"This Sanremo is the third for me and will also be the last as president, because this extraordinary experience at the top of the company will end after three years, as was the intention from the beginning."
The greeting from Rai president Marinella Soldi arrives at the opening press conference of the Sanremo Festival, which, despite being widely announced, comes as a bit of a surprise due to its location and timing.
Last year's edition, peppered with controversies which caused the right wing already in government to rise up, cost dearly to former CEO Carlo Fuortes, who was called together with her by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi to lead the public television, which he had to leave a few months later.
This will be the last for Soldi who seems with his words and his call for unity to definitively close a three-year period of partying under the aegis of a very large majority led by Giorgia Meloni.
Now she will, first and foremost, decide the future of VialeMazzini.
The approval of the budget is expected at the end of April, then any date will be good for the renewal of the board of directors.
The doubt is whether it will happen before or after the European elections on 8 and 9 June.
Fratelli d'Italia - it is no mystery - is aiming straight for the role of CEO on the current general director Giampaolo Rossi, who accompanied the reporters on the Rome-Sanremo train on Sunday.
The CEO Roberto Sergio was not there, officially because he had a fever.
Today the two, accompanied by Soldi, greeted the workers together, although they did not take part in the press conference.
Sunday's absence on the train did nothing but rekindle the rumors of friction in the top couple, which exploded after Sergio's last interview with Italia Oggi with which the CEO, making himself available to Palazzo Chigi, outlining the need for a new corporate organisation, it seemed to many to launch the challenge for succession at the helm of Rai for the next three years.
Sergio can claim the approval of the industrial plan and the steps forward on the real estate plan, which should allow the public television to bring its debt under control, but it is on the editorial offer that the majority's views are not homogeneous.
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