Eighty -one large voters choose the new Italian sport government: two favorites, while the “armchair” aims to mediate the fourth vote. Between confidential dinners, phone calls and promises, the scenario remains open until the last
The future of sport in the hands of 81 voters who will decide on June 26 who will govern it. Appointment at the Acquacetosa building for the election of the new President of the Coni who will take the place of Giovanni Malagò After the no to his third mandate and also to the hypothesis of remaining in office to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics. The consultations have been going on for a long time between phone calls, promises more or less able to be kept and those dinners who sometimes decide the fate of the vote by completely changing the predictions, as happened precisely for the first election of Malagò (twelve years ago) that burned Emanuele Pagnozzi. favored. Speaking of dinners, it was said that some candidate then, on the eve of the vote, ate the first from Pagnozzi and the second from Malagò and so apart from the risk of taking a few extra pounds in the end the ribaltone arrived and the verdict favorable to the second: 40-35. Who knows if this time there will be double games, at the moment there are eleven great undecided voters who can direct the vote.
Eight candidates, two favorites and the Carraro outsider
There are eight candidates, but in reality they are reduced, with all due respect for Duccio Bartolucci, Mauro Checcoli, Pierluigi Giancamilli, Carlo Iannelli and Giuseppe Macchiarola, three: Luciano Buonfigliopresident of the canoe and favorite name of the outgoing president; Luca Pancalli, that after years of paralympic presidency changes the play of play and say both the one who has the best relationship with politics and the minister of sport, Andrea Abadi; Franco Carrarothree mandates between 1978 and 1987, which would have the ambition to leave the distance as a mediation solution, if the two strongest candidates were not too close to the finish line in the first three votes (from the fourth onwards to be elected the simple majority is enough). 41 consents are needed to be elected to the first vote, from the Buonfiglio front there is optimism of having this number of votes in hand, but there is still a middle night.
Impossible predictions
For a whole series of reasons, no one ventures predictions, also because there are not many those who have made a declaration of vote. The geography of the executive junta can help understand more: there are seven managers, two athletes (one is sure, Giampaolo Ricci of basketball, given that he is the only man), a technician, a representative of the promotion bodies, one of the regional committees and the other of the provincial delegates. Seven places but only five names can be voted, a parallel election campaign cannot be excluded. Then there are the two deputy, who will be elected by the president. The names of Diana BiantedI (Olympic Foreignist now in the Milan-Cortine organization), Laura Lunetta (sports dance), Stefano Mei (athletics), Marco Di Paola (equitation). On the other hand, in the Pancalli coalition, whose more appointed sponsor is Paolo Barelli, at the top of the Federnuoto and group leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber, the hypotheses converge on Juri Moricoleader of Opes, a sports promotion body.
