The Rai board splits on Rao on Tg2: the appointment passes with the vote of Forza Italia

Was saved by Gianni Letta. Only the intervention of the eminence of Forza Italia meant that Simona Agnes voted in favor of the appointment of Nicholas Rao at the helm of Tg2. Otherwise the CEO of Rai Carlo Fuortes would even end up in the minority. With all the consequences of the case. It was a troubled board of directors this morning: three votes against the appointment of Rao in place of Gennaro Sangiuliano, who has become minister of culture as we know. Result: split advice and provision passed by a whisker, given that Agnes, in FI share, was ready to oppose.

Against Fuortes the representatives of Pd, M5S and workers. This is their joint note at the end of the board meeting: “We find ourselves, one year after the previous appointments of the directors of the Rai newspapers, ascertaining the lack of transparency and objectivity in the method and in the nomination criteria in relation to the choice of the direction of a important publication such as Tg2, which certainly needs an authoritative guide as soon as possible. Once again the Rai Board of Directors finds itself ratifying a choice taken elsewhere and which consists in the proposal of a name acceptable to the current government“, said Francesca Bria, Alessandro Di Majo and Riccardo Laganà. From Palazzo Chigi they say that they did not expect a similar breakup. Meloni in the meeting with Fuortes last month, revealed by the Foglio, had asked the CEO for “a system vision ” and not a divisive management. A complicated circumstance in any case given the internal structures of Rai where Fratelli d’Italia is not represented.

• Simone Canettieri

• Viterbese, 1982. On paper since September 2020 as editor. Eight years for the Messenger (in the news and for the politician). Even earlier in Emilia Romagna as a correspondent (between the birth of the M5s and the earthquake), in Florence as editor of the Nuovo Corriere (dealing with crime and judicial news every morning). He started in Viterbo at 19 with skating and minor football, then at 26 he got his first job. He has written for Oggi, Linkiesta, travel and gastronomy inserts. He collaborated with RadioRai, but also with local television and radio stations that never paid. Agnes 2020 Award for printed paper in Italy.