Rai, the controversy over the Sanremo festival in the board of directors. The 5S: “Setting up the Supervision”. Renzi: “Enough of clashes, but abolish the license fee”

The curtain has fallen on the Ariston stage, but not on the controversy. Tomorrow, 15 February, the board of directors of Rai will examine, among the various items on the agenda, also what happened at the last Sanremo festival. We will not only talk about the excellent ratings and advertising revenues of the five evenings hosted by Amadeus And Gianni Morandi, but also and above all of the controversies sparked by Fedez And Rosa Chemicalas well as the message from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky read on the last evening of the festival.

Among the other topics on the agenda, there is also the new director’s editorial plan for Tg2 Nicholas Rao, the hearing of the CEO of Rai advertising and the update on the industrial plan and the service contract. Officially, however, there will be no talk of the change of Rai top management on which the Meloni government is pressing and which could lead to the removal of the CEO Carlo Fuortes or to his “support” until the end of his mandate in 2024.

“The large numbers of Sanremo that produce dutiful and heartfelt thanks to all the workers involved cannot hide the editorial blunders that have damaged the image of Rai, also at an international level, which has therefore not been able to fully enjoy the undoubted success”. attacks councilor Rai Riccardo Lagana. “Editorial autonomy – he continues – must be exercised within the editorial line of which Rai is the custodian and responsible solely and exclusively as a public service concessionaire by law. It must never be outsourced. There is a need for company management capable of avoiding provide alibis to those who only want to steal resources, the festival, the regional offices, the production centers to finally get to the concession of public service. We need to clarify this and much more”.

He intervenes on the controversies that have cast shadow on the Ariston stage Matthew Renzi. “I suggest – he writes on his Enews – a moratorium on the controversies related to Sanremo. Now that we have discussed everything, arguing about everything, arguing about everything, we can say bravo to Amadeus for record plays, bravo to Marco Mengoni for the beautiful song and get back to dealing with issues such as the future of Europe, the crisis of global democracy, the economic recovery? Less interesting topics than Fedez, for some, but topics that should challenge politics to a more serious debate than that of the last ten days”.

For the Movimento 5 Stelle, however, after what happened at the Festival “we need to proceed quickly with the establishment of the Supervisory Commission”. And the grill Enrico Cappelletti in the Chamber he denounced a “shameful target shooting by representatives of the majority and the government both against those who performed at the Ariston and, then, against the management of Rai, guilty of not having censured”.

And while Renzi proposes the abolition of the Rai license fee (a hypothesis also supported by Salvini), the former president of Montecitorio Robert Fig he talks about the possible change of top management of the company and underlines: “I’m reading statements from government and majority representatives who are bordering on shame. Not only do they say they want to occupy Rai, but they also want to decide which cultural line the company, this thing is impossible: the government must stay in its place”. For Fico “culture needs to change and a law is needed, like the one I presented as chairman of the supervisory commission and which the parliamentary group of the 5 Star Movement can now re-present. The reform law wanted by Renzi has changed absolutely nothing, on the contrary it has worsened the situation”.