Overview
- The Council of Ministers has opened the formal procedure to appoint Guido Stazi as Consob president, a step that starts the prime minister proposal, presidential decree and Finance Committee review required by law.
- The presidents of the Chamber and Senate have designated Saverio Valentino as president of the Antitrust under the joint-determination process that governs that authority's appointments.
- Both choices remove prolonged interim leadership after Paolo Savona's Consob mandate expired in March and months of stretched acting arrangements at the two regulators.
- The selections follow a coalition agreement that allocates key authority presidencies to parties and favours technical, non-political profiles for market and competition posts.
- Next on the agenda are parliamentary hearings, the pending ANAC nomination, appointments in state-controlled firms and a possible ripple from the ESMA leadership contest that could create further vacancies.