“It’s a must to work to take it off.” Salvini’s plan on the Rai license fee

Il San Remo festival 2023 has been archived, not without the usual political use of the same and the consequent controversies. Nothing new under the sun on the Riviera, one could say now that it’s all over and that only balance sheets remain to be made. And yet, edition number 73 left a few more aftermaths, and this is evident, because a sort of limit has been exceeded in the political use of public television, exaggerating in that sneaky propaganda made through the Sanremo vaudeville. In front of what we have seen, in front of a Festival that has certainly not been for everyone, as Amadeus said in a somewhat unrealistic way defending himself from the controversies, it is necessary to stop and make some reflections. The first to propose one is the minister Matthew Salvini.

The deputy premier, a guest of Telelombardia in the aftermath of the regional vote, which confirmed the hegemony of the centre-right in Lombardy and handed Lazio over to the government coalition, proposed a reform in the structure and concept of the television license, but also a reflection on costs. “There will be a reflection on the license fee, on what Rai costs, on certain super salaries and on the external agents“, explained Salvini, focusing on an internal organization of public TV that has been creating discontent for some time. The secretary of the League is convinced that “must remove the fee Rai from the bill and work to reduce it, lower it or, as in other European countries, to eliminate it“.

A reform that has been talked about for a long time that so far has not been able to materialize but in which Salvini seems to believe a lot. The deputy premier’s gaze goes beyond national borders and looks to other countries to try to improve the Italian public television system by making it more efficient. A feat that few have managed so far, given the results and given how Rai is still administered, which however now the leader of the League seems willing to carry through. “The role of the public service“said the minister and to do so it is important to observe how it works “in other European countries“.

In his speech to Telelombardia, the Deputy Prime Minister took up and shared what the Minister of Economy and Finance said about the license fee, Giancarlo Giorgettiduring the closing event of the Lazio electoral campaign: “It will have to come out of the bill and for next year it will be necessary to think of another instrument“.