It had never happened in the long history of Confindustria to attend armored meetings, strictly reserved for personal invitations, barred to the press and observers. Yet the liturgy of the consistories and the peremptory order of the extra omnes was adopted in Turin in the first meeting for the renewal of the presidency of Viale dell'Astronomia. The only news of the American confrontation between the four was Marchionne's reiterated refusal to return to Confindustria with the FCA and Edoardo Garrone's bitter remark about "a system of selecting voluntary candidates and electing the presidency which drags with it strong reasons for internal divisions and dangerous aftermaths in the life of the association”.
The wise men and the Confindustria arbitrators had recommended greater confidentiality of the candidates in their public behavior, inviting them not to disseminate documents or programs, to renounce interviews or statements in this delicate phase of their polls under penalty of "the automatic exclusion from participation in the renewal of the presidency ”. The invitation to the essays was still fresh off the press and the "carbonari" work in Turin was in progress when a long letter of programmatic intent, signed by Marco Bonometti, invaded the entire confederal system and the editorial offices, followed, over the week- end, from statements and interviews on the three Brescian press mastheads. The written document (the analysis of which left no doubts regarding the pens called upon to draft it) informs that "the descent into the field" is made "in the name of love for the company and for Italy". Stuff already heard at the time in the political field. In the weekend interviews and in the greeting to the Botticino marble quarrymen, Marco Bonometti abandoned the stylistic finesse and the measured cadences of the document sent to the system, putting back on his natural and original (for this reason appreciated on many occasions) hat as a bersagliere.
Thus "Confindustria is almost all to be redone" and, having completely ignored Vincenzo Regina, the competitor colleague Vincenzo Boccia is dismissed as "a non-problem". An unforgivable fall in style. For Alberto Vacchi "there are too many applauses from Fiom and Uilm". Yet on the Brescian pages of the Corriere the candidacy is underlined like a roar from the Lioness and the repeated "I don't want allies or agreements" a proud sense of strength that does not take into account the articulated structure (merchandise, territorial, dimensional) of Confindustria. Perhaps some of Marco Bonometti's advisers are thinking of miraculous instinctive aggregations, motivated by consensus by the wavering hardness of the language or by the baroque style of a programmatic document. But that won't be the case. In fact, until today, the internal nodes of Confindustria such as LUISS and the red accounts of the publisher of Il Sole 24 Ore have been ignored. Not one word has been read or heard capable of highlighting the crux of bank lending to businesses nor the courageous "putting one's feet on the plate" jealously kept quiet about the chronic undercapitalization and the equity structures of Italian companies now known to be poor convents governed by wealthy friars.
