All women in the senior management of the Rai Oversight Commission. Barbara Floridia, senator from the M5S, was elected president with 39 votes. Rounding out the commission’s leadership are two other women elected vice chairs. They are Maria Elena Boschi from third pole and Augusta Montaruli from Fratelli d’Italia. The first obtained nineteen votes, sixteen for the exponent of Giorgia Meloni’s party. Five blank votes and two votes for Stefano Candiani, deputy of the League.
“Good work to Barbara Floridia, elected chairman of the Supervisory Commission of Rai. Pluralism and the right of citizens to correct information are fundamental principles of democracy. We will protect them with the greatest determination,” wrote M5s leader Giuseppe Conte , on twitter. address of the new president.
The presidency falls in practice to the opposition and, after the election of dem Lorenzo Guerini in Copasir, it went to the M5S as expected. In key grillina, the election of Floridia in the Supervision opens the race for his succession in Palazzo Madama: to command the patrol of five-star senators – as LaPresse found out from parliamentary sources – the former minister Stefano Patuanelli would be in pole position , he considered “ its experience and its ability to dialogue with the other opposition forces, also with a view to future alliances”, reasoned the same sources. Other rumors do not rule out the possibility of Alessandra Maiorino, also to ensure gender alternation with Montecitorio, where the leader of the group is Francesco Silvestri.
The other issues relating to the bicameral commissions on behalf of the opposition should also be resolved during the week. The presidency of the Covid investigation must go to the third pole. Even so, the M5S must obtain the commission of inquiry into the Orlandi case, while the chairmanship of the feminicide commission must be confirmed by the Democratic Party.
Source: IL Tempo
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