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The 2021 Five Star Movement leadership election was an Italian online primary election held on 6 August 2021 that determined the president of the M5S. [1] The election was de facto a plebiscite in which party's members were asked to approve or reject the candidacy of former prime minister Giuseppe Conte as new leader. [2] [3] Conte easily won the election with 92.8% of votes. [4]
In February 2021, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was forced to resign, after losing the absolute majority in the Senate of the Republic. [5] [6] On 28 February 2021, after a few days from the end of his premiership, Conte joined the Five Star Movement (M5S), the party which proposed his candidacy as Prime Minister in June 2018. [7] [8]
After a few days, the founder and so-called Guarantor of the M5S, Beppe Grillo, gave Conte the task of writing a new party's statute and announced that Conte would become the new political leader. [9] In the following months, however, tensions grown up between the two politicians. In June, Grillo accused Conte of aiming at creating a one-man party and of being "without a political vision". [10] The former Prime Minister threatened to found his own political movement, stating that Grillo "can not stop this useful political project". [11] In July 2021, Conte and Grillo found a compromise on the new statute and leadership elections were called on 6 August. [12]
| Portrait | Name | Most recent position | Refs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Giuseppe Conte (1964– ) | Prime Minister of Italy (2018–2021) | [13] | |
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Conte | 62,242 | 92.81 | ||
| Against | 4,822 | 7.19 | ||
| Total votes | 67,064 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: Movimento 5 Stelle | ||||
| Choice | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Yes | 53,238 | 87.36 | ||
 No | 7,702 | 12.64 | ||
| Total | 60,940 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: Huffington Post | ||||
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