The CEO of Rai Fuortes was Draghi’s biggest failure. Will Meloni reform or subdivide?

The managing director resigns, just a few days after the ad personam decree that frees him the post of superintendent of the San Carlo theater in Naples. In place of him, “pro tempore”, Roberto Sergio arrives while Giampaolo Rossi, the man the premier intends to rely on, will be general manager

No one will probably remember which government closed down Alitalia, but when it happens everyone will remember the government that closed down Rai, the company that changes hands like a stick of dynamite with an ever shorter fuse. Busted accounts, revenues reduced by over 702 million euros in the last ten years, production processes of the last century, technological backwardness, about thirteen thousand employees and about one thousand seven hundred journalists who are much more than Fiat workers in Italy. And this is probably the reason why in July 2021, the Draghi government called Dr. Carlo Fuortes as CEO. We needed ideas, reforms, and modernity. Preceded as he was by the reputation of a man who didn’t let himself be frightened by the unions, it was thought that Fuortes was just the right one. A whole mythology, in truth, based roughly on four violins, an oboe and two timpani hyper-unionized and defeated by him a few years earlier at the Rome Opera. He should have worked to adapt Rai to the new times. Instead, after two years and ten months the balance is almost zeroboils down to the mere implementation of a new industrial plan that everyone, however, defines as “headless” and “irrational”. In short, Fuortes did only one thing: and it is wrong.