There is a risk of Italy’s mafias “conditioning” the general election in March, Italy’s Interior Minister Marco Minniti warned.Italians go to the polls on March 4 and Minniti said there was “too much silence” on the “concrete” risk of the mafias posing a threat to democracy and “the freedom to vote,” Italian news agency ANSA reported.”We’re in the swing of the electoral competition and … There is a concrete risk of the mafias conditioning electors’ free vote,” Minniti said on Wednesday as he presented an annual report to the Anti-Mafia commission in Rome.
Source: Italian election could see mafia interference – CNBC
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