In search of an unassailable or at least 'armoured' name, this time, for the presidency of the Anac. This is the League's undertaking a few days after the resignation of Northern League member Nuccio Altieri as head of the National Anti-Corruption Authority, after Thursday's appointment and pressure from the opposition for an about-face. It will therefore be up to Matteo Salvini to remedy the flop (as Altieri is still considered too close to the party) by indicating another name to tomorrow's Council of Ministers. He himself anticipated it. And in the evening Antonio Tajani confirms, even if he will be in Paris for the meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers.
They are tight-lipped about the alternative, also because the dossier - they assure at the League headquarters - is jealously in the hands of the secretary and deputy prime minister. It is no mystery that the nomination is close to the heart of his party, which is often distant from the Authority on the procurement code and the bridge over the Strait. The new name will also have to pass unscathed from the internal feuds in the Northern League that pollute the climate. Especially in the north, where today the secretary of Varese, Andrea Cassani, was reconfirmed and voted for Massimo Garavaglia, Salvini's challenger at the last congress. A certain haste weighs on Anac: the mandate of the current president Giuseppe Busia, in office since 2020, has expired and cannot be renewed. The only certainty is that no errors or slips of political incompatibility are now allowed on the successor. And the diktat seems to come directly from the top levels of the government, it circulates among the majority.
The government allies take it for granted not only by withdrawing from the game, but by observing that the Northern League will not be able to force their hand too much. By law, the president is proposed by the Minister of Public Administration in agreement with the Keeper of the Seals and the Interior Ministry, and must have the consent of the opposition. In fact, the favorable opinion of the competent parliamentary commissions is needed, with a quorum of 2/3 of the members and expressed quickly (probably next week, if the appointment were tomorrow).
The CV of the candidate who, by law, should be far from politics in the strict sense will therefore count. Legislative decree 150 of 2009 is clear: "The president and the members of the Authority cannot be chosen from among people who hold elective public positions or positions in parties or trade unions or who have held positions and positions in the previous three years".
And Libera reminds us that it is not "a simple party box to fill". Strengthened by the data - 38 corruption investigations in the first six months of 2026 and 14 politicians investigated out of a total of 386 - Don Ciotti's association warns: "It is a crucial choice on an institutional figure who will have the task of supervising contracts, conflicts of interest and the transparency of public choices".
Hence the search for alternatives to Altieri, leaked as rumors in the press. In pole position would be Bernadette Veca who today heads the Department for the planning and coordination of economic policy which reports to the Presidency of the Council. Behind her she has managerial positions in Salvini's ministry (also as general director for regulation and public contracts).
In short, a high profile, but with less jurisprudential skills, someone observes. Other options could be Maria Teresa D'Urso, director of MIT; the former senator Francesco Urraro, former M5s and then in the Northern League who is a lay member of the Presidency Council of Administrative Justice or Claudia Eccher, who is among the lay people of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and former lawyer of Salvini. At the last minute, the name of Paolo Grasso is mentioned, head of the cabinet of the Porta Pia ministry but of whom the minister probably would not want to be deprived in such a delicate moment.
