Leder Femstjärnerörelsen när Grillo drar sig tillbaka

The Five Star Movement (Italian: Movimento 5 Stelle [moviˈmento ˈtʃiŋkwe ˈstelle], M5S) is a political party in Italy. The M5S was started by Beppe Grillo, a popular comedian and blogger, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist, on 4 October 2009. After Casaleggio's death in April 2016, Grillo appointed a Directorate composed of five leading MPs (Alessandro Di Battista, Luigi Di Maio, Roberto Fico, Carla Ruocco, Carlo Sibilia), which lasted until the following October, when Grillo dissolved it and proclaimed himself "political head." Formally speaking, Grillo is also president of the association named "Five Star Movement," with his nephew Enrico Grillo vice president and his accountant Enrico Maria Nadasi secretary. Davide Casaleggio, Gianroberto's son, has an increasingly important, albeit unofficial role. The M5S is variously considered populist, anti-establishment, environmentalist, anti-globalist, and Eurosceptic. Grillo himself provocatively once referred to it as "populist". Its members stress that the M5S is not a party but a "movement" and it may not be included in the traditional left-right paradigm. The "five stars" are a reference to five key issues for the party: public water, sustainable transport, sustainable development, right to Internet access, and environmentalism. The party also advocates e-democracy, direct democracy, the principle of "zero-cost politics", degrowth, and nonviolence. In foreign policy, the M5S has disapproved military interventions of the West in the Greater Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) as well as any notion of American intervention in Syria. At the 2013 general election the M5S was the most voted party (excluding Italians abroad) for the Chamber of Deputies, but obtained just 109 deputies out of 630 due to the fact it refuses to form a coalition and was third if it were counted as a coalition. In the European Parliament the M5S has been part of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group, along with the UK Independence Party and minor right-wing parties, since the 2014 European Parliament election. In January 2017 M5S members voted in favor of Grillo's proposal to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group, but the party was eventually refused and, as a result, it has continued to be part of the EFDD group. Two party members, Virginia Raggi and Chiara Appendino, were elected mayors of Rome and Turin, respectively, in 2016.