CDM, clash over the appointment of the new finance commander: the government postpones the decision. Ok to the norm for Fuortes, green light for the change of Rai top management

Yes to the “Fuortes standard” for the change of Rai top management and nothing done for the appointment of the new finance police commander. Started more than two hours late, the Council of Ministers initially convened for 4 pm was postponed due to the clash between the Northern League minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and the undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano on the choice of the successor to the commander of the Guardia di Finanza, Joseph Zafarana. Two names on pole: Andrew DeGennarosupported by the undersecretary to the presidency Alfredo MantovanoAnd Umberto Sirico, closest to the head of the Mef. The League got in the way and the pressure from Matteo Salvini’s party caused a stalemate in the executive which led to the decision to postpone the choice to the next CDM.

The “Fuortes norm”

On the other hand, the decree intervening on public bodies and companies was approved, a provision that will affect the choice, by the Meloni government, of the next top management of Rai and the future of the current managing director, Carlo Fuortes. In fact, based on the norm passed by the CDM, a new age limit is introduced for the administrators of opera houses: 70 years. Beyond that, they will decay. One of the effects is to knock out the game Stephane Lissner, superintendent and artistic director of the San Carlo theater in Naples. In this way Fuortes will resign from his position in Rai before the deadline (expected in 2024) and will take Lissner’s place at the management of San Carlo.

Controversial the Pd. “This decision is the condition that will allow the right to get their hands on public service. It is a very serious choice”, attack the Pd group leaders in the Senate and in the Chamber, Francesco Boccia And Clare Braga. “No one – they continue – felt nostalgic for ad personam rules. Against this decision, which is the premise of an occupation of Rai by the right, our battle in Parliament will be without discounts. The autonomy of the main cultural company in our country it must be defended because the public service must continue to guarantee that pluralism which is the salt of information in a democratic country like Italy”.

And the representatives of the 5S in the Rai Supervisory Commission underline: “Today, more than ever, a true reform of the public service is urgently needed, capable of preventing the depressing spectacle of a policy capable of occupying and occupying seats without a shred of vision, of planning and programming on the real challenges facing the public service”.

The other measures

The Cabinet also appointed Nicholas Dell’Acqua as Extraordinary Commissioner for the water emergency. And a state of emergency was approved following the bad weather that devastated the Emilia Romagna region.

The revision of the governance of Inps and Inail

The CDM also approved a decree which provides for the revision of the governance of INPS and INAI, with the abolition of the figure of the vice president and a change in the discipline of the general manager, who will be in office for 4 years. As can be read in the final press release, “in the initial application, in order to proceed with the adjustments to the organizational and internal regulations of the entities, it is envisaged that within 10 days of the entry into force of the decree-law an extraordinary Commissioner will be appointed, with the consequent forfeiture of the presidents, vice presidents and boards of directors”.