Rai oversight panel slams French election non-coverage (4)

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 9 - The parliamentary oversight commission on Rai on Tuesday slammed the state broadcaster's failure to properly cover the French election results on Sunday night.
    Panel chair Barbara Floridia said it was "wholly inconceivable" that Rai news programmes had ignored the shock leftwing victory in their lead items.
    She said she had requested an "urgent and detailed" report on the "hole" in Rai's coverage from CEO Roberto Sergio.
    Floridia belongs to the leftist populist opposition 5-Star Movement.
    Italy's opposition parties have alleged a government takeover of Rai while the broadcaster's internal union has said it has become the government's mouthpiece.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni has said the government is "duly rebalancing" the broadcaster after decades of alleged liberal hegemony.
    The centre-left Democratic Party asked Rai executives to comment on a Facebook post by Paolo Sylos Labini, whose show 'Identitarian Cities' led the Rai all-news show Sunday night, in which the conservative actor and director cited director Sergio Leone's response to "radical chic" calls for him to be more politically engaged by showing a scene from Duck! You Sucker (1971) in which Rod Steiger's character urinates on an anti-hill, said to represent the Left. (ANSA).