5-Star Movement leader Beppe Grillo
said on his blog Monday that the anti-establishment group must
work as a team or face an electoral debacle.
"We have a great team, we are citizens," Grillo said on his
blog after Sunday's local-election run-offs.
"Everyone has their job and everyone has their duty to never
give up. Either we move forward together now, or we will be
annihilated individually".
Grillo referred to Al Pacino's celebrated American football
film Any Given Sunday as he commented on the run-offs in a post
entitled "The M5S continues to grow at any given election".
"It is a question of a few metres from here to government,"
he said.
"I don't say that out of arrogance, but out of sense of
responsibility. We must have it clear that the hopes of millions
of people lie on this team".
The M5S did not have candidates in most of the big run-offs
on Sunday after a disappointing showing in the first round.
But Grillo stressed that the movement had won eight of the 10
run-offs it was involved in, saying this took the total of
mayors it has from 37 to 45, a rise of 20%.
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