Anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) bigwig Alessandro Di Battista said Monday he
would not be standing at the next general election early next
year.
"But I'm not leaving the movement, that will never happen,"
he said on Facebook.
"It's like a second skin".
Di Battista said he would take a year's sabbatical and write
a book, his second after Better Free, which some have likened to
Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries.
Di Battista said his decision to take a year out from
representative politics "is only a scandal in Italy where
everyone is nailed to their seats of office".
He voiced confidence that the M5S would win the next
elections.
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