Even before the Sages, it was the London bookmakers who defined the race for the presidency of Confindustria in betting. They put Alberto Vacchi and Vincenzo Boccia in the lead, Aurelio Regina at a distance and Marco Bonometti far behind, almost six times the post. The projections have been confirmed in the facts. The meetings with the entrepreneurs in Naples and Turin confirmed the "head to head" and the Triveneto, with a slight advantage for Alberto Vacchi, also greatly preferred the southern candidate who can now place a strong mortgage on the Presidency. At the Council meeting on 17 March, the candidates who have exceeded 20% of the votes will have to present their operational program to convince the Assembly in the confirmation of the consensus and to lay the foundations for an association mending which certainly did not come out of this "electoral campaign" neither strong nor transparent.
Aurelio Regina has paid for the general climate which negatively envelops Rome and the Romans, leaving behind the ambitions of an entrepreneurial Region which, since the time of Luigi Abete, has coexisted and favored everything that the Capital expresses for better or for worse, in politics and in economy.
Marco Bonometti will have to ask himself the reasons for a negative result on all fronts. Party since last autumn in the post-Squinzi race, after having repeatedly minimized the problem of alliances and articulated consensus (I don't make alliances with anyone. I don't look for seats. I leave the exchange vote to politics) and dismissed with little style a valuable colleague like Boccia (for me it is not a problem) ends up gathering around him only his association, that of Brescia, remained isolated in Lombardy, without any weight in the North and blind confidant in the alleged patronage of Antonio D'Amato , which in the end proved to be a classic "package" for the incredulous Brescian.
Even prolonged and substantial support from Brescia's major entrepreneurs was lacking, who limited the hopes of success to the lead of the local press only and, over time, only at the beginning of the match. Not even the six industrialists from Brescia who have sat at the top of Confindustria for years have been able to weave a network capable of supporting their candidacy: they too are silent and withdrawn, totally absent from the national press and from their targeted presence in the system. Only the dead like Guido Carli and Luigi Lucchini have been brought into play as the "progenitors" of Marco Bonometti's candidacy. A useless and counterproductive forcing for those who knew the two personalities and their history. Marco Bonometti's angular and wavering character certainly didn't help him either, but his many Court advisers had to be up to the challenge to guarantee a result that honored at least the social generosity of the character and the "great" results of his OMR. .
Vincenzo Boccia deserved the consensus that repays him for his long service to the system, for an expertise like few others on the life and events of the Confindustria, for a concreteness that brings Southern entrepreneurship back to the fore. The results of his companies and the international frontiers of his IMA have talked about Alberto Vacchi, convincing everyone. So we await the "sparring" between the two not for the victory of one over the other but for the ideas that they will be able to put in place, the internal nodes of the system that they are ready to cut cleanly, the future of the highly appetizing Confindustria publishing especially after the vicissitudes of La Stampa and La Repubblica.
