Bills, electoral programs, political strategies, candidates for elections, from local to European administrations, reorganization of the Movement, but also leadership and political alliances, from the contract with the League to the agreement with the Democratic Party: the collection of topics on which the Five Stars have resorted to the vote on Rousseau, one of the main legacies of the founder, Gianroberto Casaleggio, the platform studied as a tool for online democracy, which also ended up in the crosshairs of hackers, of critics convinced that it is not an effectively representative system , as well as the Privacy Guarantor.
On the net since April 12, 2016, Rousseau is also supported by a fundraiser that yields one million euros in a year, even if fewer and fewer donations arrive from parliamentarians, who by "contract" should donate 300 euros of their allowances.
Now he also wants a vote on the Draghi government Davide Casaleggio, the founder's son, who toured Europe presenting the platform for the management of the movement in its various elective components and the participation of members, today 188,549, of which 119,918 with the right to vote.
The first of the 334 consultations (6,913,886 of expressed preferences) dates back to 5 July 2016: Lex Enrolled, two out of 129 bills are chosen that the starred 'spokespersons' will bring to Parliament.
In 2017, among other things, voting on the program for the elections in Sicily, on the foreign policy priorities of the M5S but also on the candidates for mayors in the cities.
Meanwhile, the operating system and graphics are updated, but Rousseau becomes the target of 'rogue0', a hacker who repeatedly sneaks into consultations: he claims to have voted dozens of times in the online primaries that crown Luigi Di Maio as prime minister on 21 September and movement leader.
There are grillini who imagine to "insert instruments of direct and participatory democracy in the Constitution", and the Rousseau Association aims to implement blockchain technology on the portal, and, in the intentions, also to allocate 3 million euros from the salaries of parliamentarians to the Protection Civil, to decide to run the M5S alone to the Regionals in Emilia Romagna and Calabria, or to appoint the 'facilitators'.
In fact, the Rousseau system debuted in the formation of a government when the contract with the League was approved with 94% of the votes on May 18, 2018.
In February 2019, the consultation instead serves to ratify the capilists chosen by Di Maio for the constituencies for the Europeans, as well as to establish the starry line on the Diciotti case: 52 thousand vote against the authorization to proceed for Matteo Salvini, who in that case applauds , except to attack when on Rousseau a year and a half later 63 thousand out of 79 thousand voters say yes to the birth of the Giallorossi executive with the Democratic Party: "It is more serious to ask the opinion of 60 million Italians" he said on that occasion.
