2017 Five Star Movement leadership election
21–22 September 2017
 
Nominee Luigi Di Maio Elena Fattori
Party Five Star Movement Five Star Movement
Popular vote 30,936 3,596
Percentage 82.6% 9.6%
Leader before election

Beppe Grillo

 Elected leader

Luigi Di Maio

The 2017 Five Star Movement leadership election was an Italian online primary election held on 21 September 2017 that determined the M5S candidate to the premiership for the 2018 Italian general election.[1]

After the election, the 31 years old Luigi Di Maio was elected candidate to the premiership and political head of the movement.[2]

Background

The party's leader Beppe Grillo, would campaign in the 2018 election, but he would not be the candidate for the position of Prime Minister, even if many critics accused him of being, in case of an electoral win, the de facto head of the government. The Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies Luigi Di Maio, was widely considered as the "front runner" and the most likely candidate for the premiership of Italy.[3]

Luigi Di Maio had been often labeled as the most pragmatic and "institutional", but also the less populist, Five Star politician; he is the son of a member of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement and he is considered the leader of the moderate and "governmental" faction of the movement.[4][5]

No other leading members of the M5S, such as Alessandro Di Battista (a populist politician, personal friend of Di Maio) or Roberto Fico (leader of the M5S left-wing faction and rival of Di Maio and Di Battista), ran for the office.[6]

Di Maio's opponents were the Senator Elena Fattori (Vice President of the 9th Permanent Senate Committee) and six other city councilors.[7] Many of them were almost unknown and this caused a lot of criticism, both from the Democratic Party, Lega Nord and Forza Italia,[8] which considered this ballot a false primary election, with the only aim of appointing Di Maio as M5S candidate without any real challenger.[9]

Candidates

Major candidates

Portrait Name Most recent position Refs
Luigi Di Maio
(1986– )
Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies
(2013–incumbent)

Other positions
 [10][11]
Elena Fattori
(1966– )
Member of the Senate of the Republic
(2013–incumbent)

Other positions
  • None
[12][13]

Other candidates

Name Details and notes Refs
Vincenzo Cicchetti
  • Member of the Rimini City Council
 [14]
Andrea Davide Frallicciardi [15]
Domenico Ispirato
  • Member of the Verona City Council
 [16]
Gianmarco Novi
  • Member of the Monza City Council
 [17]
Nadia Piseddu [18]
Marco Zordan
  • Member of the Sarego City Council
 [19]

Results

Candidate Votes  %
Luigi Di Maio   30,936  82.62%
Elena Fattori   3,596   9.60%
Nadia Piseddu   1,410   3.77%
Gianmarco Novi   543   1.45%
Marco Zordan   373   1.00%
Vincenzo Cicchetti   274   0.73%
Andrea Davide Frallicciardi   168   0.45%
Domenico Ispirato   102   0.27%
Total votes  37,442 100.0
Source: Blog di Beppe Grillo
Vote
Di Maio
 
 82.62%
Fattori
 
 9.60%
Piseddu
 
 3.77%
Novi
 
 1.45%
Zordan
 
 1.00%
Cicchetti
 
 0.73%
Frallicciardi
 
 0.45%
Ispirato
 
 0.27%

References

  1. ↑ "Il candidato premier del Movimento 5 Stelle". Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  2. ↑ M5s, Di Maio eletto candidato premier e nuovo capo politico. Ma alle primarie votano solo in 37 mila
  3. ↑ Aldo Giannuli, storico consigliere di Grillo e Casaleggio: "Primarie bulgare per far vincere Di Maio"
  4. ↑ Luigi Di Maio e i soliti ignoti. Un big e sette innocui carneadi alla corsa alla premiership M5S
  5. ↑ M5s, i due padri fascisti antesignani del "vaffa": il lessico familiare di Di Maio e Di Battista
  6. ↑ M5s, no di Fico e Di Battista: 7 candidati premier sfidano Di Maio
  7. ↑ M5s, primarie in rete: 8 candidati premier. La senatrice Fattori sfida Di Maio. Rinunciano Fico, Morra e Di Battista
  8. ↑ M5S. Oggi si vota il candidato premier. Sette 'sconosciuti' sfidano Di Maio
  9. ↑ Un nome forte e percentuali bulgare: primarie M5s copiate (male) da Pd e Lega
  10. ↑ Verso le elezioni, primarie M5S: il rebus per incoronare Di Maio
  11. ↑ M5S, primarie blindate per Di Maio: chi perde non potrà candidarsi in Parlamento
  12. ↑ Candidato – Elena Fattori
  13. ↑ Scheda di attività – Elena Fattori
  14. ↑ Candidato – Vincenzo Cicchetti
  15. ↑ Candidato – Andrea Davide Frallicciardi
  16. ↑ Candidato – Domenico Ispirato
  17. ↑ Candidato – Gianmarco Novi
  18. ↑ Candidato – Nadia Piseddu
  19. ↑ Candidato – Marco Zordan
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