Five Star Movement
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Five Star Movement
Movimento 5 Stelle |
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| President | Beppe Grillo |
| Vice President | Enrico Grillo |
| Secretary | Enrico Maria Nadasi |
| Founded | 4 October 2009 |
| Headquarters | Via Roccatagliata Ceccardi 1/14, Genoa |
| Newspaper | beppegrillo |
| Membership (2016) | 135,023 |
| Ideology |
Populism Anti-establishment Direct democracy Environmentalism Euroscepticism |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy |
| Colours | Yellow, Red and White |
| Slogan | "One is worth one" |
| Chamber of Deputies |
91 / 630
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| Senate |
35 / 315
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| European Parliament |
15 / 73
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| Regional Government |
0 / 20
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Five Star Movement (Italian: Movimento 5 Stelle [moviˈmento ˈtʃiŋkwe ˈstelle], M5S) is a 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. 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), which was in place until October 2016, when Grillo dissolved the Directorate and proclaimed himself "political head". Davide Casaleggio, Gianroberto's son, has an increasingly important role in the M5S. 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.
The M5S is considered populist,anti-establishment,environmentalist,anti-globalist and Eurosceptic. Grillo himself provocatively once referred to it as "populist". 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, the principle of "zero-cost politics",degrowth, and nonviolence. In foreign policy, the M5S have condemned military interventions of the West in the Greater Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq,Libya) as well as any notion of American intervention in Syria.
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