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Five Star Direct Democracy
Abbreviation5SDD
Founder Luigi Di Maio
Founded2019 (2019)
Split from Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
Ideology Direct democracy
Anti-establishment
Anti-corruption
Populism
Soft Euroscepticism
Political position Syncretic

Five Star Direct Democracy [1] was a political alliance in the European Union created ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election by the then deputy prime minister of Italy Luigi Di Maio, with the intent of forming a political group in the European Parliament. [2] The alliance consisted of five political parties which shared a syncretic [3] [4] [5] political ideology centered around direct democracy and anti-establishment [6] [7] rethoric. [8] The alliance won 15 seats from two different countries (14 from Italy and 1 from Croatia), falling short of the 25 MEPs from seven member states required to form a political group in the European Parliament.

Membership

The following parties participated in the alliance:

Country Party Abbr. Representative [8] Ideology Seats Won
  Croatia Human Shield ŽZ Ivan Vilibor Sinčić Anti-establishment
1 / 11
  Finland Movement Now Liik Karoliina Kähönen Liberalism
0 / 13
  Greece Agricultural Livestock Party of Greece AKKEL Evangelos Tsiobanidis Agrarianism
0 / 21
  Italy Five Star Movement M5S Luigi Di Maio Green politics
14 / 73
  Poland Kukiz'15 K'15 Paweł Kukiz Right-wing populism
0 / 51

See also

References

  1. ^ "Wahlen in Deutschland". www.election.de. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. ^ "Italy's 5Stars launch new group in European Parliament". POLITICO. 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  3. ^ Woods, Dwayne; Wejnert, Barbara (2014-09-04). Many Faces of Populism: Current Perspectives. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN  978-1-78350-257-8.
  4. ^ https://kljuchrvatske.hr/wp-content/uploads/Kljuc-Hrvatske-statut.pdf
  5. ^ "Akkel.gr" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  6. ^ "Italy's Beppe Grillo battles to sustain anti-establishment message". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  7. ^ Szacki, Joanna Sawicka, Juliusz Skibicki, Wojciech (2015-11-03). "Ludzie od Kukiza w Sejmie: kim są, czego chcą, kto może ich przejąć". www.polityka.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-04-11.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)
  8. ^ a b "The Five Star Movement's attempt to create a European Parliament group". 18 February 2019.