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LUC TRIANGLE has been appointed acting general secretary of the International Trades Union Congress (ITUC), after predecessor Luca Visentini was sacked for taking money from suspects in the European Parliament’s Qatargate sleaze scandal.
Mr Triangle leads the IndustriALL global union federation and has worked in the labour movement since the early 1980s, starting out in the youth section of Belgium’s ACV-CSC federation. He has contributed articles to the Morning Star.
His main task will be to organise the extraordinary world congress of the ITUC planned for this autumn, to elect a new general secretary and look at governance and financial conduct reforms to prevent scandals like that which sank Mr Visentini’s leadership.
External auditors found problems with the ITUC’s financial compliance, while Mr Visentini’s receipt of donations for his election campaign expenses from an NGO linked to disgraced Italian ex-MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri have raised fears that the union body could be exposed to lobbying by corporate or state interests.
