Sanremo 2023, Zelensky will not send a video: Amadeus will read his text

And at the end Zelensky there will be, but not with a video. After the controversy, a San Remo the Ukrainian president will send a text that will be read by Amadeus. To put an end to the question of the intervention at the center of harsh criticism by politicians such as Matteo Salvini and Giuseppe Conte, I am the director of Rai prime time entertainment Stefano Coletta and the artistic director during the first press conference. «We are in contact with Ambassador Melnyk and we have come to the definition of the speech of the Ukrainian president yesterday: it will not send a video, but a text».

On the question of preventive control of Rai on Zelensky’s words, Coletta liquidates the accusations of censorship by public television as «close to the boutade». «It is a control relating to the airing of any TV program, it consists in viewing what is on the air before it is aired. I smile at the idea that a Rai director can censor a president ».

Will it be a message of peace? Sui contents nobody says anything: «We’ll be more punctual in the next few days. We don’t know about it right now.”

Amadeus explains: “Through the ambassador we will receive a letter that I will read exactly as it arrives”.

Coletta also recounts how the choice was made to read a written intervention and to reject the idea of ​​the video: «From the moment in which the president’s interest in speaking at the Festival emerged in the interview between Vespa and Zelensky, a daily interview with the ambassador. On the afternoon of February 2, the ambassador proposed that the president would have preferred to send a text that would be read by Amadeus instead of a video”. End of controversy?