Rai Appointments Stalled, Salvini: "Majority Summit? Maybe It Will Be Set Soon". The Democratic Party Relaunches: "We Need a Governance Reform" - World Online News
They still seem to be at sea the nominations for the new Rai Board of Directors. The majority has not yet reached an agreement on the possibility of proceeding with the indication of the new board of the public service before the summer break. Giorgia Meloni, returning from her commitments abroad, should take charge of the situation during or after the Council of Ministers scheduled for Wednesday. “You read a lot of things in the newspapers, maybe it will be fixed soon,” said the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, on the sidelines of the inspection of the construction site of the redevelopment works of the Monza racetrack. A necessary meeting between the leader of the League, the Prime Minister and Antonio Tajani.
Some parliamentarians of Forza Italia whispers that the time is now “no longer sufficient” for the vote first in Parliament and then in the Supervisory Commission. The agreement is becoming more urgent also because the vote in the Supervisory Commission to ratify the president is clear: two-thirds of the votes are needed, the center-right has only 24 out of 28 and the opposition is uniting to boycott the vote.
The Azzurri would not like the idea of electing the Board of Directors now and going to the Commission in September. If there were an acceleration, the Chambers would be called to vote on four members of the Board of Directors within the week. (two for each), to which would be added the CEO and the President indicated by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and examined by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.
According to the scheme that is being envisaged, the new CEO would be the current general manager Giampaolo Rossi (on the Brothers of Italy side), president Simona Agnes (in Forza Italia quota), two councilors appointed by parliament would go to Brothers of Italy and the League and two others to the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement, which would confirm the outgoing Alessandro Di Majo.
The Carroccio would therefore be excluded from top positions and has already received a “no” to its request to be able to indicate the new DG: a function that may not even be assigned and is in any case a fiduciary appointment of the CEO. But the agreement could be found on other boxes, given that the League could be tempted by the direction of a Tg or the Approfondimento direction now led by Paolo Corsini, close to Fratelli d’Italia.
The opposition, however, is on a war footing, it does not seem willing to rush into agreements and the Democrats in particular, for the moment, continue to pursue the line of not indicating any name. Indeed, they deny the press rumors, which have been circulating for several weeks, about their alleged proposal of Antonio Di Bella as president of guarantee, to reach an agreement. A hypothesis devoid of “any basis of truth”, the Democratic Party puts in black and white in a note, which instead “daily opposes the wicked choices of a company that continues to suffer from poor management by its top management, that loses ratings, that no longer guarantees the right to correct information”. Secretary Elly Schlein wants a new governance reform of the most important cultural company in the country”.
