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The Five Star Movement (Italian: Movimento 5 Stelle [moviˈmento ˈtʃiŋkwe ˈstelle], M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021.
- Five Star: from Protest to Establishment
- Five Star: Shining Ever Less Bright
- Five Star and Draghi
- A Lost Decade?
The Italian Five Star Movement was, in many ways, the beacon of European populism. It was an anti-establishment movement founded not by a politician but by a comedian (Beppe Grillo) in opposition to the corruption of the mainstream Italian political parties. It was a party, it claimed, ‘neither of the left or right, but above both’. In the 2013 nat...
And it has paid a huge price. Indeed, the 2018 election marked the high-water mark for Five Star, when it attracted 32.7% of the vote. Opinion polls since have recorded an almost consistent decline, to a mere 10.6% today. Five Star was overtaken in the polls by the Lega in August 2018, by the Democrats in May 2019, and by Fratelli d'Italia in Octob...
Those elections are due in spring 2023. However, they might happen earlier (in October, for example) if the split causes Five Star to withdraw its support for Draghi. The Five Star split was ostensibly about the ambivalent position adopted by the President of the Party, Giuseppe Conte, and his allies over the government’s Ukraine policy. Conte has ...
Yet, for Five Star, a much bigger question looms. How and why did it manage to waste its opportunity to revitalise Italian politics over the past decade? Ultimately, its problems derive from a fundamental ambiguity about its identity. A policy of ‘neither left nor right’ had the power of attraction for a party of protest. But it left Five Star ill-...
1 mar 2018 · Italy’s Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, M5S) has both a short and a long history. Let’s begin with the short history. It is part of a broad phenomenon called anti-establishment ideology, which is the backbone of populism.
26 ago 2021 · Italy’s Five Star Movement has now been in government for over three years, but the party still defies easy classification. Drawing on a new study, Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi examines how the party is defined by its electoral base.
16 lug 2022 · The background to the latest government crisis in Italy is a power struggle within the Five Star Movement (M5S), led by former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. The movement boycotted a...
26 giu 2022 · Five Star Movement split over Ukraine unsettles Italy’s ruling coalition. Turbulence returned to Italian politics this week thanks to a fallout between the Five Star Movement’s two top...
21 giu 2022 · ROME — Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has split from the 5Star Movement and taken a number of lawmakers with him in protest at the party’s stance on supplying arms to Ukraine. Di Maio, a central figure in the movement and its former leader, announced his departure on Tuesday evening.
