After months and months of controversy and stop and go, the controversial parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Italian banking system - made up of 40 members including deputies and senators and endowed with the powers of the judicial authority - should meet for the first time on Wednesday 27 September .
Time is short as the end of the legislature is approaching and the electoral controversies risk complicating the work of the Commission from the outset and overlapping with the investigations of the judiciary. This is why it becomes essential to identify a guarantee president who will be elected in the first meeting.
In pole position for the presidency of the commission of inquiry into banks is the former president of the Chamber, Pierferdinando Casini of Popular Area, who however reluctantly should leave, by regulation, the presidency of the Senate Foreign Affairs Commission.
But the games are not over yet and an alternative that seems to be gaining ground in the last few hours is the candidacy for the presidency of Bruno Tabacci, the leader of the Democratic Center who recently joined Giuliano Pisapia's Campo progressista with his group and who in In the past, he led the parliamentary investigation into betrayed savings at the time of the Cirios and the Parmalat bonds with great energy and impartiality.
A military in favor of Tabacci, in addition to the undoubted competence on the matter and the consolidated relationships of mutual esteem with the President of the Republic Mattarella and with that of the ECB Draghi, there is also the position of balance between the majority and the oppositions, which parliamentary tradition wants the chairmanship of the commissions of inquiry to be reserved. Tabacci's position is strategic to deal with the perverse effects that the forthcoming elections could have on the Commission of Inquiry but also to prevent the Commission from turning into an improper political trial of the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, expiring on October 31st.
