Rai, the hypothesis of the postponement of board appointments gaining ground
The majority summit did not untie the knot on the renewal of the board for Viale Mazzini. The game is still open, but the prospect of the Cda in prorogatio is emerging
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The day after the majority summit between Giorgia Meloni and deputy prime ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, the RAI node remains on the table. And although there is no official stance in one direction or the other, on the day after the most credited hypothesis is that of the postponement of appointments to the board of directors, with the current board called to go ahead in prorogatio.
The date set in red on the calendar is 12 September, when Parliament (so far calendared by the Senate) should be called upon to choose the four members of parliamentary appointment. But the conditional is a must, because there is still no square at the end and there is talk of a postponement, even though the game cannot be said to be over at the moment, one way or the other.
The Vigilance Node
.There is obviously the problem of the Vigilanza: the president (chosen by the Mef) needs a two-thirds majority of the bicameral commission to be appointed and the centre-right is three votes short, but the scheme that has been leaked so far - with the current dg Giampaolo Rossi (in FdI share) as the new ad, Simona Agnes (in FI share) president, and two councillors of parliamentary appointment to FdI and Lega - according to reconstructions would continue to clash with internal problems within the majority (with the Lega firm in asking for the post of director or directorates of weight such as the Directorate of Deepening or that of Day time and with the stumbling block of the necessary agreement with the opposition to have numbers in the Vigilanza).
'In order to close we also need the opinion of the oppositions, it is not just a question of the majority. Because the president must also have the vote of someone from the oppositions. We have to see if someone from the oppositions has the intention to build,' said deputy prime minister and Lega League leader Matteo Salvini in connection with affaritaliani.it's 'La Piazza' event.
Oppositions recomposed on public TV
On this last point, the opposition, united on the RAI issue, is asking - threatening not to participate in the vote either in Parliament or in the Vigilanza - to proceed with the appointments only after a reform of RAI governance in line with the EU Media Freedom Act, considered to be the picklock with which to unhinge the dependence of public TV on politics.
