RAI State broadcaster's whopping and
controversial pay rise for presenter Fabio Fazio should be
reviewed by new Director-General Mario Orfeo, board member Carlo
Freccero said Tuesday.
"I ask you MPs to intercede with the DG so that this contract
can be called into question," Freccero told the parliamentary
RAI oversight commission.
The leftwing board member said he was afraid that Fazio's
audience would be "destroyed" by the controversy.
A rightwing board member, Arturo Diaconale, said "we were
forced to sign the Fazio contract, we were told if we didn't he
would sign with a rival broadcaster (La7).
"We wren't forced with a gun to the head but by the civil
code. If we hadn't signed it we could have been liable for
damages to the company".
Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party and
Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) said
Diaconale's revelation made Fazio's salary hike all the more
"unacceptable".
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