This week's Sanremo Song Festival
would welcome protesting farmers if they drive their tractors to
the Ligurian resort's annual TV jamboree as they have vowed,
host and organiser Amadeus told a press conference Monday.
Italian farmers, like their European counterparts, have taken
their tractors to roads across the country protesting national
and EU policies including a one-year fallow order to mitigate
climate change as well as plunging prices for their products and
rising costs of fuel and raw materials.
"If they come I'll let them come on stage," said Amadeus in the
pre-festival press conference.
"I find the protest of the tractors absolutely right,
sacrosanct, for the right to work and to protect their jobs.
"But no one has contacted me and I have not contacted anyone".
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