“Rai needs to be profoundly reformed“. Elly Schlein he discovered hot water. In the most recent episode of A clean sweep, the secretary of the Democratic Party has put forward a proposal that is actually as old as shit, which all parties have been cherishing for decades without ever getting to the point. After all, once they entered the television control room, even the most convinced reformers have always succumbed to the temptation to have a say in the Viale Mazzini broadcaster. Now, based on the instrumental controversies progressive against the current Rai governance, the dem leader relaunched the idea, ensuring that she already has an action plan ready for use. “The Democratic Party is there with its proposals“he assured.
Even in this case, however, the emphasis used by Elly Schlein seems to hide a joke. Already in recent months, in fact, the Dems had advocated aimmediate reform of the public service but their proposal was received coldly even within the centre-left. The first to turn up their noses were the Five Star Movement themselves, who on Rai had distanced themselves from their comrades in the newly formed broad field. “Thinking of structuring a reform proposal involving exclusively the opposition political forces would lead us to a new one impasse. It would be doing the math without the innkeeper“, the Grillina president of the Rai supervisory commission had complained, Barbara Floridaasking a fair question.
As long as they were in government (and therefore had greater influence on Rai), the Dems had not expressed themselves with particular urgency on the need for reform. Now that Giorgia Meloni is in Palazzo Chigi, however, they are calling for urgent and structural revisions to the Viale Mazzini TV. If these are the premises, the risk is that the renewal proposals are conditioned by a marked political background and therefore destined not to find (as has already happened) widespread acceptance. The left, moreover, already in the past attempted to reform the public service but with questionable effects to say the least. In fact, the government led by the then PD leader Matteo Renzi dates back to a law which effectively extended the power of intervention of the executive on the appointment of top management. In practice, what the Dems are contesting today.
Now Schlein would like to change the designation rules of Rai governance with a unitary proposal from the centre-left. But in this way the Dem secretary would only repeat the failed patterns of the past, when the reform projects developed in the party secretariats understandably ran aground in the quicksand of parliamentary debate. And then, with what credibility does the left talk about “tele-Melons” but at the same time claims to pass off its plans as disinterested and extraneous to partisan interests? It is therefore difficult to believe that the profound reform hoped for by the Dem leader could really lead to a freer and independent Rai from the parties.
On the contrary, the suspicion is that the left’s continuing complaints against the current Rai (defined by Schlein as “government megaphone“), hide a surreptitious attempt to bring back on the air a schedule already seen: “tele-Pd”.
