Meloni’s phone calls to Rai, exposed to the EU Commission for interference

Rome. Can a Prime Minister call two Rai executives, considered friends, and study with them the best strategy to dismantle the accusation of censorship that arose after the cancellation of Antonio Scurati’s monologue on Raitre, and at the same time mock the writer for the compensation agreed? After the article published by La Stampa, which revealed the prime minister’s calls to the director general Giampaolo Rossi and to the director of Insights Paolo Corsini to find a justification for what happened, the leader of Green Europe Angelo Bonelli, who leads the Alliance with Nicola Fratoianni The Greens and the Left, presented a complaint about Rai to the European Commission: «It is a clear violation of the Media Freedom Act of 13 March. There is continuous government interference aimed at censorship and control of the media.” The Scurati case proves, according to Bonelli, «that an occupation of all information spaces by the Meloni government is underway».

Meloni’s phone calls are only the latest episode of Meloni’s grip on Viale Mazzini: «They confirm – attacks Fratoianni – the total subjugation of the public service radio and TV to the right in government». With an aggravating circumstance, according to the leader of the left, referring to the post with which Meloni launches his insinuations – three times in a few lines – on the money negotiated by Scurati with Rai: «That they want to pass off free intellectuals as of the greedy. An unbearable thing.”

The list grows longer day by day. First it was the turn of Roberto Saviano, whose show, Insider, ended up out of the schedule after the lawsuit brought by Meloni against the writer. Then the revelations about the probable sale of Agi, the second press agency in the country, to Antonio Angelucci, private healthcare entrepreneur, deputy of the League and publisher of three right-wing pro-Melonian newspapers, including Libero, directed by the prime minister’s former spokesperson Mario Sechi. And again: the attempted blitz in the Supervisory Commission where Fratelli d’Italia tried to modify the AgCom regulation to free the members of the government from the rules of equal conditions. Finally, the case of telephone calls. «With the phone calls between Palazzo Chigi and some Rai executives, as reported by La Stampa, to find a plausible and “popular” justification for the censorship of the writer Scurati, the story takes on even more disturbing contours», attacks the leader of left Nicola Fratoianni.

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«The newspaper tells how the decision to cancel the monologue and the economic excuse were orchestrated with the government’s political direction – continues Bonelli -. Moreover, the director of insights Corsini, at the party of Giorgia Meloni’s party, declared himself a faithful supporter of Fratelli d’Italia”. The complaint to the European Commission is an initiative that was born on the basis of the new regulation that Europe has adopted, after the liberticidal tendencies of Viktor Orban in Hungary, against the control of the media by governments, against editorial concentrations , and against the interference of political parties. In fact, a device that could cripple the Italian system.