Altieri, here is the Northern League member who will lead the Anac, the Authority that lit a beacon on the Strait Bridge

A Northern League deputy, politician by profession, at the helm of the Anac, the National Anti-Corruption Authority, the Authority that supervises public procurement and which in the past has expressed criticism and procedural findings on the construction of the Bridge over the Strait of Messina, the "workhorse" project of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini.

The Council of Ministers which took place on Thursday 5 November at Palazzo Chigi not only decided to postpone the green light for the new bill decree. «The Council of Ministers - we read in the note published by Palazzo Chigi at the end of the summit -, on the proposal of the Minister for Public Administration Paolo Zangrillo, has decided to start the procedure for the appointment of Dr. Trifone Altieria President of the National Anti-Corruption Authority and of the division general Ivano Maccani, of Dr. Eugenio Rubolino, of the lawyer Carmela Margherita Rodà and of the lawyer professor Maria Rosaria Maugeri as members of the same Authority». «The start of the procedure for appointing the President - we read further in the document - is proposed in agreement with the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio and with the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi». The outgoing president Giuseppe Busia remains in office until the appointment is formalized. The proposal will pass to Parliament for the mandatory opinion of the competent parliamentary commissions, and will then return to the Council of Ministers before the final formalization of the appointment with the Decree of the President of the Republic.

With Altieri, known as "Nuccio", Salvini received two important appointments together with that of Giulio Centemero at Consob. «Beyond the subdivision. But much further. What a shame", was the comment on X by the leader of Action, Carlo Calenda. With an "irresponsible and very serious choice" the government "bends a guarantee institution like the Anac to the logic of political belonging", the PD's attack on Altieri, already head of the Defense department of the League and since spring on Leonardo's board of directors.

Born in Conversano (Bari) on 27 September 1975, a freelance journalist with a degree in Political Science, Altieri is known for his political activity in the centre-right and for the positions held in public and state-owned companies. From 2000 to 2006 he was head of the press office of the undersecretary of Defense.

Politician by profession. An exponent of Forza Italia, from 2004 to 2009 he was a provincial councilor in Bari, while from 2009 to 2014 he held the role of Vice President of the Province of Bari. In the 2013 political elections he was a candidate for the Chamber, in the Puglia constituency, on the lists of the People of Freedom, coming second among those not elected. On 16 November 2013, with the suspension of the activities of the People of Freedom, he joined Forza Italia. On 26 September 2014, following the resignation of Antonio Leone (elected member of the CSM), he became a deputy. On 30 May 2015, in disagreement with the political choices of Silvio Berlusconi, he left Forza Italia to join Raffaele Fitto's Conservatives and Reformists. On 19 November 2015 he moved to the Mixed Group, joining the Conservatives and Reformists component. On 8 November 2017 he left Direzione Italia and moved to Noi with Salvini, a political movement linked to the Northern League present in southern Italy.