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The Washington Post: A top leader of Italy’s Five Star Movement: Why we won
By Davide Casaleggio March 19 at 12:39 PM
When the Five Star Movement received the highest percentage of votes — 33 percent — in the Italian elections on March 4, its candidate for prime minister, Luigi Di Maio, said: “You can’t stop the wind with your hands.
Citizens everywhere are calling for real democracy, to express their voices directly and to no longer be held back by the establishment.”
The Five Star Movement garnered around 11 million votes in the recent election. Each vote cost us about 9 cents — a cost covered by micro-donations from about 19,000 citizens who donated a total of about $1 million, supporting all the costs of our election campaign. For the traditional parties, according to the political group More Europe, a single vote cost nearly one hundred times more, about $8.50 per vote.
Our slogan — “Participate, don’t delegate!” — is what guarantees our continuing success in the future.
And our hope is that we will provide a model for renovating democracy everywhere by giving it back to the citizens.