Sanremo Mayor Alessandro Mager said
Friday he would uphold Thursday's sentence by the Regional
Administrative Court (TAR) of Liguria ordering the council to
issue a tender that might stop Rai state broadcaster from
hosting the Sanremo Song Festival in the Ligurian seaside town
from 2026 onwards.
"We will do everything we can to uphold the TAR's sentence,"
said Mager.
The Sanremo fest, the high point of Italy's TV calendar, has
been broadcast by Rai since it began in 1951 ans most Italians
deem it unthinkable that the state broadcaster should be
stripped of it.
On Thursday the TAR declared the direct assignment to Rai by the
Municipality of Sanremo of the organization of the Sanremo
Festival for the years 2024/2025 to be illegitimate.
The judges decided that the Municipality of Sanremo, without
affecting the next edition next February, will have to announce
the assignment of the festival with a tender open to operators
in the sector thenceforth.
The appeal was filed by JE, a company that produces and creates
musical events and works. Rai's response was "the organization
of the festival remains our property. There is no risk that it
could be entrusted to third parties".
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