The Jubilee of Mercy brought together a few thousand Italian entrepreneurs in the Sala Nervi of the Vatican who, with their families, marked a "first time" in the centenary and secular life of Confindustria. However, the pilgrimage (Italian only) made it possible to put the angular road of succession to Giorgio Squinzi on the back burner for a few hours and a renewed silence on the election procedures which show the obvious limits of transparency of a Statute that needs to be quickly rewritten in the wake of a associative tradition certainly marked by elitist values but also by great openness to discussion and comparison.
An absolute silence fell on the candidacies and their proposals; the decisions of the territorial and categories are taken behind closed doors; the voting decisions are generally announced and the preference postponed until better times. Even the Young Industrialists (once innovators of the system and, often, irreverent goaders of the candidacies) have adapted to the general armored climate. Their president Marco Gay, on television the day after the Council, glossed over the decision taken, limiting himself to speaking of the Pope and his message.
This institutionalized "prison" has brought out the supplementary role of some past-presidents authorized to act as sponsors of this or that candidate but basically very happy to be considered the great protagonists of the Confindustria delivery room. Only Giorgio Fossa (of true Romitian style) keeps away as all the great presidents of the past have always done. Even the information press is reluctant to play the card of a "trip to Confindustrial Italy" of its best correspondents, preferring to stick to the press releases and an evident equidistance in silence.
On the other hand, the publishing properties have their sights set on the near future of the Sole 24 Ore. Also for this reason the Roman gossip dictates the rhythms and the work of the professional supporters is aimed at the minor editorial offices, at the few living rooms still open, at the chats on the Transatlantic with this or that provincial deputy. In the last few hours, Enrico Cisnetto, an old fox in economic journalism and public relations, has been recruited to support Marco Bonometti's candidacy.
The creator of the cultural-worldly summers of Cortina and those of Roma-Incontra will have his work cut out for him to get a badly born and worse managed candidacy back on track in defiance of the character who has good business, a black and white character and a desire to do. Perhaps it is too late to recover Marco Bonometti from the Lombard isolation and from the widespread skepticism of the Three Venices: a candidacy in opposition to the strong one of Alberto Vacchi and the deserving one of Boccia in the South. In Naples we will see in the next few hours if the past-president , Antonio D'Amato, will be able to impose the Brescian Marco Bonometti on the Campania. We will come back to it.
