Italy’s Five Star Party went from being a newly-founded political party to capturing nearly 35% of the seats in the Italian Parliament within 10 short years. It was a major force in getting Giuseppe Conte elected prime minister.
There are allegations that the meteoric and highly unusual political rise of the Five Star Party was the result of a dry run in election hacking meant to prepare for the hacking of the 2020 U.S. election.
Maria Zack of Nations in Action, a government accountability organization, has been working with individuals in Italy on bringing the truth about interference in the U.S. election to light. According to those sources she says, the 2018 parliamentary elections in Italy was practice for what would take place in the U.S. two years later. The main beneficiary of that 2018 election interference in Italy was the Five Star Movement.
Italy’s Five Star Party or Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) was founded in 2009, a time when anti-globalist forces began to rise in nations across the world. The party tapped into that sentiment with positions that were consistent with nationalist movements.
They were against mandatory vaccinations for example, as well as unfettered immigration.
Strangely, instead of using those positions as vehicles to make governments more accountable to the populations they govern, M5S seems to want to use the nationalistic positions it advocates for as a way to bring the Italian government closer to the Chinese Communist Party.
It can be argued M5S is the party that has been pushing the hardest for closer economic ties with Beijing, an anathema to most populist movements.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Rome in 2019 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) encompassing economic agreements worth nearly $3 billion, it was Luigi Di Maio, leader of M5S and the Italian Labor and Industry Minister at the time, that signed on behalf of the Italian contingency.
Also perplexing with regards to the M5S “grassroots” popularity is the fact that it lacks any type of significant local foundation. It’s in fact known in Italy predominantly as a “virtual” party. Much of its manifesto is decided by polling members remotely online.
The Italian government has recently collapsed and the Italian President Sergio Mattarella has appointed Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank, as prime minister. Critics say Draghi has come on simply to ensnare Italy further in a European Union debt trap.
Support for M5S seems to be fading fast but they may have accomplished their goal of providing the Italian people with a “faux” populist outlet that served to keep the country’s real populist parties (League and Brothers of Italy) at bay. It may have bought the establishment and Eurocentric forces in the Italian government just enough time and space to accomplish their ultimate goal: handing the proverbial keys to the country to the EU and the CCP more broadly.
Events of the last several years that have bound Italy tighter the EU and the CCP make the allegation that M5S’s success in 2018 was contrived all the more credible.
“The Five Star Party growing overnight, we’ve been told that the machines were actually used there the first time to influence that election where they were able to dominate and put Giuseppe Conte in power as prime minister,” Zack recently told ITN.
“We are very much calling for truth out of Italy.”