The Lower House Constitutional
affairs committee on Wednesday approved a resolution urging the
government to take all steps to welcome a mission by the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to
monitor the next general election.
The monitoring, anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) MP
and OSCE delegate Emanuele Scagliusi said, will consist of four
levels and will include the presence of observers at voting
stations, if the OSCE deems that necessary.
M5S leader Luigi Di Maio said recently that he has reason to
believe that OSCE will monitor the general election Italy is due
to hold early next year.
The M5S met OSCE delegates in Rome Sunday.
"Everything makes me think that it is intent on monitoring
our elections, as it did in 2006", he said.
The blog of M5S founder Beppe Grillo recently published a
letter Di Maio sent to the OSCE asking it to monitor voting
operations and the election campaign with a "focus on the
media situation and the time they devote to the various
political parties".
The M5S made an unsuccessful bid to have the OSCE monitor the
recent regional election in Sicily, in which it came second
behind a centre-right coalition, arguing there was a danger of
vote buying.
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