The lobbyists’ grand ball
Which lobbyists, which communicators and which more or less strong powers did Giorgia Meloni want to attack? Journalistic hypotheses go crazy. Francis Walsingham's letter
Dear director,
which lobbyists, which managers and which more or less strong powers did Giorgia Meloni want to attack?
This is the question that has been haunting Roman or Roman-centric buildings since the Prime Minister's last press conference.
On the other hand, the words of the head of government could not go unnoticed.
“I think that someone in this nation thought they could give the cards, but in a normal state there cannot be these conditions,” said Meloni in a press conference, raising the doubt that “some disorderly attacks on myself” are linked to the fact that “businessmen, lobbyists and singing company are not having a good time”. “I am not a person who gets scared easily,” the prime minister then said twice, repeating the “I am not blackmailable” that she said during the formation of the government.
A world, they say in the government according to today's Corriere della sera , «which has always existed and which, above all during the appointments in the subsidiaries, has implemented unscrupulous behavior or attempts at conditioning which the prime minister has experienced with great annoyance, in addition to having rejected them." "It is a class in danger of extinction, which carries out what appear to be alleged blackmail."
And again the Corriere della sera – not a little blog or Dagospia – adds : “A few months ago. During negotiations on state appointments. Imagine a manager who has well-founded aspirations of leading a public company, controlled by the Mef. Now imagine that for a given reason his prices, in the good graces of Giorgia Meloni, seem good but not bomb-proof. Then the manager, mistakenly, turns to a certain lobby that has always dialogued with Italian politics, and also with the centre-right. For the Prime Minister it is an unforgivable mistake: she is contacted, advised, in an insistent manner, the manager is supported, she interprets everything as an attempt at conditioning, in the same hours some article is also published on some site which is not exactly benevolent towards of the prime minister, he, the manager, is taken off the list."
Poffarbacco, dear director. The references are quite precise. An appointment at stake for the top management of a company controlled by the Ministry of Economy. A manager who aspires to another position in the galaxy of public companies and is considered favored and also in the good graces of the presidency of the Council. But then for various reasons that manager is not included in the list for the new board of directors. Circumstances that refer to a story that the newspapers have already reported. That is, the possibility that Stefano Donnarumma, whose term of office as CEO of Terna is expiring, could become company head of Enel. A scenario that did not materialize. But Donnarumma really needed communicators and lobbyists for the new position given that – as the most expert Italian journalist on state-owned companies, Gianni Dragoni of Sole 24 Ore , wrote at the time – Donnarumma's appointment to Enel "was strongly desired by Giorgia Meloni”? Furthermore, I also remember an interview – which caused quite a stir – in which the undersecretary to the Prime Minister, Giovanbattista Fazzolari, the man portrayed by the newspapers as the closest to the head of government, recommended Donnarumma for the top management of another company state , although that scenario did not materialize either.
In short, well, dear director.
On the other hand , Corriere della Sera itself writes today: “In the government they don't name names, but describe dynamics. They have no difficulty in better explaining Giorgia Meloni's words in the press conference, her denouncing, but without giving details, attempts to influence government action". And "names – continues the newspaper edited by Luciano Fontana – are not even mentioned by those who today offer themselves to understand better, reconnect, remember. But the dynamics appear quite clear: a geopolitical magazine that sends unsolicited advice to the head of government, a certain freemasonry that survives and that has always boasted, rightly or wrongly, of being able to "weigh" even in the phases of the action of government, or in the administrative phase of ministries, directing, or boasting of being able to do so, individual public officials in key positions as well as the awarding of contracts".
Geopolitical magazine that sends unsolicited advice to the head of government? Meaning what?
Limes ? It doesn't seem to me that the magazine founded and directed by Lucio Caracciolo puts such pressure on the executive, even if perhaps in Limes they were disappointed by an interview not given by the Prime Minister even though it was much requested (but how many interviews has the head of the Council not given government to the newspapers who also asked?)
Ants ? It does not seem to me that the magazine founded and edited by Paolo Messa aims to influence the government on these matters nor that it has a hostile attitude towards Palazzo Chigi. Indeed, as social media can also attest, the founders of one of the main and professional communications and lobbying companies – new shareholders of Formiche – assiduously frequent the presidency of the Council.
Comprehend ? It doesn't seem to me that the magazine recently founded by the renowned communications and public affairs company Comin & Partners sends "unsolicited advice to the head of government", as Corsera writes. And then, as we read in a phantasmagoric portrait-interview in the Foglio , Comin is "super transversal, politically equidistant, but still an Ulivo-Pd tendency, perhaps tempted by calendism".
Yet, according to what Il Foglio writes today, "the prime minister would not have been okay with the pressure received in various ways from some large communication and lobbying agencies, especially during the period of appointments to state subsidiaries. Among the people considered "not friends" by Meloni, a prominent place appears to be held by Luigi Bisignani, who also dedicated a recent book to the prime minister full of unpleasant indiscretions".
The book is the one recently written by Bisignani with Paolo Madron (in the photo with Bisignani), a long-time journalist expert in economics and finance: recent protagonists of an information tangle that has never been resolved about Tim.
But can Bisignani really put unwelcome pressure on Meloni? Can Bisignani really row against the centre-right government? Well, it seems frankly impossible to me given that he has been writing for centre-right newspapers for decades and is now a very prestigious and authoritative writer for the newspaper Il Tempo of the Tosinvest group owned by the Angelucci family (which also publishes Libero Quotidiano and il Giornale formerly owned by the Berlusconi family), a group editorial very close to the center-right and Meloni.
In short: oh well.
And at this point, perhaps a friend of mine who is familiar with Meloni's dynamics is right, writing to me, requested by me to gain insight into the whole issue: "With Meloni you have to reset the entire Roman potentate that existed before (and in reality was already in total decadence)".
Best regards,
Francis Walsingham
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-gran-ballo-dei-lobbisti/ on Sat, 06 Jan 2024 10:54:08 +0000.