While Carlo Conti announces the news of the next festivalthe controversy over the edition of Sanremo that took place last February still hasn’t subsided.
Once again it is the Codacons to become the protagonist of a new initiative: “Rai will have to provide Codacons and the Association of Radio and Television Services Users with all the data on televoting relating to the 2024 Sanremo Festival, among those that have not already been published online by the network”. Codacons refers to the Commission’s decision for access to the administrative documents of the Presidency of the Council which accepted the appeal presented by the consumer association.
“In the aftermath of the last episode of the Festival, characterized by some disruptions and technical problems that had affected the televoting system, Codacons together with Assourt had presented a formal request for access to Rai – recalls the Consumers’ Association – requesting all the data on the votes cast by the individual members of the press room and radio juries; valid votes collected through televoting; those invalidated and the related reasons; the data regarding any votes cast by the public from home and not collected by the system due to technical disruptions”.
Rai, however, initially refused to provide the requested information considering the data not to be of public interest.
The two associations therefore presented an appeal to the Access Commission, an appeal today accepted. As Adnkronos reports, the body of the Presidency of the Council writes in its decision: “The Commission observes that, as usual, the indication of the link for consultation of the documents published on the institutional website of the administration is equivalent to access. If there is documentation among that request that has not been published, Rai will have to allow access since the request of today’s appellants falls within the scope of the statutory purposes of the associations themselves, in relation to the interests of the consumers that they represent”.
“Our request was not aimed at knowing the percentages of votes obtained by the artists competing in Sanremo 2024 through the various juries, because these data are already public and accessible to all – states the president of Codacons Carlo Rienzi -. What we want to know, and what Rai will now have to tell us, is how many votes were invalidated or not collected due to the technical problems recorded during the final evening of the Festival“.
