But Di Maio, said to have been groomed by Grillo for the leadership, has other ideas. And now anger is again credited with driving its latest success, with Di Maio attracting support from voters who might otherwise have backed the centre-left Democratic party. In the past, Five Star talked about pulling Italian troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, but Di Maio now says the party is committed to Nato. “Di Maio will try to moderate the weirdest things about the Five Star,” said Iacoboni. “It’s a magic moment for Five Star,” said Mattia Diletti, a politics professor at Sapienza University in Rome.

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2018 16:16 UTC