The anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) has no need for a leadership directorate now that
members have voted for Lower House Deputy Speaker Luigi Di Maio
to be premier candidate, sources close to Di Maio and M5S
strategy advisor Davide Casaleggio said Tuesday.
"There will be no mini-directorate, the issue is not on the
agenda and has never been discussed," the sources said,
"categorically" ruling out this hypothesis.
"Now we have a candidate who is also head of the political
party, which makes the formation of any other form of leadership
or direction body superfluous, as the tasks were fully taken up
by Di Maio after he was elected".
Di Maio was a member of a short-lived leadership directorate,
which founder Beppe Grillo dissolved last year.
The M5S, which was founded only eight years ago, is slightly
ahead of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD) in most
opinion polls ahead of a general election early next year.
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