Rome, 26 May (LaPresse) – ‘What does Giorgetti’s absence from the committee tell us? That the majority is in trouble. It is not just today’s absence, because the hearing has been postponed until the 10th, but the fact that we have been waiting for a year for opinions on a reform and these opinions are not coming. Therefore, there is still no majority agreement, and this is a problem because we risk an infringement.’ So said the chair of the Rai Supervisory Committee, Five Star Movement Senator Barbara Floridia, on the sidelines of the presentation of her book ‘Once Upon a Time There Was Rai’ at Mondadori in Galleria Sordi, Rome. “The point is,” the senator continued, “it seems there has been correspondence between the European Commission and the government. We would legitimately like to know what they wrote and what our government replied, and whether the press rumours in which Giorgetti claims that, following discussions with the European Commission, it seems we are in the clear and do not risk an infringement are true. Who did he speak to? We know nothing. I’d like to be kept up to date; it all seems so uncertain to me.” “Why? Because I believe they’re actually in a tight spot,” comments Floridia, emphasising that “I believe they haven’t actually reached an internal agreement on the reform – I mean the three majority political parties,” specifying that, in her view, the dispute is “between the League and Forza Italia”. In this sense, then, “my request is that Giorgetti comes to the Senate as soon as possible, so that we can resume the debate and discuss the amendments and obtain a technical opinion from the Ministry on the amendments; and certainly, first and foremost, my request is that the supervisory committee resumes its work because we have a public service that lacks a parliamentary committee to provide guidance and oversight, and which should be monitoring its operations – this has never happened before,” she concludes.