Rome triumph puts Italy protest party into top league

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Rome triumph puts Italy protest party into top league
Fanny Carrier
June 19, 2016

Rome (AFP) - Italy's anti-establishment Five Star movement (M5S) has achieved a major breakthrough by winning Rome's mayoral election.

The country's second biggest political force is a hard-to-describe broad church, resisting traditional categories of left and right and defined by its anti-establishment stance.

How did it emerge? M5S as founded by comedian Beppe Grillo in 2009 as an alternative to established politicians and institutions in a country long blighted by corruption.

It eschewed traditional political channels and the media for civic lists and citizen meet-ups, embracing the expletive "vaffanculo" ("go screw yourself&quot as a political slogan.


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[jberryhill]

1. Catchy slogan

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Go screw yourself

Is the "polite" translation.

[Feeling the Bern]

3. For some reason, "vaffanculo" is an awesome political slogan

Lenny Bruce said it best: "if you outlaw the word fuck, you outlaw the ability to say fuck the government."