Rai, the Report team: "We never passed a vote of no confidence in Ranucci nor asked for his removal"

"None of us has ever passed a vote of no confidence in Sigfrido, nor has anyone ever asked for his removal." So said the Report team in a statement the day after the labor court's decision, which rejected Sigfrido Ranucci's request to be reinstated as head of the program. "With the ruling of the Rome Court, a chapter that has been painful for all of us comes to a close. In recent months — the statement specifies — a narrative has been fueled of a newsroom split, divided between traitors and collaborators. That is not the case." The Report team recounts what happened, stressing that they never passed a vote of no confidence in Ranucci: "Already in June, before the Lavitola scandal, the group of correspondents had proposed adding two co-authors alongside Sigfrido in managing the program. The proposal, however, was not followed up. Then in July the entire team put forward a new proposal that called for two co-authors at his side and a coordination of the newsroom and the correspondents. We discussed it and voted on it in an assembly, in broad daylight, almost unanimously. The goal was one only: not to leave him alone in the most difficult moment and to put the team on the front line, to protect the program. That proposal was not accepted, and perhaps it was not understood. But none of us has ever passed a vote of no confidence in Sigfrido, nor has anyone ever asked for his removal." "The decisions about who leads the program — the statement concludes — were made by the company, and we fought so that the autonomy and independence of our work would not be threatened. Report takes no orders from politics, neither from those who called for changing it nor from those who defend it. Report is not influenced by powers more or less strong, nor by interest groups. It has always been a collective endeavor and it will continue to be so. We will respond to the controversies as we always have: with our investigations."