On the eve of nominated at the top of five large public groups it is understandable that Prime Minister Giorgia's government allies Melons, the Lega and Forza Italia, are agitated to bring home at least one prestigious seat and some presidency, with Flavio Cattaneo as the leading candidate for Leonardo or Enel. Although she has claimed her autonomy in the matter, it is not excluded that in the end Meloni will make some concessions. But on the condition that competent candidates are found and above all suspicion. However, this does not seem to be the case with the first candidacies filtered by Silvio Berlusconifrom Matthew Salvini for the presidency ofEni and Enel. Berlusconi first attempted to nominate the former CEO Paolo for the presidency of ENI Scaroni but, once the hypothesis of an incredible return to the top of the six-legged dog has faded in the bud, the current president of Milan would like to be the president of Enel: a great return even there where Scaroni was CEO before moving to Eni . For Eni Matteo Salvini would instead like the Eurosceptic MEP Antonio Maria Rinaldi.
ENEL AND ENI APPOINTMENTS: THE CANDIDATES OF FORZA ITALIA AND LEGA ARE NOT CONVINCING
Two candidates that are completely out of place if they are not trial balloons to win the Presidency of Eni and Enel with candidates still covered. Scaroni, as everyone knows, is talked about for having managed relations with Russia for the purchase of the gas di Putin who was very dear to Berlusconi who in fact appointed him to the top of the oil group by dethroning the upright Vittorio Mincato, unwilling to sign contracts for Russian gas in the dark that seemed opaque to say the least. Between the 80s and 90s Antonio Rinaldi was General Manager of Sofid, the financial parent company of ENI, but to think that he has real skills in the energy field would sound extravagant.
Undisputed skills in the energy field could instead boast a scholar like countercurrent Julius Sapelli, one of the major Italian historians of the economy, for 11 years a director of ENI and today a director emeritus of the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation, who has always had excellent relations with the CEO of the oil group, Claudio Descalzi as well as with the ex Treasury Minister Domenico Seneschal. Although he is not a Northern League member despite the fact that Matteo Salvini was among his students in the history of economics courses at the State University of Milan, Sapelli was Salvini and Giorgetti's candidate for prime minister at the beginning of the last legislature but was immediately sunk by Luigi Di Maio and the Five Stars who had in mind the candidacy of the then Carneade Giuseppe Conte for Palazzo Chigi.
APPOINTMENTS: SAPELLI FOR ENI IF MELONI WANT TO SPARE
Sapelli has an impressive curriculum, he has taught in universities in the middle of the world, has written hundreds of books, knows Eni like the back of his hand having been not only a director but also a management consultant for Agip Petroli. However, he has an unforgivable defect for Italian politics: he is too independent and has a taste for intellectual provocation, not always linear and often wavering like when he seemed to wink at Russia Putin until he publicly condemned the invasion of Ukraine. As a young man Sapelli was a Trotskyist, then he became a leading intellectual of the Amendolian tendency of the PCI and Director of the Feltrinelli Foundation to then later approach the CISL. If Meloni were to choose him as President of ENI, as someone suggests, he would certainly make a good impression, he would scatter and gather cross-party consensus from right to left. And Eni would certainly have a President worthy of his story, one that Enrico Mattei doesn't limit himself to mentioning in the celebrations but that he has deeply studied and narrated. But intellectual independence does not seem too welcome a quality in Italian politics, unless Meloni wants to impress.
