“Rai denies the censorship. Here is the call“. Fedez, protagonist at the May 1st concert with a monologue on the Zan bill, publishes on Twitter the recording of the phone call with Rai 24 hours before the event. The artist, before today’s performance, referred to pressure that he would have received to sweeten the text of the speech, in which he attacked the League and in particular Senator Ostellari, rapporteur of the Zan Ddl. “I am happy to be on the 1st May stage, I did not expect a denial from Rai compared to what happened yesterday. I was called, they said words like ‘you have to adapt to a system’ or ‘you can’t say the names you make’. I wanted to avoid it, but the moment I call myself a liar, I find myself forced to publish the phone call, one of the most unpleasant of my life “, says Fedez on Instagram.
RAI – The rapper’s posts come after the note released by Rai. “Rai3 and Rai have always been open to debate and confrontation of opinions, respecting any political and cultural position. It is highly incorrect and it is unfounded to argue that Rai requested the artists’ texts in advance intervened at the traditional May Day concert, for the simple reason that it is fake, this is something that never happened. Neither Rai nor the management of Rai3 have ever operated forms of preventive censorship against any artist of the concert: Rai broadcasts an editorial product created by a production company in collaboration with CGIL, CISL and UIL, which has in charge of the realization and organization of the concert, as well as of relations with the artists. This includes the collection of texts, as usual “, the Rai note.
“The Labor Day, as the secretaries of the CGIL, CISL and UIL recalled in their speeches, is precisely a party, that is to say the celebration of the achievements of the workers and their rights, sanctioned by the Constitution and the Statute, of which the trade unions become custodians and champions. And it is precisely to those conquests and those rights, now threatened by a world pandemic that erodes the occupation, which this May Day is dedicated to “, concludes the note.