(by Andrea Pinto) Agitated waters for the next head of Palazzo #Marina. The 21 June will have to be named the new Chief of Staff e the government still sails on the high seas.
According to Chiara Giannini's article in "Il Giornale", there would be many frictions within the executive for the prestigious nomination.
#Salvini he would like a name he likes because the Navy is closely linked to the management of the phenomenon of migrants in the Mediterranean. The admiral would be in pole position Carlo #Massagli, current military councilor of the President of the Council.
The Minister of Defense Elisabetta #Trenta, instead, he would like the Admiral Paolo # Treu, current naval chief of staff.
At the last Council of Ministers, writes Giannini according to palace rumors, there would have been a very embarrassing moment. They were all agree with Admiral Massagli's name, much appreciated also by the President of the Council, Giuseppe #With you. Minister Trenta, on the other hand, presented, for collegial approval and signing, the decree of appointment of the new Chief of Staff of the Navy with the name of Admiral Paolo # Treu.
"Those present would not have liked the exit of the colleague, not aligned with the choices of the rest of the executive and the same, they say well informed, she would have literally left slamming the door. "
Giuseppe Conte then dissolved the environment bringing calm. Apparently there would now be one convergence on the admiral Carlo Massagli. The motivation for the choice of the name would be to be found in the appointment of the next Chief of Defense Staff in place of Enzo Vecciarelli who will have to leave the service at the end of 2021. According to the Army, Navy, Air Force (EMA) shifts, internal environments say, next time it should be the Navy's turn to sit on the highest chair of the Defense technical-operational top and Carlo Massagli, due to his age, 59, could be the next Chief of Military Defense
The mockery of the EMA shift and the affront to the Air Force
The discourse of EMA shifting makes us smile because it is used at will by the minister in charge. Now it is invoked, on other occasions it was ignored. The case of the appointment of the Chief of Staff of the Defense, according to the EMA shift, entered the history books as the worst affront to the Air Force.
After the admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli, according to the EMA shift, it should have been touched by the Air Force with the general Pasquale Preziosa. Too bad that General Preziosa, according to what was read in the newspapers of the time, was not acceptable to the minister Roberta Pinotti. Perhaps because he was the only one who always told the truth about the various "dossiers" and had only one passion, the Air Force. Minister Pinotti, therefore, chose the army general Claudio #Graziano, breaking the ever written rule, but consolidated for institutional correctness, of the EMA shift.
The fact that today the EMA shifts are invoked again, after that "annoying" story is even more "joke".
As for the appointment of the Chief of the Defense Staff, the task falls to the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister of Defense. The proposal consists of a set of three names made also on the recommendation of the Chief of Defense.
The choice of the name is usually also shared with the President of the Republic.
Apart from the technicalities, however, the name of the triad proposed by the Minister of Defense is the one that should have greater weight, because it is one of his most direct collaborators. Especially that of the Navy for the thorny issue of migrants which, as is known, has often seen opposing ideas precisely the Trenta and Salvini. The minister has accused Salvini several times of meddling "sine titulo" in matters of the defense world.
Imagine, therefore, on 22 June in via XX Settembre the Minister of Defense with a Chief of Staff of the Navy next to him, not chosen directly, but imposed? Imagine the next migrant emergency when the new Navy chief will find himself in the midst of stormy waters troubled by Salvini and the Trenta?
Without detracting from the value and the skills of all the admirals proposed, which never like this time boast curriculum and professionalism of the highest level, the Navy is looking forward to hearing the name of its new Chief of Staff.