unique case in the whole EU) and this creates some distortions in career growths and nominations. The new schema will create two different authorities and the members will be selected according to a ballot.

A similar proposal was made by the left wing parties few years ago, when they were at the government