Fantinati: Abolition of free Sundays? Fake news. But that they will be abolished the minister said so

Yesterday Il Fatto Quotidiano hosted an article signed by Mattia Fantinati (Movimento 5 Stelle), undersecretary for Public Administration, who branded the news of theabolition of free Sundays as “fake news.” “The proposal of our minister Alberto Bonisoli,” Fantinati wrote, “has raised a lot of controversy.” It is, the undersecretary continued, “fake news, since the minister is not talking about abolishing free Sundays, but wants directors to decide when to promote free admission days. On the contrary, the idea of the government I am part of is to increase free days, but with the aim of supporting a better tourist offer.” Again, later in his piece, Fantinati reiterates that “Minister Bonisoli does not want to abolish free Sundays, but to leave the directors free to decide when to promote free days in museums.”

In fact, this is not a fake news (a term, this one, now used too lightly, and also often used to discredit interpretations of ambiguous phrases): it is in fact the minister himself, Alberto Bonisoli, who, in a note published on the website of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, stated that free Sundays will be abolished. “I listened to the directors express themselves regarding free Sundays,” Bonisoli said, “recording a unanimous opinion on the need to overcome them. This is why we are moving toward the decision to go beyond free Sundays, which will in fact be abolished.” The minister’s statements thus seem clear, we now await developments, also in light of the statements of Undersecretary Vacca, who for the fall has promised new formulas to increase free days.

Photo: the Colosseum. Ph. Credit Chiara Laquintana

Fantinati: Abolition of free Sundays? Fake news. But that they will be abolished the minister said so

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