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It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The day after the letter from the five Rai directorsangry at the CEO and the president for not have been informed of the arrival in Sanremo of President Sergio Mattarella, there are those who try to reduce what happened. Yes, because apart from the undoubted success of the event, crowned by the presence of the head of state, the story of the letter ended up highlighting even more the loneliness of CEO Carlo Fuortes. This was not the goal – one of the five subscribers now confides -: we just wanted to point out that it was failed for the umpteenth time to inform the board. Just like the Ukrainian leader Zelensky.

In viale Mazzini, however, someone yesterday provided a different explanation of the protest, tracing it back to irritation at the way Mattarella was invited. In Rai the direct line with the Quirinale would always be held by Silvia Calandrellipowerful director of Rai Culture. Not this time for. To make the situation worse, on Tuesday morning, came the words with which Amadeus publicly flaunted the success of the secret negotiation carried out together with his agent Lucius Presta and the councilor of the Quirinale, John Grasso. Too much to pass over in silence.

The first to take pen and paper to write to Fuortes would have been the adviser closest to the director, Frances Bria (Pd share), joined by employee representative RRichard Lagan and the grillino member Alexander of Mayo. The letter was not to be disclosed, precise the source. But then something got out of control.

The letter, submitted to the other two councillors Simone Agnes (FI) and Igor De Biasio (League), has garnered approval and at this point the controversy has made a qualitative leap, becoming political. And publish. After all, what all five councilors sided against Fuortes a novelty, above all for the presence among them of Bria, the one who in the last board of directors, by voting in favor of the budget, had made its approval possible. The wind is turning: Fuortes is accredited with Meloni to stay in Rai but is losing the support of the Democratic Party it was the most accredited reading yesterday. According to other rumors, the premier would have offered the manager the direction of the Florentine Maggio to leave Rai, but him he would have refused.

Asked about the harsh words with which Amadeus yesterday attacked the Rai directors who wrote the letter, inviting them to thank for Mattarella’s presence instead of arguing, the manager did not want to comment. He should have contradicted the conductor who swore at the press conference that there were three who knew about the negotiations with Mattarella is that Fuortes was not aware of it. In reality, the CEO would have known about the operation, but at the last minute, having to receive the president. However, the rumor, circulated yesterday, that it was he, Fuortes, who invited the president through Roberto Benigni, would not be true. As for the advisors, beaten by Amadeus, Lagan replies: Wrong goal. Mattarella’s participation was not in the viewfinder but the way in which it was obtained.