The Lower House on Thursday elected a
candidate close to Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers
of Italy (FdI) party and a TV journalist close to the leftwing
opposition Green-Left Alliance (AVS) to the board of directors
of state broadcaster Rai.
The FdI candidate was Federica Frangi and the Rai journalist
close to AVS was Roberto Natale.
The centre left was split on the vote with the centre-left
Democratic Party and the centrist Azione and Italia Viva parties
boycotting the vote for Natale, who was voted by the leftist
populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the AVS.
AVS leader Angelo Bonelli said this showed that the "broad field
does not exist," referring to the sometime alliance of leftwing
and centrist parties.
Rai parliamentary oversight panel chair Barbara Floridia
commended the M5S and AVS for "preventing there being a board of
directors deprived of the guard of the opposition forces and the
majority naming all the directors, this ensuring a fundamental
balance for the pluralism of information and the respect of the
various sensibilities in the country."
The Senate will vote its two Rai directors later Thursday.
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