As expected Lower House Deputy
Speaker Luigi Di Maio was declared winner of the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement's (M5S) online primary to
select its premier candidate at the weekend.
Di Maio was the hot favourite as he was the only on the M5S's
politician heavyweights to stand in the primary.
He said he was proposing policies that were "neither left
wing, not right wing" and wanted to lead a government of
national "revival".
There have been reports of divisions in the movement over the
primary and Roberto Fico, a member of the so-called 'orthodox'
uncompromising wing of the group, said Sunday that he did do not
consider Di Maio to be "the head of the general life of the
movement".
Italy is set to have a general election early next year and
the M5S are vying with the ruling Democratic Party (PD) to be
top party in the polls.
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