5-Star Movement (M5S) founder Beppe
Grillo has said that the current election law was designed to
ensure the anti-establishment group does not take over the reins
of government.
"Today we are in post-democracy. There has been a coup that
is the other way around. They used democracy to destroy it,"
Grillo said in an interview with French monthly Putsch.
"In reality, we have found ourselves at an impasse, as we
knew we would, because of an election law," he said referring to
the so-called Rosatellum system, approved in 2017 with the
backing of the Democratic Party, Forza Italia and the League.
"The law was specially designed to stop us from governing.
"So what is democracy?
"I don't know, but democracy should allow those who get the
most votes to govern".
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