In these clear and sunny days it is not easy to find some entrepreneur in the company at the weekend
or at least at home up the Ronchi di Brescia. The younger ones, they tell you, are in Madonna di Campiglio
and in Ponte di Legno. The others, the fathers, many on the Riviera to spend the winter or golf, preferably that of
Garda, surrounded by greenery and with the green that slopes down from the morainic hills to the water of the
lake.
Let's go to the shores of the great Lombard lake where some of the most significant names in Brescia's industry and professions await us in the reserved room of the golf-house. What do they think of the situation that seems to be tearing apart the Confindustria local? Says the first.“ I am amazed that a rust that starts from Marco's presidency Bonometti has been left to become gangrenous until today ... without intervening immediately with decision ..."
Continues another. “They tell me that since last July many entrepreneurs of the General Council have repeatedly asked the new President Giuseppe Pasini a meeting to put an end to a division that had, with Bonometti, forced all the past presidents and many associates to dissent”.
He continues “ It seems that only after the interventions of the press and perhaps also due to pressure from the Confindustria of Rome, this blessed face to face was convened for the weekend. A meeting to look into each other's eyes, say it like it is and, as a habit among entrepreneurs, find the right balance for the good of all..
” A doctor appears more skeptical. “Let's hope so… I see an attempt to derail the match. Or at least to water it down. When the thesis is put into circulation that the war is between those who have won and those who have lost in the Assembly ... it means giving more leeway to the tangle that imprisons the Association. It means trivializing the roots of discontent that has been palpable for at least three years.
An industrialist whose products travel the world interrupts him. “ Years that have seen everything and the opposite of everything and, above all, the continuous, heavy, negative judgment on the Presidencies of the past …. What was expected of the Presidents ... that they keep quiet in the Council while they were tried ... industrialists of rank, some of them Cavalieri del Lavoro .... others with business histories that have few equals ”. The high-profile lawyer steps in. “Perhaps those who have angular characters will have reacted with strong words leaving diplomatic hypocrisy aside”.
An entrepreneur who declares his retirement adds. “ I met many Presidents from Beretta to Carpani Glisenti; then Luigi Lucchini, the one who brought Italy's reddest FIOM into line. I also remember Gianfranco Nocivelli and all those who came after him. Different personalities with difficult profiles but behaviors always kept in balance with the style of Confindustria: respect for everyone, spirit of service and not springboards for parapolitical careers or good opportunities to gain the spotlight on a local TV or a photo in the newspapers".
He continues embittered.“ I read in the Giornale di Brescia, after that FIRST online broke the news,
than a meek man but very firm in principles like Enrico Gnutti, administrator of the Trafilerie
di Chiari, confirmed his exit from the AIB, emphasizing that Pasini has no responsibility.
Evidently these fall on the predecessor. Not only. He added that he immediately
asked to join Confapi. A slap in the face for the unprecedented AIB. As if a Cardinal of
Holy Roman Church abandoned the Vatican to pass to the heretical observance of Monsignor
Lefebvre.” The youngest of the table. “
I am a member of the Board of Directors of the AIB. I hope that Giuseppe Pasini will make his role of balance and unity prevail. I did the math. About 30 companies have publicly declared themselves dissatisfied for some time and against the confirmation of a director now disheartened by important parts of the association as well as reached by a criminal investigation by the Milan judiciary on his work as public manager of Finlombarda, the company of the Lombardy Region provider of loans to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Well, these 30 companies that ask for clarity measure, at a rough guess, a turnover of five billion euros. We can ignore it and think that all these industrialists are capricious dissatisfied. After the Lucchinis and the Gnuttis of Chiari do we want to lose these too?”. A somewhat rebellious signature from the Brescian press is added to the conversation. “It is certain that Pasini and his Deputies seem to want to play it on their own…. as if the management structure of AIB were a completely foreign entity ... almost a simple extra ... without fault ... but which has shown that it is unable to offer the Presidency a way out with a solid solution in all these months. Napoleon always had around him the General Staff and the Guard able to him, the latter to reassure and defend the Emperor on the battlefield and not just parading in military parades on the square of the Invalides ”.
I throw there. How will the situation be resolved? “ There will still be a lot of uncertainty and instability if the storylines of the
associative bureaucracy and the palpable influence of the past will condition Giuseppe Pasini. The man of the "round" will have to decide not to remain in an interminable "round-round."
