Five Star Movement

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Five Star Movement
Movimento 5 Stelle
Guarantor Beppe Grillo[1][2]
Leader Luigi Di Maio[3]
Founders Beppe Grillo
Gianroberto Casaleggio
Founded 4 October 2009
Headquarters Via Nomentana 257, Rome, Italy
Newspaper ilblogdellestelle.it
Membership (2016) 135,023[4]
Ideology Populism
Anti-establishment
Direct democracy
E-democracy
Environmentalism
Euroscepticism
Degrowth
Political position Big tent
National affiliation None
European affiliation None
International affiliation None
European Parliament group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
Colours      Yellow      White
Chamber of Deputies
222 / 630
Senate
109 / 315
European Parliament
14 / 73
Regional Government
0 / 20
Website
www.movimento5stelle.it

The Five Star Movement (Italian: Movimento 5 Stelle [moviˈmento ˈtʃiŋkwe ˈstelle], M5S) is a populist political party in Italy.

The M5S was started by Beppe Grillo, a popular comedian and blogger, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist, on 4 October 2009.[5] After Casaleggio's death in April 2016, Grillo appointed a Directorate composed of five leading MPs (Alessandro Di Battista, Luigi Di Maio, Roberto Fico, Carla Ruocco, Carlo Sibilia),[6] which lasted until the following October, when Grillo dissolved it and proclaimed himself "political head".[7] Formally speaking, Grillo is also president of the association named "Five Star Movement", with his nephew Enrico Grillo vice president and his accountant Enrico Maria Nadasi secretary.[1] Davide Casaleggio, Gianroberto's son, has an increasingly important, albeit unofficial role.[8][9][10]

On 21–22 September 2017 the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Luigi Di Maio was elected in an on-line primary election, with 82% of votes, candidate to the premiership and "political head" of the movement, replacing Grillo as leader of the M5S, but not as movement's "guarantor";[11][12] in January 2018, Grillo separated his own blog from the movement; his blog was used in the previous years as an online newspaper of the M5S and the main propaganda tool.[13] This event was seen by many as the proof that Grillo was slowly leaving politics.[14]

The M5S is variously considered populist,[15][16] anti-establishment,[16][17] environmentalist,[18] alter-globalist[19] and Eurosceptic.[20] Grillo himself provocatively once referred to it as "populist",[21] its members stress that the M5S is not a party but a "movement" and it may not be included in the traditional left–right paradigm. The "five stars" are a reference to five key issues for the party: public water, sustainable transport, sustainable development, right to Internet access, and environmentalism. The party also advocates e-democracy, direct democracy,[22] the principle of "zero-cost politics",[23] degrowth,[24] and nonviolence.[25] In foreign policy, the M5S has criticized military interventions of the West in the Greater Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq,[26] Libya) as well as any notion of American intervention in Syria.[27]

At the 2013 general election the M5S was the most voted for party (excluding Italians abroad) for the Chamber of Deputies.[28] However, it obtained only 109 deputies out of 630, due to the fact that it refused to join a coalition. If the party had considered as a coalition, it would have come in third.[29]

In the European Parliament the M5S has been part of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group, along with the UK Independence Party and minor right-wing parties, since the 2014 European Parliament election. In January 2017 M5S members voted in favor of Grillo's proposal to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group, but the party was eventually refused[30] and, as a result, it has continued to be part of the EFDD group.

Two party members, Virginia Raggi[31] and Chiara Appendino, were elected mayors of Rome and Turin, respectively, in 2016.

History[edit]

Meet-ups[edit]

On 16 July 2005 Beppe Grillo offered supporters of the proposals submitted to his blog to adopt social networks, such as Meetup, to communicate and coordinate local meetings, this is how the first 40 "Friends of Beppe Grillo" meetups started, with the initial aim, according to the same Grillo, to "have fun, get together and share ideas and proposals for a better world, starting from one's own city. And discuss and develop, if you believe, my posts".[32] Within the meetup one creates thematic working groups on topics including "technology and innovation", "press-communication", "ethical consumerism", "currency study", "no incinerators",[33][34] it is from these experiences that Grillo was asked to stand for the primaries for the selection of the Prime Ministerial candidate of the centre-left coalition The Union, that were scheduled for October 2005.[35]

On three occasions -17 December in Turin, 26 March in Piacenza and 16 to 18 June in Sorrento- the representatives of the "Friends of Beppe Grillo" meetup held national meetings in the presence of Grillo. In these circumstances, proposals mostly regarding environmental issues were discussed, such as the replacement of polluting incinerators with systems applying mechanical-biological waste treatment.[36]

During the fourth national meeting held in Genoa on 3 February 2007, Beppe Grillo announced his desire to provide local Meetup activists an autonomous space within the shows of his tour.

On 14 July 2007, the representatives of some civic lists participating in local elections the previous spring met in Parma to establish a national coordination between "associations, movements, organizations and civic lists practicing, promoting and experimenting direct and participatory democracy", and share a document of intent that, amongst its main objectives, included the establishment of proposal and repeal referendums, the direct election of the Ombudsman, the institution of participatory budgeting, a "bound" mandate for public administrators and open primaries.

V-Days[edit]

V-Day in Bologna, in 2007.

On 14 June 2007 Beppe Grillo launched the idea of Vaffanculo Day (Fuck-off Day), or simply V-Day, a day of public mobilisation for the collection of signatures required to submit a law of popular initiative that seeks to introduce preferences in the current electoral law and to prevent the nomination as Parliamentary candidates of recipients of criminal convictions or of those who have already completed two terms in office.[37] The meeting was held in Bologna.

The choice of the name of the event, V-Day, had a fourfold reference: the first to the Normandy landings of the Allies in Normandy during World War II, to symbolise how Italian citizens would "invade" bad policy; the second to the motion picture "V for Vendetta" (whose symbol is also referred to in the logo of the movement) which the movement refers to often with its principles of political renewal; the third to the interjection "Fuck you" given to bad policy. The fourth is a reference to the number five as a Roman numeral.

V-Day, which continued the "Clean Parliament" initiative promoted by Beppe Grillo since 2006, took place in many Italian cities the following 8 September, the date chosen to evoke the state of confusion besetting the state, as at 8 September 1943 Badoglio Proclamation, on that day 336,000 signatures were collected, far exceeding the 50,000 required for the filing of a law of popular initiative. For the occasion, Michele Serra coined the term "grillismo".[38]

V2-Day was organised for 25 April 2008, a second day of action aimed at collecting signatures for three referendums, on 29 and 30 September 2007 in Lucca, several members of the meetups and local civic lists, in the initial wake of the discussions started on the net and in the wake of the previous meeting of Perugia, define the policies for the establishment of civic lists. On 10 October 2007 Grillo gives guidance on how to create the civic lists.[39]

Five Star Civic Lists[edit]

On 3 December 2008, Grillo presented the symbol of the Five Star Civic Lists for the local elections of 2009. Logo in the "V" of "citizenship" is a reference to V-Day[40] In Bologna, on 17 February 2009, a gathering of civic lists discussed the future of the movement and the coming elections; in particular, Sonia Alfano consulted with the activist base of the movement about her possible candidacy for the European Parliament as an independent candidate with the Italy of Values list.

On 8 March 2009, the first national meeting of the Five Star Civic Lists was held in Florence. Here Beppe Grillo had the Charter of Florence, bone joint 12-point program of the various local civic lists in the afternoon, about twenty local groups present their ideas and experiences; in April Grillo announced a letter of Nobel Prize winner in economics Joseph Stiglitz in which he declares to look carefully at the experience of local civic lists promoted through the blog.[41]

On 29 March 2009, Grillo announced that in the upcoming European elections he would support Luigi de Magistris and Sonia Alfano, figures close to the movement, as independent candidates in the lists of Italy of Values, together with the journalist Carlo Vulpio, also close to the movement[42] On 11 June, De Magistris and Alfano, candidates in all five constituencies, were elected to the European Parliament, resulting in the first and second preferences (of 419 000 and 143 000); in the same election, as stated by Beppe Grillo, 23 councilors were elected from the Five Star Civic Lists, especially in the municipalities of Emilia-Romagna in central Italy.[43]

On 9 September 2009, the launch of the "National Five Star Movement", inspired by the ideologies of the Charter of Florence', was announced.[44]

Along with Gianroberto Casaleggio at the Emerald Theatre in Milan on 4 October 2009, Beppe Grillo declared the birth of the Five Star Movement and presented a programme.[45]

2010–2012 regional and local elections[edit]

During the 2010 regional elections the M5S obtained notable results in the five regions where it ran a candidate for President: Giovanni Favia gained 7.0% of the vote in Emilia-Romagna (6.0% for the list, 2 regional councillors elected), Davide Bono 4.1% in Piedmont (3.7%, 2 councillors), David Borrelli 3.2% in Veneto (2.6%, no councillors), Vito Crimi 3.0% in Lombardy (2.3%, no councillors) and Roberto Fico 1.3% in Campania (1.3%, no councillors).[46]

At the local elections on 15 and 16 May 2011, the Movement occurs in 75 of the 1,177 municipalities in the vote,[47] including 18 of the 23 provincial capitals called to vote; in the first round the Movement enters its representatives in 28 municipalities (for a total of 34 elected councilors) and often resulting in some important decisive ballots[48] The best results are in the cities and towns of the center-north, especially in Emilia-Romagna (where the list gets between 9 and 12% in Bologna, Rimini and Ravenna) and Piedmont, while in the south rarely exceeds 2% of the vote.

Beppe Grillo in Trento, during the 2013 electoral campaign.

Regional elections in Molise on 16 and 17 October 2011 had its own candidate for the presidency and its own list, the list received 2.27% of the votes and the presidential candidate the 5.60% of the vote, but no seats[49]

At the 2012 local elections the M5S did well in several cities of the North, notably in Genoa (14.1%),[50] Verona (9.5%),[51] Parma (19.9%),[52] Monza (10.2%),[53] and Piacenza (10.0%).[54] In the small Venetian town of Sarego, the M5S's candidate was elected mayor with 35.2% of the vote (there is no run-off in towns with less than 15,000 inhabitants).[55] In the run-offs the party won the mayorships of Parma (60.2%),[52] Mira (52.5%),[56] and Comacchio (69.2%).[57]

After the election, the party consistently scored around 15-20% nationally in opinion polls, frequently ahead of The People of Freedom and second just to the Democratic Party (see 2013 general election).

At the Sicilian regional elections of 2012 the M5S fielded Giancarlo Cancelleri as candidate. The campaign kicked off with Grillo's arrival in Messina on 10 October swimming from the mainland;[58][59] in the election Cancelleri came third with 18.2% of the vote, while the M5S was the most voted party with 14.9%, obtaining 15 seats out of 90 in the Regional Assembly, in a very fragmented political landscape.[60] The election was however characterized by a low participation as only 47.4% of eligible voters effectively turned out to vote.[61]

2013 general election[edit]

Further information: Italian general election, 2013

On 29 October 2012, Grillo announced the guidelines for standing as party candidates in the 2013 general election.[62][63] For the first time in Italy, the candidates were chosen by party members through an online primary between 3 and 6 December.[64]

On 12 December 2012, Grillo expelled two leading members from the party: Giovanni Favia, regional councillor of Emilia-Romagna, and Federica Salsi, municipal councillor in Bologna, due to infringing the rules of the political party, the former had talked about the lack of democracy within the party, while the latter had taken part in a political talk show on Italian television, something that was discouraged and later forbidden by Grillo.[65]

On 22 February 2013, a large crowd of 800,000 people attended the final rally of Beppe Grillo before the 2013 general election, in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome.[66] On 24 and 25 February 2013, M5S contested all Italian constituencies: Beppe Grillo was listed as head of the coalition, although he was not an electoral candidate.

The vote for M5S in the Chamber of Deputies reached 25.55% of the vote in Italy and 9.67% for overseas voters, for a total of 8,784,499 votes, making it the second most voted list after the Democratic Party (which acquired 25.42% of the votes in Italy and 29.9% abroad, or 8,932,615 votes), obtaining 108 deputies. The M5S vote for the Senate was 23.79% in Italy and 10% abroad, for a total of 7,375,412 votes, second only to the PD (which garnered 8,674,893 votes), obtaining 54 Senators. This was a successful election for M5S as the party gained a higher share of the vote than was expected by any of the opinion polls, the M5S won 25.6% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies, more than any other single party. However, both the Italy Common Good centre-left coalition, centred on the Democratic Party, and the centre-right alliance, centred on The People of Freedom, obtained more votes as coalitions,[67][68] the M5S was the largest party in the Abruzzo, Marche, Liguria, Sicily and Sardinia.[49]

On 21 March 2013 Luigi Di Maio was elected Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies with 173 votes. Aged 26, he was the youngest Vice President of the house to date.[69][70][71]

2014 European election[edit]

Competing its first European election, M5S won second place at the national level 2014 European Parliament elections, receiving 21.15% of the vote, returning 17 MEPs.[72]

Beppe Grillo addressed the crowd in Rome, 2014.

In the run-up to the 8th parliamentary term, M5S was lacking a European affiliation and sought a European parliament group. Initial negotiations were held with Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) co-president Nigel Farage and The Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA).[73][74] However, on 4 June 2014, The Greens/EFA rejected Grillo's attempts to obtain group membership,[75] on 11 June 2014, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group rejected M5S as a potential affiliate in a statement citing M5S's perceived Euroscepticism and populism.[76] In an online referendum offered to M5S members on 12 June 2014, the choice of European parliament affiliation offered were Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD), the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), or to become Non-Inscrits.[77] Party activists voted by 78.1% to join the EFD group.[78] On 18 June 2014, it was announced that the EFD group had enough MEPs to continue into the 8th European Parliament term,[79] on 24 June 2014, M5S MEP David Borrelli was chosen as the group's new co-president and the EFD group name was amended to Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) for the upcoming parliament.[80][81] The EFDD group lost its official group status on 16 October 2014 after the defection of Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule, until Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz joined the group four days later.[82]

On 17 November 2015, after an online poll in which 40,995 people took part, the movement changed its logo to replace the URL of co-founder Beppe Grillo (beppegrillo.it) with the official movement URL.[83] The other option was to remove Grillo's URL entirely, replacing it with nothing, the grounds of the removal of Grillo's name was "the 5 Star Movement is mature enough and is preparing to govern Italy, so I believe it's correct not to associate it to a name anymore".[84]

Casaleggio's death[edit]

The movement's founder and main strategist Gianroberto Casaleggio died on 12 April 2016 in Milan, at the age of 61, after a long period of illness, due to brain cancer,[85] after his death, his son Davide was appointed as the president of "Casaleggio Associati" and took his father's office as leader and strategist of the M5S.[86]

Ideology[edit]

In the Five Star Movement converge themes derived from ecological and anti-particracy promoting the direct participation of citizens in the management of public affairs through forms of digital democracy. The movement wants to be a "democratic encounter outside of party and associative ties and without the mediation of directive or representational organisms, recognising to all users of the Internet the role of government and direction that is normally attributed to a few",[87] from the economic point of view, it embraces the theories of degrowth, supporting the creation of "green jobs" and the rejection of polluting and expensive "great works", including incinerators and high-speed rail, aiming to an overall better quality of life and greater social justice.[88] The Five Star Movement proposes the adoption of large-scale energy projects, elimination of waste, sustainable mobility, protection of territory from overbuilding, teleworking,[89] the movement's political discourse often refers to the Internet as a solution to many social, economic, and environmental problems. This approach bears similarities with North-American cyber-utopianism and the Californian Ideology.[90]

Direct democracy[edit]

The movement bases its principles on direct democracy as an evolution of representative democracy, the idea is that citizens will no longer delegate their power to parties, considered old and corrupted intermediates between the State and themselves, that serve the interests of lobby groups and financial powers. They will succeed only by creating a collective intelligence made possible by the internet.[87]

The Five Star Movement, in order to go in this direction, chose its Italian and European parliamentary candidates through online voting by registered members of Beppe Grillo's Blog.[91][92] Through an application called "Rousseau" reachable on the web,[93] the registered users of M5S discuss, approve or reject legislative proposals (submitted then in the Parliament by the M5S group), for example, the M5S electoral law was shaped through a series of online voting,[94] like the name of the M5S candidate for President of the Republic.[95] The choice to support the abolition of a law against immigrants was taken online by members of the M5S even if the final decision was against the opinion of Grillo and Casaleggio,[96] the partnership with the UK Independence Party was also decided by online voting, although the given options for the choice of European Parliament group for M5S were limited to: Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD), European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and "Stay independent" (Non-Inscrits). The option of joining the Greens/EFA group was discussed, but this option was not available at the time of the voting, due to that group's prior rejection of the M5S.[75][97]

Politics is not a career[edit]

One of the most important rules of M5S is that politics is a temporary service: no one who has already been elected twice at any level (local or national) can be a candidate again and has to go back to his or her original job.[87] Another feature of the movement is the so-called "zero-cost politics",[23] according to which politics must not become a career and way to make money. Belonging to the Movement requires the self-reduction of salaries of the citizens elected,[98][99] the movement also rejects campaign contributions. In the regional elections in Sicily in 2012, the Sicilian wing of the M5S also decided to allocate the money saved by the reduction of the salaries of their elected in a fund for micro-credit to help small and medium enterprises;[100] in the general elections of 2013 the Five Star Movement claimed to have rejected over €42 million of public electoral refunds,[101] supporting its expenses for the campaign with crowdfunding through the blog.[102][103]

No criminal records[edit]

In order to be Five Star Movement candidates, citizens must be without any criminal records,[87] the party also supports initiatives to ban politicians with criminal records from being elected. Among the greater political battles of M5S is the ethical commitment to a greater simplicity and transparency to counter the practice of holding two or more positions,[104][105] which show the intricate conflicts of interest between any organization, subsequently strengthened by public register[106] to avoid centralizations that are nepotistic and clientelistic.[107] The no-criminal-record rule currently prevents the Five Star Movement's founder, Beppe Grillo, from running for office, in view of an old conviction for manslaughter, the court found Grillo guilty because he was the driver in a car crash.

Same-sex marriage[edit]

The leader of the movement, Grillo, on 15 July 2012 publicly expressed his support for same-sex marriage[108] while the subject was discussed in the National Assembly;[109] in offering his support to marriage between homosexual citizens Grillo broke his silence on the subject, because observers speculated about him opposing same-sex marriage.[110]

On 28 October 2014, an online referendum took place among the activists of the Five Star Movement on the recognition of same-sex civil partnerships: 21,360 voted yes and 3,908 voted no;[111] in February 2016, the M5S decided not to officially back the proposal of recognition of stepchild adoption for same sex civil partnerships, refusing to take an official stand and gave its parliamentarians freedom of vote on the matter.[112]

No alliances[edit]

Grillo's campaign has an unwillingness to form alliances, as a result of his own refusal to be associated or characterized as any of the older political families including the centre-left and centre-right, as the government itself is made up of both centre-left and centre-right parties, the 5 Star Movement has had difficulties coming to agreement with any of the other parties. Despite the different views within the party, the issues on which the movement agrees keep the party intact through advocating the main five principles of the 5 Star Movement.[113]

A Tecné poll in the aftermath of the Italian general election, 2018 suggested that 56% of 5 Star Movement voters preferred a government coalition between M5S and Lega Nord. A coalition between the 5 Star Movement and the centre-right as a whole was preferred by only 4%. 22% preferred a coalition between the 5 Star Movement, the centre-left Democratic Party and the hard-left LeU. A technocratic government was only supported by 1% of the Movement's voters.[114]

Immigration[edit]

The Five Star Movement's position on immigration has been ambiguous, but Grillo wrote on his blog on 23 December 2016 that all undocumented immigrants should be expelled from Italy, that Schengen should be temporarily suspended in the event of a terrorist attack until the threat has been removed and that there should be revision of the Dublin Regulation.[115][116] On 21 April 2017, Grillo published a piece questioning the role that NGOs operating rescue ships off Libya are playing in the migrant crisis, asking where are they getting their money and strongly suggesting they may be aiding traffickers,[117] on 5 August 2017, Luigi Di Maio, who will lead the Five Star movement in the 2018 election, called for "an immediate stop to the sea-taxi service" bringing migrants to Europe.[118]

European integration[edit]

About the politics of the European Union and the Euro, the Five Star movement has often been highly critical, but like on other issues, its position is ambiguous, on 12 June 2014, the M5S having been rejected by both the Greens/EFA,[119] and the ALDE[120] European Parliament groups, offered its activists a limited-choice online referendum to choose a group for the party, in which 78% of participating activists voted for the Eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD).[121][78]

On January 2017, the Five Star Movement tried to change its group inside the European Parliament, moving from the EFDD to the ALDE, despite an initial agreement, ALDE leader Guy Verhofstadt refused the M5S' adhesion to the group, due to insufficient guarantees to come to a common position on European integration.[122] The attempted move caused a chilling of relations with EFDD leader Nigel Farage, who wasn't informed about the M5S' agreement with the ALDE.[123] Beppe Grillo was highly critical of the rejection and blamed "the establishment" for preventing them joining the ALDE,[124] on 9 January, the Radio Radicale news correspondent David Carretta published documents about fiscal and political benefits which would have accrued to the M5S for its adhesion to ALDE on Twitter.[125]

In December 2017, the M5S electoral leader, Luigi Di Maio stated that he supported a referendum for Italy to leave the Eurozone and would vote to leave.[126] However, in January 2018 he rejected his previous position,[127] refusing the idea of a referendum on the Euro, which was previously strongly supported by the movement;[128] in February 2018, Di Maio also stated that "European Union is the Five Star Movement's home".[129]

Criticism[edit]

During the 2010 Italian elections, some parties highlighted a contradiction between the voluntary collective action in the struggles of civil society and openness in political representation[130][131][132] Also in 2010, there were tensions between the movement and Italy of Values.[133]

Beppe Grillo (on the right) with Giovanni Favia (on the left), who was expelled from the movement in 2011.

In March 2012 the city councillor in Rimini, Valentino Tavolazzi advocated a national meeting on behalf of the movement,[134][135] which gathered about 150 participants, at the meeting there was both praise and criticism from the participants including from the few politicians who were present at the convention.[136] The meeting took a harsh stance on the "conditions of Regulation M5S" because it was discovered to be in conflict with the statutes of its Civic Party of origin "Project for Ferrara"; in response they lost the use of the logo[137][138] and were banned from taking any position on behalf of M5S, which was portrayed as a controversial move regarding internal democracy.[139][140][141]

Since 2007 Grillo has criticized the cost of politics by supporting the reduction of payment for deputies and senators.[142] Based on this policy, the benefits received by members of parliament would not exceed €5,000 gross per month, with any surplus returned to the State with solidarity allowance (also called end-term). According to the regional director of the Five Star Movement Giovanni Favia, the deduction of €5,000 gross salary of parliamentarians is, however, contrary to the principles of the movement, as it would result in a reduction of only €2,500 net; in an interview which was published in several newspapers in November 2012, Favia estimated at €11,000 per month the fees prescribed for a member of M5S, even though it does not explain how it got to deduct that amount because it necessarily includes reimbursements and per diem is not flat, as costs and expenses which vary from member to member.[143]

Following the expulsion of Giovanni Favia and Federica Salsi for expressing views about the lack of internal democracy, the party has expelled several members for criticisms,[144][145] the expulsions were made unilaterally by Beppe Grillo and, as per regulation, took place without prior consultation with members of the movement.[146][147][148]

Another criticism frequently made by the same movement activists and former activists, such as Federico Pistono, social entrepreneur and author of Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy and the former member,[149] is about the absence of any form of effective participation on the web.[150] There is a tool for collective writing of the program and the proposed laws, but the forum is considered inadequate for the purpose.[151][152] Through his blog, in September 2012, Grillo said that a portal to participate via the web was already under construction,[153] the triggering was scheduled for the end of the year 2012, but at the time of the elections of February 2013 it was not yet realized.

On 28 January 2014 Giorgio Sorial, a deputy of the M5S, accused President Giorgio Napolitano of being a hangman who repressed opponents.[154] [155] Prime Minister Enrico Letta immediately defended President Napolitano, charging the M5S with being extremists,[156] the following day Angelo Tofalo, another deputy of the movement, ended his speech at the Chamber of Deputies by shouting Boia Chi Molla! (hangman who gives up!) a famous motto used during the Fascist era.[157][158] Often the movement's members, especially its leader Beppe Grillo, have been accused of being too vulgar and (verbally) violent.[159] [160]

After a Five Star Movement demonstration inside the Chamber of Deputies against a law approved by the government,[161][162] caused a brawl between the M5S, the centrist Civic Choice, the right-wing Brothers of Italy and the centre-left Democratic Party.[163] Following insults to the President of the Chamber of Deputies Laura Boldrini,[164] on 31 January 2014 Corrado Augias, a famous Italian journalist, stated that the violence used by the M5S reminded him of fascism.[165] The following day a militant activist of the Five Star Movement burned some books of Augias and uploaded the photos to his Facebook profile, because according to him "Augias offended the movement",[166] this episode was readily taken up by major national newspapers and heavily criticized by public opinion, due to some similarities with Nazi book burnings.[167] Beppe Grillo criticized the action, saying that the person who uploaded the photos didn't represent the Movement.[168]

On March 4, 2018, Piera Aiello was elected MP for the Chamber of Deputies within the Five Star Movement, she had won 51 per cent of the majority vote in her constituency in Sicily despite being unable to publicly campaign and meet voters.[169] Aiello's campaign mainly consisted of television interviews and she kept her identity hidden throughout the television appearances. One Italian newspaper claimed "it was the culmination of a surreal election campaign". Aiello, who had been living under police protection since 1991, is the widow of a gunned-down Sicilian Mafia member.[170]

Some of the movement's activists have also been criticized due to their propaganda against vaccinations, which according to them are useless and cause autism.[171]

Electoral results[edit]

Italian Parliament[edit]

Chamber of Deputies
Election year # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/– Leader
2013 8,691,406 (#1) 25.6
109 / 630
– Beppe Grillo
2018 10,697,994 (#1) 32.7
227 / 630
Increase 119 Luigi Di Maio
Senate of the Republic
Election year # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/– Leader
2013 7,285,648 (#2) 23.8
54 / 315
– Beppe Grillo
2018 9,713,763 (#1) 32.2
112 / 315
Increase 58 Luigi Di Maio

European Parliament[edit]

Election year # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/– Leader
2014 5,807,362 (#2) 21.2
17 / 73
– Beppe Grillo

Regional Councils[edit]

Region Latest election # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
Aosta Valley 2013 4,773 (#6) 6.6
2 / 35
Increase 2
Piedmont 2014 396,295 (#2) 20.3
8 / 50
Increase 8
Lombardy 2018 933,243 (#3) 17.8
13 / 80
Increase 4
South Tyrol 2013 7,097 (#7) 2.5
1 / 35
Increase 1
Trentino 2013 13,877 (#6) 5.8
2 / 35
Increase 2
Veneto 2015 192,630 (#4) 10.4
5 / 51
Increase 5
Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2013 54,952 (#3) 13.8
5 / 49
Increase 5
Emilia-Romagna 2014 159,456 (#3) 13.3
5 / 50
Increase 3
Liguria 2015 120,147 (#2) 22.9
6 / 30
Increase 6
Tuscany 2015 200,771 (#3) 15.1
5 / 41
Increase 5
Marche 2015 100,202 (#2) 18.9
5 / 30
Increase 5
Umbria 2015 51,203 (#2) 14.5
2 / 20
Increase 2
Lazio 2018 559,752 (#1) 22.1
10 / 50
Increase 3
Abruzzo 2014 143,779 (#2) 21.4
6 / 31
Increase 6
Molise 2018 45,886 (#1) 31.6
6 / 21
Increase 4
Campania 2015 387,327 (#3) 17.0
7 / 49
Increase 7
Apulia 2015 275,114 (#2) 16.3
7 / 51
Increase 7
Basilicata 2013 21,219 (#3) 9.0
2 / 21
Increase 2
Calabria 2014 38,345 (#8) 4.9
0 / 30
–
Sicily 2017 513,359 (#1) 26.7
20 / 70
Increase 5
Sardinia 2014 N/A N/A
0 / 60
–

Regional governments[edit]

Region Government Seats
Aosta Valley −
0 / 35
Piedmont In opposition
7 / 51
Lombardy In opposition
13 / 80
Trentino-Alto Adige In opposition
2 / 70
Veneto In opposition
5 / 51
Friuli-Venezia Giulia In opposition
5 / 49
Emilia-Romagna In opposition
5 / 50
Liguria In opposition
5 / 31
Tuscany In opposition
4 / 41
Marche In opposition
4 / 31
Umbria In opposition
2 / 21
Lazio In opposition
10 / 51
Abruzzo In opposition
5 / 31
Molise In opposition
6 / 21
Campania In opposition
7 / 51
Apulia In opposition
8 / 51
Basilicata In opposition
2 / 21
Calabria −
0 / 31
Sardinia −
0 / 60
Sicily In opposition
20 / 70
Total seats
110 / 897

Leadership[edit]

Symbols[edit]

  • 2009–2015

  • 2015–2018

  • 2018–present

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Further reading[edit]

  • Bigi Alessandro, Bonera Michelle, Bal Anjali (2015) Evaluating political party positioning over time: a proposed methodology. Journal of Public affairs, DOI: 10.1002
  • De Rosa, Rosanna (2013). Voice of the People or Cybercratic Centralism? The Italian case of Beppe Grillo and Movimento Cinque Stelle. Edition Donau-Universität Krems. pp. 89–102. 
  • Lanzone, Maria Elisabetta (2014). The "Post-Modern" Populism in Italy: The Case of the Five Star Movement. Emerald Group. pp. 53–78. 
  • Musiani, Francesca (2014). Avant-garde: Digital Movement or "Digital Sublime" Rhetoric? The Movimento 5 Stelle and the 2013 Italian Parliamentary Elections. Springer. pp. 127–140. 
  • Sæbø, Øystein; Braccini, Alession Maria; Federici, Tommaso (2015). From the Blogosphere into Real Politics: The Use of ICT by the Five Star Movement. Springer. pp. 241–250. 
  • Tronconi, Filippo (2015). Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement. Organisation, Communication and Ideology. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4724-3663-4. 

External links[edit]

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