![]() ![]() The party’s 31-year-old leader, Luigi Di Maio, seems to have three options on the table, and each one has potential pitfalls. The only way to keep 5-Star out would be a coalition of virtually all the other parties, going from the far-right Northern League to the ruling Democratic Party (PD), the biggest loser at the election.īut 5-Star does not have the seats to govern on its own, so now it will have to do what until recently it had ruled out: come to terms with the parties it has always lambasted as corrupt and responsible for Italy’s economic decline. Parliamentary arithmetic suggests he is right. “There can be no government without 5-Star, everyone will have to come and talk to us,” said lawmaker Alessandro Di Battista, one of the party’s most popular politicians. Not only did a powerful, four-party center-right coalition fall well short of a parliamentary majority, but 5-Star emerged as the largest single party by some 13 points, meaning it will be very hard, if not impossible, to keep it out of government. It identifies with neither left nor right and draws disgruntled voters from across the political spectrum. ![]() The election could hardly have gone better for the maverick party founded nine years ago by comedian Beppe Grillo. 5-Star Movement founder Beppe Grillo (L) speaks next leader Luigi Di Maio during the finally rally ahead of the March 4 elections in downtown Rome, Italy, March 2, 2018. ![]()
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