Italian ambassador reveals how EU influenced Italian election

Italian ambassador Raffaele Trombetta put forward a theory on why the European Union could be behind the looming bombshell election result after more than 50 percent of Italians appeared to vote for anti-EU parties.

Raffaele Trombetta said the success of Eurosceptic parties in the Italian election is due to the dissatisfaction of the public opinion towards the mainstream parties.

But he warned migration was a "big issue" for Italy and the country had called on Brussels over the past two years to help with the issue.

Mr Trombetta said: "We have been trying to say for at least for the last two years even more to convince Brussels and above all the other European member states how important or crucial the migration issue was for the Italian people and this has been reflected in the result of the elections.

"We didn't feel that from some member states there was the support that Italy needed above all because this is a European issue. It's not an Italian issue."