House elects FdI, AVS candidates to Rai board

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - 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.
    (ANSA).