Susanna Camusso broke the delay and openly sided with Maurizio Landini, whom she indicated as her successor at the general secretariat of the CGIL for the next congress, despite the fact that the former Fiom secretary was once her bitter opponent. It happened yesterday evening in the meeting of the confederal secretariat of the CGIL.
Come anticipated by FIRSTonline last September 24th, Camusso chooses Landini's movementist and pro-Cinque Stelle wing to oppose the reformist and autonomous candidacy of the confederal secretary Vincenzo Colla, who however remains in the running and does not withdraw from the battle for the leadership of the largest Italian union.
Regardless of the merits, it is the method chosen by Camusso that raises objections and disagreements in the CGIL: an outgoing secretary general has never been seen to overlap the congressional debate and make a choice of sides to influence the choices of the militants and members of the so obviously incorrect.
May Luciano Lama and Bruno Trentin would have dreamed of doing so. Because it is one thing to promote a consultation and another to try to influence it. Moreover, the choice of the new secretary general of the CGIL belongs, by statute, to the new general assembly that will be elected by the Bari congress next February in which Camusso will not be there. But that Camusso detested the reformist left and chirped with the movementists in a line subordinate to the Five Stars is not a surprise.
