Timostene criticized the government's decision to appoint Nuccio Altieri as the president of ANAC and argued that the appointment could be challenged in court. He recalled that, according to ANAC, 95% of public procurement was now conducted through direct assignments and attributed to a reform of the procurement code enacted by Matteo Salvini in 2023 the ability to award contracts up to 150,000 euros without a tender, and, beyond that threshold and up to more than five million, to invite selected companies without a public notice. In the post, Timostene described ANAC as the authority that oversees contracts and claimed that its independence was essential. He noted that the agency had been led by magistrate Raffaele Cantone and legal expert Giuseppe Busia, to whom he attributed criticism of the procurement code, the procedures for the Bridge over the Strait, and the extensions of highway concessions. Timostene referred to Altieri as a former deputy and party leader in the League close to Salvini, who had already been appointed to the presidency of Invimit and on the board of Leonardo. He stated that the law prohibited appointing someone who had held party positions in the three preceding years to lead ANAC, and that Altieri had only recently been responsible for Defense within the League. He then accused Salvini of weakening both procurement rules and the body responsible for enforcing them. The appointment, he clarified, was not yet definitive: it had to go through parliamentary committees, where two-thirds of the votes were needed, and then to the signature of the President of the Republic. Timostene wrote that there was still time to stop it. #ANAC #Corruzione #Appalti_pubblici (translated)
