The Five Star Movement's political ideas: No more than two mandates in politics, direct democracy, internet and environmentalism

But what is the five Star Movement program that got so popular throughout Europe? The movement in question was founded on October 4th 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian and bluffer, and by Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web player.

The five stars are widely seen as a populist, anti-Estabilist, environmentalist, anti-globalist and Euro-sceptic movement. Some are designated rightist party while others are left. Grill himself provocatively called his movement “opulistic”, follows Periscopi.

Party members in question insist that “are not a party but a” movement, which cannot be included in the traditional paradigm between right and left.

Main ideas:

Direct Democracy: The five stars movement bases its principle of direct democracy as an evolution of repressive democracy. The idea is that citizens will no longer delegate their powers to parties [considered as old and corrupt mediators between the state and those] who serve the interests of lobbyist groups and financial powers. They will be overcome only by the creation of collective intelligence that becomes possible by the internet.

In order to go in this direction, the Five Star Movement chose its candidates for deputies of Italy and the European Parliament through online voting by members registered in the Beppe Grillo blog.

Internet: Author Simone Natale describes how digital utopianism plays a very important role in the five Star Movement views, saying that Grylo and Casaleggio view the web as a transparent, unified transparent “entity of the timeline”, with logic, its laws, its agency.

Politics is not a career: One of the most important rules of the Five Star Movement is that politics is temporary service: no one who has already been elected twice at any [national, national, local] level can be a candidate again and must return to its usual work. Suppose, Giuseppe Cete, Italy's outgoing and future prime minister, had not had a political career in advance and would not have been behind the second term as prime minister. He was a law professor, but it doesn't belong to movement in question.

Another idea of this movement is “zero-prime policy”, under which politics should not become a career and a way to earn money and popularity. Moving requires self-reducing the salaries of elected citizens. The movement also refuses donations in the campaign, writes Periscopi.

No criminal record: In order to be candidates of the Five Star Movement, citizens must not have criminal records.

Same sex marriage:

On July 15, 2012, Grillo had publicly expressed his support for same - sex marriages while the issue was being debated at the National Assembly.