(see related story on Renzi)
5-Star Movement (M5S) leader
Beppe Grillo wrapped up the anti-establishment group's campaign
for a No vote in Sunday's Constitutional referendum with a rally
in Turin's central Piazza San Carlo on Friday.
"This reform that they want to pass has a legislative
structure that no one understands," the
comedian-turned-politician said.
"They do it deliberately because the brain does not want
complexity, it depresses it. People don't understand and they
don't react, so they can steal everything from you, including
public water and public schooling".
The rally was attended by leading M5S lawmakers Luigi Di
Maio, Roberto Fico and Alessandro Di Battista and the M5S's new
mayors of Rome and Turin - Chiara Appendino and Virginia Raggi -
whose local election victories this year were seen as a big step
forward for a movement founded in 2009.
"The country is split, whether one wins or one loses," Grillo
said.
"It's a situation of mental stasis.... You have to react
here. You have to react here," he added, banging his fists on
his stomach.
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