Tajani: no dispute over the appointments, we’re about to close on time

«I hope we can close as soon as possible, we will do everything in time. Many reconstructions seem completely unfounded to me, there is no quarrel or war, only careful work to choose the most competent people, indicating the names of capable men and women who can carry out their service in the best way'”. Thus the Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, leaving the celebrations of the State Police on the Pincio terrace, wanted to throw water on the flame of the controversy over the appointments. Which remain the real incandescent match in the government.

The companies, above all Eni and Leonardo, about which it is forbidden to make mistakes. Giorgia Meloni insisted on having the last word in choosing the CEOs of the big 5, the most important public subsidiaries with top management expiring in the coming weeks. The discourse on presidencies is different, on which instead there could be a sort of rebalancing between the forces of the majority, in a scheme that would see two boxes for Fdi, two for Lega and one for Forza Italia, based on the weight of the parties but also of the society. The Azzurri would have been satisfied with the placement of Paolo Scaroni as president of Enel. The League would bet everything on ENI, where the reconfirmation of Claudio Descalzi is practically certain. manager highly appreciated for his commitment and results, also in view of the Mattei Plan for Africa, the prime minister’s workhorse to contain the flows of migrants in the future. The right profile, however, still would not exist. Luciano Carta would leave the presidency to Leonardo (some say to move to Poste), and General Giuseppe Zafarana, the current commander of the Guardia di Finanza expiring in May, would be ready in his place (the current second in command would be in pole position, Army Corps General Andrea De Gennarowho would also enjoy the esteem of the undersecretary to the presidency Alfredo Mantovano).

The weather hasn’t been the best in the last few days. Matteo Salvini also dismisses the tensions as “fantasies”, but his group leader in the Chamber, Riccardo Molinari, observes that “it would be bizarre if only one party were to indicate names to the detriment of the others”. A message in a bottle to allies not too implicit. But both Lega and Fratelli d’Italia are aware that they cannot emerge divided from one of the most important tests for the right for the first time in power. Contacts and discussions are continuous, also because in addition to presidents and CEOs, directors must also be identified. Some managers who feel on the sidelines of the game ask for information in a roundabout way, hoping to return. The scheme for administrators that the premier presents to the allies (the tables were also attended by the trusted undersecretary Giovanbattista Fazzolari, Gianni Letta alongside Antonio Tajani for Fi, Alberto Bagnai and Andrea Paganella together with Salvini for the League) provides for a woman to leaders of one of the 5, as he promised in public on the occasion of 8 March. It should be about Giuseppina di Foggia, current vice president of Nokia, who should land at Terna, while the current CEO Stefano Donnarumma should move – despite initial resistance especially from the League – to Enel. Claudio Descalzi will remain at the helm of Eni, one of the few fixed points. Just as the CEO of Poste, Matteo Del Fante, should remain in his place. The real novelty, on which Meloni has balked although aware of dissatisfying his defense minister, is Roberto Cingolani. That the premier wanted alongside her as a consultant in the passing of the baton with the Draghi government and that she now wants to promote to CEO of Leonardo. Crosetto would have preferred Lorenzo Mariani, CEO of Mbda who, in the list of appointments, does not seem to find a new place at the moment (but his name had also been circulated for Terna).