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Eurosceptic M5S Party Candidate Leads in Rome Mayoral Vote

Edit Sputnik 06 Jun 2016
Italy's eurosceptic Five Star Movement (M5S) candidate Virginia Raggi came atop in the Rome mayoral election on Sunday, exit poll results found Sunday ... ....

Raggi Leads in Push to Be Rome’s First Female Mayor, Poll Finds

Edit Bloomberg 05 Jun 2016
If results confirm the findings, Raggi and Giachetti would fight a run-off contest on June 19. The first projections of results are due overnight ... A victory in Rome would hand the Euroskeptics of M5S their biggest win yet and deal a blow to Renzi’s efforts to convince Italians he can make good on his pledge to end years of stagnation ... M5S received 28.1 percent while the anti-immigration Northern League had 14.8 percent ... ....

Local elections in Italian communes present test for PM Renzi

Edit Deutsche Welle 05 Jun 2016
Italians have voted in local ballots viewed as a test for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his center-left Democratic Party. In the capital, Rome, the rising Five Star movement (M5S) has campaigned against corruption ... ....

Brexit round the corner

Edit The Malta Independent 05 Jun 2016
It was The Guardian, which is firmly in the Remain camp, which announced this week that a poll it commissioned shows that the Brexit camp has surged ahead in the UK ... But I doubt it ... There are two problems here ... On the one hand, a Brexit success will fuel all the Eurosceptics in Europe, from Marine Le Pen in France to AfD in Germany, to Podemos in Spain, to Syriza in Greece to M5S in Italy and all the rest ...  ....

Rome’s Mayoral Hopeful Takes Aim at Europe

Edit Bloomberg 03 Jun 2016
Yet the Five Star Movement, known as M5S, she represents is one of the populist parties giving Europe’s establishment nightmares ... A victory in the eternal city would hand the Euroskeptics of M5S their biggest win yet and deal a blow to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s efforts to convince Italians he can make good on his pledge to end years of stagnation.Winning in the Cities....

Corruption gripes help Five Star Movement top Italy local election polls

Edit The Guardian 02 Jun 2016
The anti-establishment M5S party is tipped for success in Sunday’s elections, including the race to become mayor of Rome ... His monologue captured many of the reasons why Raggi, the candidate of the Five Star Movement (M5S), is leading the polls ahead of local elections in Rome and other Italian cities on Sunday ... Last month, the M5S suspended him after he was placed under investigation over appointments in the city....

Italian 'Five Star Movement' Hopes to 'Shake' Government With Veneto Vote

Edit Sputnik 18 May 2016
Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) party hopes that Wednesday’s vote in the Veneto Council to drop sanctions against Russia would send a strong message to the Italian government and all Europe, an M5S member in Veneto told Sputnik ... ....

Brexeunt stage left: the Europeans hoping that Britain votes Brexit

Edit The Guardian 18 May 2016
France ... A vote to leave would “prove it’s possible to live outside the EU. You’re either free or you aren’t,” Le Figaro quoted her as saying ... the Five Star Movement (M5S), a populist anti-establishment party whose founder, Beppe Grillo, has said he admires Farage, and the rightwing Northern League ... M5S, supported by about 28% of Italians (barely 5% behind the ruling Democrats), has, however, called for a referendum to leave the eurozone....

Bomb joke bares Five Star crisis in Italy

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 17 May 2016
Italy’s acerbic Beppe Grillo may have hung up his political gloves to return to the comedy circuit, but backlash over a bomb joke targeting London’s new mayor has aggravated an identity crisis within his populist Five Star movement (M5S) ... ....

Leader of Italy's second biggest party asks when London Mayor Sadiq Khan will 'blow up Westminster'

Edit The Independent 16 May 2016
Beppe Grillo, who heads the country's second-largest party the Five Star Movement (M5S), at first praised the "Bangladeshi" Mr Khan - whose family are from Pakistan - after the Labour candidate's sweep to victory in the capital's elections on May 5....

Anger over Italy's Beppe Grillo's Sadiq Khan joke

Edit Al Jazeera 16 May 2016
The leader of the populist 5 Star Movement (M5S) started his comedic act on Saturday by praising Khan's political achievements and said the new mayor's success served as "a prime example that one must never stop dreaming", according to British and Italian media ... The anti-establishment Five Stars Movement (M5S) was founded by Grillo in 2009, and is ......

Beppe Grillo provokes outrage with Sadiq Khan ‘bomb’ joke

Edit The Guardian 15 May 2016
Racist and misogynist humour is not uncommon within extreme parties in Italian politics, but the remark by the head of the Five Star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment party founded by Grillo in 2009, came as his own party’s candidate, Virginia Raggi, is leading contender to become the next mayor of Rome ... Another M5S mayor, Filippo Nogarin of Livorno, also recently revealed he was under investigation for fraud....

News Analysis: What are real challenges for Italian gov't?

Edit Xinhua 08 May 2016
by Marzia De Giuli ... On Wednesday, Renzi said that his party "has brought civil and penal suits" against vice president of the lower house Luigi Di Maio and other members of the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement (M5S). The remarks came after the M5S, which is now the second largest political bloc in the parliament, raised doubts about the financing of PD and of Renzi's non-profit political think tank ... Editor. Mu Xuequan. ....
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