Beppe Grillo

He gathered 40 individuals by first meeting. This reunion quickly assumed a more serious aim than sheer leisure and Grillo proposed to everyone to stop a moment and try to imagine a better world by starting from drawing a plan to improve everyone’s own city. The members began sharing ideas and proposals; the discussion started to get passionate; the solutions were sprouting. Topics such as Technology, Press-Communication, Ethical Consumerism and Currency Study had been discussed that day; This was the genesis of another populist movement in Europe. Four years later, Grillo founded the Five Star Movement which has been initially seen as a postideological protest party giving voice to a big number of unsatisfied Italians. The result of the first election poll in which the Movement took part shows very similar percentages between the main three parties running for the presidency. The Five Star Movement maintained a solid support from his voters and It’s, nowadays, the favourite for the next ballot. History has seen the birth of Populist parties usually after that a well-established…

originally wasn’t the fault of him, or the centre parties themselves, but more to do with the way that the government went about dealing with crisis’, such as the economic crash. The media tycoon and his party began to lose the trust of voters in a similar fashion to the top-down establishment that was going on in Greece. The Five Star Movement gained more popularity because of their stance on the Euro. The crash was so detrimental to so many people in Italy, and it was argued that from, “the…