No rush, you have to choose well. After a troubled weekend, with a comparison of names that continued until this morning, it was Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni herself, well-informed sources say, who underlined that there was no urgency in choosing Giuseppe Busia’s successor at Anac. Hence the decision to postpone the dossier to a future Council of Ministers.
Therefore, the executive took its time. The indication would be up to the League but the names put forward have not found the support of the opposition which could block the appointment in Parliament as the president and the members of the Anac are appointed “subject to the favorable opinion of the competent parliamentary commissions expressed by a majority of two thirds of the members”.
The white smoke for Altieri, then the short circuit and the step back
On Thursday the white smoke for Nuccio Altieri arrived in the Council of Ministers but the protest from the political forces that do not support the executive created a short circuit which led the former Northern League parliamentarian to take a step back. Convergence is necessary but at the moment stalemate prevails. Despite yesterday the head of the Farnesina Antonio Tajani had predicted the approval today in the meeting held at Palazzo Chigi. Although deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini had underlined his intention to bring a new name quickly. This morning it was the leader of the League himself who put the brakes on (“The important thing is to do well, not necessarily to do it quickly”, he explained). Also because a wall went up from the centre-left on the solutions devised by the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. The first name was that of Alfredo Storto, chief cabinet magistrate of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport led by the leader of the League. Another that of Bernadette Veca, head of the department for the planning and coordination of economic policy of the Presidency of the Council. But the indications did not find the green light from the opposition parties. No green light either for the former senator Francesco Urraro, now a member of the Presidency Council of Administrative Justice, and for the lawyer Claudia Eccher, Salvini’s former lawyer and now a member of the Superior Council of the Judiciary. Salvini’s entourage made it known that the minister “dedicated the entire weekend to dealing with a provision expected by businesses and municipalities”, namely the infrastructure decree, “without having busy with other dossiers, to which he will be able to dedicate time in the next few days”. The appointment must arrive no later than 45 days from the date of entry into force of the decree approved on Thursday and which entered into force on Saturday with which the continuity of the functions of the ANAC was ensured, despite the expired mandate of the president Giuseppe Busia and the members of the body.