After packing a previously uncontroversial bill full with measures that would help Retequattro avoid a move to satellite, the government yesterday lost a vote on one of the provisions contained there, on bird protection, of all things.
Gioacchino Alfano, justice minister, has now promised to listen to the opposition’s concerns about Retequattro. Quite what this means is unclear.
Repubblica today also provides the latest scuttlebutt on the nominations race for Rai. Touted as potential centre-right nominees are Mauro Mazza (area AN), Marcello Veneziani (area AN),Giovanna Bianchi Clerici (LN), Alessio Gorla (close to Berlusconi). No news about centre-left nominees apart from the candidates for president of the board, which now, by tradition (and not, as Repubblica reports, by any provision of the law), falls to the opposition to nominate; and the opposition seems not to want Claudio Petruccioli to continue.
In the race for the post of director-general - which, as we all know, is nominated by the board, which acts entirely independently of any suggestions put to it (!) - Cappon seems to be out of the running, with Stefano Parisi touted as a potential external candidate. It’s Cappon’s great misfortune to have come into Rai at difficult times for the organisation, in both cases shortly before general elections and the return of Berlusconi to power. I really wish that he would be given more time in the job - or indeed, that any director-general of Rai could last in the post for more than two to three years.
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