Giorgetti and Meloni accelerate their subsidiaries: the 2 billion in dividends are used for expensive energy

Palazzo Chigi seemed to want to drag it out, and instead the counter-order came from the MEF: we need to hurry up for the renewal of the top management of the large state-owned companies. It starts with Eni on May 10, then Enel, Poste and Leonardo. We want to avoid the political massacre game, but we also need to raise cash: the extra revenue is used by the government to finance the new spring aid

The dispatch, from Via XX Settembre, left informally: confidential communication, in short, without too much fanfare. But the message was clear. The Ministry of the Economy has urged the large state-owned companies, all already in a frenzy for the grand spring ball, to speed things up. No longer June, and not even the end of May, as it seemed. The initial hesitations of Palazzo Chigi therefore seem to have been set aside. The convening of the shareholders’ meeting for the renewal of the board of directors must be brought forward to the first half of May. The first to respond was Eni: May 10 will be judgment day. The others, from Enel to Poste via Leonardo, will follow. It is a haste, that of the government, which betrays two anxieties. One has to do with the game of massacre that always accompanies the eve of major appointments, and the attempt to limit it. The other, more banal, concerns the need to raise cash.