It's there has been talk of an eviction notice for days for the Director General of Rai, Antonio Campo dall'Orto. We are now at the next stage: the bailiffs are preparing the papers to present themselves in front of the horse in Viale Mazzini and formalize the execution deed.
The next A new Board of Directors is expected on May 22nd and, according to authoritative comments, the councilors all agree: for the Dg Rai the time is up, one cannot afford a delay that could later prove guilty. In recent days, two directors, Carlo Freccero and Paolo Messa, have published yet another appeal to salvage what can be salvaged: "...We have entered a terrible and disheartening decision-making stalemate". The main concern for administrators resembles a nightmare: the Court of Auditors.
If that weren't enough, the dossier, still open, on the findings raised by theAnac by Raffaele Cantone compared to the inclusion of 21 executives in top positions, now a new and certainly no less demanding one is being added, to such an extent, according to an internal comment, as to constitute the classic banana peel on which Campo Dall'Orto could definitively slip. These are over 240 recruitments that took place in 2016 on which investigations of legitimacy are underway and where the accounting judiciary may want to see clearly. Obviously, 240 is not a lucky number in Viale Mazzini and is easily linked to a situation that is also far from resolved: the ceiling on the salaries of executives and artists.
To add fuel to the fire, they are still open the dossiers on the editorial level, on the appointments to the affiliates (Rai Com in particular where the names proposed by Campo Dall'Orto, Tagliavia and Pionati, have not passed) and, first of all, the new Service Agreement. As we have written, having overcome the obstacle of the Convention, now for Rai it is a question of drawing up a draft of the Contract which must be submitted to the Parliamentary Supervisory Commission by the end of next month. But, it seems, little or almost nothing is known about this commitment.
So the central theme remains: who will lead the public broadcasting service for next year, just on the eve of a fundamental institutional transition such as the next general elections, scheduled for spring 2018? At this moment, does the Government have the strength to make a different change of pace? And, if so, who would take the trouble to manage so many conflicts for such a short time, until the natural renewal of the current Viale Mazzini summit? The simplest solution, they argue inside and outside the building, seems to be at hand: interim to the current President, Monica Maggioni. But we'll see.
