Five Star Direct Democracy

Five Star Direct Democracy
Abbreviation	5SDD [1]
Founder	Luigi Di Maio
Founded	2019 (2019)
Split from	Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
Ideology	Direct democracy Anti-establishment Anti-corruption Populism Soft Euroscepticism
Political position	Syncretic
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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]} rhetoric. ^[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	Populism	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	Populism	14 / 73
Poland		Kukiz'15	K'15	Paweł Kukiz	Right-wing populism	0 / 51

See also

• Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, pan-European alliance aiming to democratise the EU
• Yellow vests protests, motivated by similar principles to 5SDD
• Law and Justice, successor to Human Shield
• European Alliance for Freedom and Democracy, of which ŽZ, AKKEL, and K'15 were membres

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 ^{[ bare URL 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.
8. "The Five Star Movement's attempt to create a European Parliament group". 18 February 2019.