The government against Rai after the “Annunziata case”. But the goal remains Fuortes

After weeks of silence, the Rai dossier is back at the top of the government’s agenda. The background is easy to tell: the interjection that Lucia Annunziata let slip in her broadcast “Half an hour more” during the interview with the Minister for Equal Opportunities Roccella, has rekindled old controversies on the right. The accusations are of “partisanship and ideology”: a “leftist” journalism that irritates the majority. A nuisance that yesterday took the form of a note written by the members of Fratelli d’Italia in Rai Supervision: several lines whose conclusion is the need to “turn the page”. In other words: the announcement of an imminent change at the top and in the schedules of the public network.

The underlying goal is always the same: increase the pressure on the current managing director, Carlo Fuortes, to leave office after the approval of the budget, on April 15th. The replacement is already ready: the current director of Rai Com and director of Radio Rai, Robert Sergio. The attacks aimed at Annunziata are just a pretext to re-propose a flag dear to both Meloni and Salvini. And the same note confirms it: “Respect for taxpayers who pay the Rai license fee can no longer fail”.

Lucia Annunziata – whose contract expires in June 2024 – is not the only suspect on the government list. The battle that will continue will probably also involve another face of Rai 3, Fabio Fazio: Matteo Salvini’s invectives in past years against the host of “Che tempo che fa” immediately come back to mind. Two names that open a round of assignments in the schedules where it is easy to glimpse a small revolution: from the substitution to the change of timetable, there are many weapons available to Palazzo Chigi. If it is still difficult to predict how public television will be reorganized, it is clear that the struggle for power in information has suddenly reignited.