5-Star Movement (M5S) premier
candidate Luigi Di Maio said 10,000 people have applied to run
in the anti-establishment movement's process to select its
parliamentary candidates for the March 4 general election.
He also dismissed reports that the movement's IT system
crashed, causing chaos for budding MPs.
"It's not true," Di Maio told Radio 24.
"Every time we hold parliamentarian primaries I read in the
newspapers of chaos, but I never read about the membership cards
bought by the (traditional) parties.
"We are conducting a selection process of iron.
"There were people who did not have the requisites and we
discarded them because we are not a shuttle bus to go to
parliament".
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