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BelgianMadCow

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4. You really missed what he's trying to do. The elected members will do exactly what you ask
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 07:59 AM
Feb 2013

Grillo has refused a full blown coalition negotiation - direct democracy like he (and OWS and 15M and me) advocates for an end to party politics. That doesn't mean the end of politics. He has literally said they will "judge each policy proposal on a case-bycase basison its merits and support it accordingly".

Read up a bit more, for starters in his blog, where his most recent post explains why he won't endorse a government.

And as an aside: even if it were "just" an opposition party unwilling to govern and compromise, yes there could be a lot of good in that. Like, providing transparency and a voice for the people who support them?

Also, what Beppe Grillo himself says isn't the be all end all - he himself will NOT enter parliament (never intended to) because he has a conviction for a traffic accident, and one of the 5 star movement rules is you can't govern when you've got one.
Neither will he be able to dictate to the 150 elected supporters of the movement what they should do. And that is precisely the point.

It's a novel concept, indeed. Politics past partisanship in the interest of the common good. By the people, for the people.

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