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I suspect this is less true in the US, where the parties hold primaries which can be competitive if a non-establishment candidate bothers to organize, that's how the Tea Party got many of its candidates on the Republican ticket. On the other hand, in your country it appears to be a lot easier for a new party to become electorally viable.
Yes, in many European countries new parties regularly appear and get their deputies elected to the parliaments (and often they are ideologically similar to the Italian example you have linked to). To me it appears that a single U.S. party corresponds to a group of several related European parties.
Of course, in any system a non-establishment candidate can get elected if he bothers to organise and is able to do it. It still doesn't imply that the voters play significant role in the selection process, it may still be the case that the most important selection happens in the back rooms before the official voting.