The Codacons at the forefront with a new initiative: the appeal was accepted and the 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“.
The request of the two associations
As he points out RepublicThe Codacons refers to the decision of the Commission for access to administrative documents of the Presidency of the Council which accepted the appeal presented by the consumer association. The Consumers Association underlined: “In the aftermath of the last episode of the Festival, characterized by some disservices and technical problems that had affected the televoting system, Codacons together with Assourt had presented a formal request for access to Rai requesting all the data on the votes expressed 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 at home and not collected by the system due to technical disruptions“. But the Rai in the first instance he refused to provide the requested information considering “data not of public interest”.
The commission’s decision
The two associations therefore presented an appeal to the Commission for access, which was accepted yesterday. As reported byAdnkronosthe organ of the Presidency of the Council in its decision writes: “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“. Carlo Rienzipresident of Codaconswas keen to underline that “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. 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”.
