Green light from the RAI board of directors to
ratify the appointment of Carlo Fuortes as CEO of public TV with five votes in favor and the abstention of Riccardo Laganà
, director elected by the employees.
The result of the vote was identical for Marinella Soldi, the director indicated by the Treasury, who was elected president.
The Rai Board of Directors, chaired by Carlo Fuortes as senior director, after the shareholders' meeting, has appointed Marinella Soldi for the office of chairman, who - according to a note from Viale Mazzini - will enter in full capacity after approval by two thirds of the members of the parliamentary supervisory commission.
The new managing director, following the indication of the Mef, is Carlo Fuortes.
The meeting of the Rai Supervisory Commission for the binding opinion on the appointment of the chairman of the Rai board, Marinella Soldi, was convened for Wednesday 21 July at 8.
"Good luck and good work to the new CEO of Rai Carlo Fuortes. As you know, we consider the appointment mechanism deeply wrong which - as we denounced yesterday - entrusts excessive control over Rai to the government and the government parties. this the priority for the Public Service remains the governance reform ". Thus the executive Usigrai in a note. "We hope that the path that led to his appointment does not interfere with Fuortes' work - emphasizes Usigrai -. Rai needs to get back on track urgently: the Public Service needs investments and relaunch. For this, we hope to meet the new CEO as soon as possible to learn about his mandate, his ideas, his projects,and to be able to discuss the urgencies and the reforms needed by Rai "." We are then awaiting - concludes the note - the completion of the company's top management, so we respectfully await the decision of the Supervisory Commission on the appointment of Marinella Soldi as Chairman ".