Honey, is Rivera really a dragons ward?
What is whispered to the Ministry of Economy about an article of the Republic that speaks of the present and the future of the director general of the Treasury, Alessandro Rivera, struggling with the change of government
Rivera pupil of Draghi? You have read?!
Questions and astonishment of this kind are chasing each other among the private messages of ministerial officials and in the corridors of the Ministry of Economy.
The questions arise from an article in today's newspaper Repubblica in which it is said that the director general of the Treasury, Alessandro Rivera, would be in the balance with the change of the executive.
If the Minister of the Economy, the Northern League player Giancarlo Giorgetti, would not be opposed to a reconfirmation of Rivera – but on the solidity of the positions and opinions of the Northern League exponent, many are perplexed – Brothers of Italy and the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, they would like a rotation.
In the praise of Rivera by the newspaper directed by Maurizio Molinari, the newspaper of the Gedi group writes that there is a “charge that the Brothers of Italy attributes to Rivera: having badly managed the files on Ita, Railways and motorway concessions”.
In truth, it has been whispered for some time in the dicastery in via Venti Settembre and in Palazzo Chigi, the former premier Mario Draghi would not have greatly appreciated the work of the general management of the Treasury considered to be stalling, chaos and uncertainties on relevant items linked to large companies controlled by the Treasury like Mps (the State is preparing for yet another bloodletting, which is not enough since the banking foundations supervised by the same Treasury are making a sort of collection to enter the capital of Monte between questions and doubts, so much so that Cariverona said no), as Ita (with the Treasury that failed or did not want to compose an unusual rift between the president, CEO and directors with a legal war that is ridicule, in truth, not only the Mef) and how the new structure of Aspi, in which the current government majority is now discovering unbalanced shareholders' agreements in favor of foreign funds .
On the other hand, to talk about these matters Draghi sent his economic advisor Francesco Giavazzi with the top management of the Treasury, it is rumored among the Draghiani.
For this reason, the part of the Repubblica article that is causing astonishment in the corridors of the Mef is another. And it is the one in which Rivera defines himself as a "pupil of Dragons". Especially since the current director general entered by competition as an official at the Treasury in 2000, a few weeks before Draghi left the general management of the Treasury.
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EXTRACT FROM THE REPUBLIC ARTICLE ON RIVERA:
Passed unscathed through three governments, in particular the yellow-green one that wanted to oust him after a few months, he should now pack his bags. Together with the entire first command line of the Mef. And precisely on the eve of a budget maneuver that promises to be the most complex in recent years. On the other hand Matteo Salvini had sworn it to him. Succeeding today in the enterprise that was missing five years ago when the premier was Giuseppe Conte and not Giorgia Meloni, perhaps more determined than him to make a clean sweep of all the grand commis that even remotely smell of the center-left.
This is the suspicion that hovers, between Palazzo Chigi and the Mise, about the man who knows up to the most hidden corners of Via XX Settembre for having beaten them inch by inch and then climbed to the top, during a career built in prevalence within the Department of Economy. Although, on closer inspection, there is also another charge that the Brothers of Italy ascribes to Rivera: having badly managed the dossiers on Ita, Railways and motorway concessions.
Estimated by all the ministers, including the center-right, who followed Quintino Sella's desk – from Giulio Tremonti to Vittorio Grilli – up to the end, the 52-year-old economist was given up as immovable. A choice of necessary continuity with the draghian management of public accounts, jeopardized by the recession at the gates and by the aftermath of a war that shows no sign of ending. Or at least that's what Giancarlo Giorgetti had assured him a few days ago, when he explained to him that yes, this was his intention, but that he wasn't sure they would let him do it.
Well, it seems that at the end of the tug-of-war the League minister had the worst: the director general of the Treasury, a protégé of Draghi, the one who, together with Francesco Giavazzi, dealt with all the strategic appointments in the investee companies, could soon be replaced.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/tesoro-davvero-rivera-e-un-pupillo-di-draghi/ on Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:57:26 +0000.