On Thursday morning, the 198 members of the General Council of Confindustria will nominate the official candidate for the presidency: the entrepreneur who will succeed Giorgio Squinzi in the office at the General Assembly in May. The outcome of the secret ballot is not so obvious. In fact, Alberto Vacchi and Vincenzo Boccia came out of the survey of the Wise Men almost paired having collected over ninety percent of the designations, drawing consents both in different regions, between categories and territorial associations.
A transversal consensus that rewarded both the Emilian "metalworker" and the Salerno "graphic designer": in any case manufacturing. It is therefore very difficult to imagine a significant gap between the two in Thursday's poll, even if the secret ballot could bring out some indiscipline with respect to the decisions taken "at home" with small but significant last-minute defections.
What is certain is the fact that the two withdrawn candidates (Aurelio Regina and Marco Bonometti) will not be able to play the card of affiliation since the package of votes available in their will is really small and, after the withdrawal, even more uncertain . Aurelio Regina has left his Lazio supporters free and Marco Bonometti after the undiplomatic outburst that accompanied his abandonment is certainly unable to impose anything on the six Brescians on the Council.
Confindustria will have at its head a President who has not gone through the post-war reconstruction, the seasons of terrorism in the factory and that of heated trade union conflicts such as that of the 70s and 80s. It will have a President who will have to deal with a completely different political framework than the traditional scenario pressed by a consolidated script of consociativism and mutual exchange on the skin of public spending and budget debt.
It will have a President who will have to face the crisis of a soulless Europe which risks dragging with it the free single internal market, its currency, its economic freedoms on which the continent's economy has grown and, above all, that of the countries defeated and destroyed by the war: Germany and Italy in fact.
It will have a President who will have to deal with completely new industrial policy issues (think of company bargaining as a pillar of relations between the social partners) and issues of expanding the country's production base in the wide horizon of world markets and in the endemic delay century of the South.
Vacchi and Boccia approached the consensus with an innovative spirit, declining sponsorships or vaunted investitures. Now, after the Giunta's vote, the commitment of the government team and the programmatic points that are no longer stated but rigorously lined up to be addressed and completed await them.
