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Towards the 5 star party
No full text2017 is an important year in the short history of the Italian Five star Movement (M5s), both from a symbolic and substantial point of view. Municipal elections held in June marked the end of M5s’s first cycle as a governing actor at the local level, which began in 2012 with its success in the northern city of Parma. Together with the seats gained during regional elections in Sicily in November, the M5s continued its ongoing consolidation in local politics. TheM5s also continued to have enduring problems both on the ground and internally. Furthermore, 2017 is an important year from an organizational perspective, since the M5s witnessed the selection of Luigi Di Maio as candidate for prime minister and leader. The young vice-president of the Camera dei deputati (the Italian Parliament’s lower chamber) embodies the slow, controversial, and largely incomplete shift from an anti-system movement to a (would-be) ruling party. This chapter frames the Five Star project as part of the European populist wave and connects its success with the party’s ability of combining elements of both left-wing and right-wing populism. In particular, this work outlines the M5s’s complex route towards normalization and institutionalization on the eve of the 2018 General Elections
5 Stars. 5 Years. 5 (broken) taboos
No full textThe Italian Five-star Movement, like many outsider parties currently on the rise worldwide, owes its success to, among other things, its capacity for breaking political taboos. It has been doing this through the nature of its communication styles, with its tendency to question the basic assumptions underlying the political game itself. The Movement became a party or rather, while remaining a ‘movement-party’ it reinforced the party element. This process of adaptation, normalisation and institutionalisation has led it to break many of its own taboos, to question the traits that had made it distinctive when it first emerged. The need to present itself as a potentially governing actor drove the M5s to redefine the nature of its internal organisation and its relations with the mass media, to revise the substance of its political message and its approach to democracy. Finally, its success at the 2018 elections has since led it to question the ultimate, and potentially the most insidious, taboo: the taboo against the formation of alliances, which was broken in the aftermath of 4 March with the contract for government agreed with the League
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