«Fiorello is right, who proves to be much more serious and far-sighted than those who manage RAI: the Teatro delle Vittorie cannot be abandoned. I formally ask all parliamentary groups to immediately overcome the stalemate in the Supervisory Commission and to allow the urgent convening of Rai’s top management for a hearing on the real estate plan”. This was stated by the president of the Supervisory Commission, Barbara Floridia.
«There is not only the problem of the Teatro delle Vittorie, I am also thinking of what is happening in Venice, Florence and Milan – the note continues -. As regards the sale of the Teatro delle Vittorie, my opposition is clear. It’s not about square meters, systems or “obsolescence”. It’s about history, about collective memory, about the identity of the public service.” «A fundamental part of Italian entertainment, of popular culture, of the very idea of public television passed through that theater – he further underlines -. Rai’s response is exactly what is not needed: a bureaucratic language, cold, self-referential, incapable of grasping the symbolic value of places. Talking about costs, condominium restrictions and waterproofing to justify a sale like this is the sign of someone who has lost the sense of their own history. If the public service does not know how to defend its symbols, it is up to civil society, the artistic community and politics itself to do so. I hope that the parties are able to recognize the importance of this matter and allow the RAI supervisory authorities to deal with it, otherwise it would be yet another very serious disruption for which anyone who were to oppose would take full responsibility.”