In August, no one would have bet a euro on the rise of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), which, since its triumphant victory in 2018 with 32% of the vote, has plummeted with each ballot.
The polls projected it at 11%.
At the beginning of September, its leader, Giuseppe Conte, was not even invited to the ecumenical meeting of Rimini, because its organizers had taken him for politically dead.
At Forum Ambrosetti in Cernobbio, Italy's Davos, he was the only leader to address the audience from a distance, uncomfortably and eliciting embarrassed laughter from the room.
In other words, while Mario Draghi himself couldn't stand him, the establishment had wiped him off the political map.
But now he has entered the battle with an argument: the defense of citizen income, of which 60% of the 3.3 million beneficiaries reside in southern Italy, or 2.2 million people.
This allowance of 550 euros per month on average, created in 2019 by the 5 stars, was to help its beneficiaries to find…
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