Salvini says not interested in Zelensky's Sanremo speech

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 26 - League leader, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday he was not that interested in hearing what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has to say at the upcoming Sanremo Song Festival, stressing that he would only be tuning in to listen to the music.
    Zelensky has been invited to address the fest in a video message on its last night and is expected to thank Italy for its unwavering support against the Russian invasion.
    Salvini said "let's hope Sanremo remains the festival of Italian song and (doesn't become) something else".
    He said "they (the organizers) will have made their assessments, what I hope is that the war ends as soon as possible and that the stage of the City of the Flowers (Sanremo) remains reserved for music.
    "If I have time I'll watch the festival to listen to the songs and not to listen to anything else".
    He said that the fest coincides with the last week of campaigning for regional elections in Lombardy, Lazio and elsewhere and reiterated "if I have time to watch Rai Uno it will be to listen to songs and not anything else". (ANSA).