Acre, everything about the fight between Palenzona and Guzzetti
The latest rumors on the renewal of the top management of Acri, the association of banking foundations. The opposing moves of Guzzetti and Palenzona, who has developed a sort of program for Acri which sounds like a criticism of Guzzetti's management of Acri. Here are the details
The war between Fabrizio Palenzona and Giuseppe Guzzetti for the renewal of the top management of Acri, the association that brings together and represents banking foundations, has officially begun – with some initial bruises.
The newspaper Repubblica made headlines with the news of the failure of Fabrizio Palenzona's candidacy for president of Acri, news relaunched by other newspapers such as Mf-Milano Finanza . But what is true and different compared to similar noises circulated before Christmas on Dagospia ?
Yesterday a long-awaited meeting of the North West Council of Acri took place, the "loya jirga" which brings together the Piedmontese and Ligurian foundations.
Prufumo, the outgoing president of the association and president of the Compagnia di San Paolo, was not expected and instead showed up. The most reliable reconstructions say that Profumo was called to order by the Great Old Man of the Acri world, namely Giuseppe Guzzetti.
Guzzetti tried everything, mobilizing both Profumo and Ezio Raviola of CariCuneo, to prevent Palenzona's candidacy and suppress a programmatic document which in Guzzetti's eyes sounded like a disavowal of his "pontificate".
Despite Profumo's efforts – efforts called "filings" by the newspaper Repubblica -, the document saw the light. Despite the soft tones and the constructive spirit, in fact – according to the interpretation of Start Magazine – it is a harsh accusation against Guzzetti's management of the association of banking foundations, given that Guzzetti was dominus of Acri for a long time and still today Perfume contact person.
Emblematic of the implicit roughness of the text are these two passages of the document, where it is hoped to "make the central structures of Acre more efficient, in terms of better and greater services provided to the foundations" and to "provide for a broader involvement of the general secretaries in the associative activities / general managers with specific regard to operational and technical aspects". Objective: “To make Acri's activity quicker and more effective”, we read in a draft.
“The draft that is circulating is a real program for the Acri summit, an unprecedented aspect compared to the past and therefore in many respects also disruptive”, comments an exponent of a small banking foundation to Start Magazine .
An interpretation not shared by the Palenzonian entourage. So Palenzona would have preferred to take his time as a Christian Democrat: he thought (unrealistically) that he would almost be acclaimed as a presidential candidate, an unsuccessful move, but he did not withdraw from the race. Guzzetti's game has in fact become exposed and Palenzona now prefers to calibrate his next moves.
Not even Guzzetti emerges triumphant at the moment, as he sees himself officially contested, albeit indirectly, in a document circulating among the foundations.
Both Profumo and Raviola, who yesterday acted as "rams" on behalf of Guzzetti, are outgoing presidents of their respective foundations.
The former has been promised the presidency of Intesa Sanpaolo in a year (Carlo Messina permitting), while the latter could be brought back as a director in Compagnia di San Paolo, among the co-opted councillors.
What is certain is that the game is getting to the heart of things, and that the president of the Region and the mayor of Turin (the latter a true deus ex machina of the Compagnia di San Paolo) will certainly be tugged at by the jacket.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/acri-palenzona-guzzetti/ on Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:09:14 +0000.