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image by Ivan Sache, 29 June 2016
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M5S (MoVimento 5 Stelle = Five Star Movement)
M5S is a political party
founded in 2009 by actor/comedian Beppe Grillo, as a result from several protest
rallies (Vaffanculo Day = F**k You Day) and the experience from several civic
lists for municipal elections. The party does reject the term "party", as the
main part of its agenda is against the Italian partitocratic system itself. It
organizes itself mainly over the internet (Grillo's blog beppegrillo.it) and
rejects the usual party hierarchy, so Beppe Grillo is neither president nor
secretary, but (self-styled) spokesperson ("megafono"). The five stars in the
name and the symbol refer to main parts of the platform: public water,
sustainable transport, development, connectivity, and environmentalism.
M5S,
after already having some success in regional and municipal elections in
2010-2012, became the surprise winner of the February 2013 elections: about 25%
of the votes, and thus the third-strongest force after the Center-Left and
Center-Right coalitions. Its intransigence, in particular its reluctance to
enter in any coalition with one of the old parties, has left Italy in limbo
since the elections.
M. Schmöger, 15 April 2013
Beppe Grillo, the party's founder and leader, announced on 15 February
2016 a change in the party's logo, substituting in the base of the circular
emblem the writing "MOVIMENTO5STELLE.IT" for "BEPPEGRILLO.IT".
http://www.beppegrillo.it/2016/02/da_oggi_si_usa_il_nuovo_simbolo_del_movimento_5_stelle.html
Article 3 of the party's Statutes (labelled "non statuto") was
amended on 15 February 2016 to reflect the change, as follows:
Seal.
The name of MoVimento 5 Stelle shall be placed on a seal registered in the
name of the homonymous association, which is the sole owner of the rights of
use of the emblem, defined as "a red circumscribing line, in the upper half
of the field, the writing 'MOVIMENTO' in black letters on a white
background, the letter 'V' written in red in a fanciful font; in the lower
half of the field, placed horizontally, five yellow five-pointed stars, the
shade in the upper part darker than of the lower part, outlined in dark.
Along the lower inner part of the circle is written 'MOVIMENTO5STELLE.IT',
in a curvilinear mode, in black characters on a white background."
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/materiali-bg/Regolamento-Movimento-5-Stelle.pdf
The change was submitted to an electronic vote, announced on 17
November 2015 in the Political Communiqué No. 56. Grillo explained that the
movement he had founded through a blog had grown adult and aspired to govern
Italy; accordingly, his name had to be dropped from the emblem.
http://www.beppegrillo.it/2015/11/comunicato_politico_numero_cinquantasei.html
The vote was organized the same day. The proposal of emblem with
the amended writing received 31,343 votes out of the 40,995 certified
votes, while the proposed emblem without any writing received only 9,652
votes. Grillo added that the new emblem could not be official until the next three months, for "bureaucratic reasons", and encouraged his supporters
to keep using the original emblem in the meantime.
http://www.beppegrillo.it/2015/11/il_nuovo_simbolo_del_m5s.html
A photo
taken in Rome on 19 June 2016 shows supporters of the party celebrating the
victory of Virginia Raggi in the municipal election with a flag charged with
the new emblem.
http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/italie-le-drapeau-5-etoiles-flotte-sur-le-capitole-20-06-2016-2048276_24.php
image by Ivan Sache, 29 June 2016
The party also uses, seemingly less frequently, a white flag with
the party's name above the five stars.
Photos:
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http://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/politica/2015/12/28/sviste-fucksia-ribelle-stelle-dallo-chapeau-boschi-caso-bilardi_jUkLTpsyTI7FIsh8w1zubL.html
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http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Politica/2016/6/6/MOVIMENTO-5-STELLE-Elezioni-Milano-2016-Lista-M5S-preferenze-seggi-ed-eletti-la-rivincita-di-Patrizia-Bedori-amministrative-oggi-6-giugno-/709427/
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http://castelli.romatoday.it/marino/consiglieri-eletti-movimento-5-stelle.html
Ivan Sache,
29 June 2016
image by M. Schmöger, 15 April 2013
The [former] flag shows the logo on a white field [1]; there are many, obviously
locally produced, versions of the flag, so that the logo differs in size as does
the ratio of the flag [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. In addition, several of the local lists
have slightly to heavily modified versions. Beppe Grillo personally has the
rights to the logo, that shows five yellow stars under the black inscription
MOVIMENTO (the "V" in red), and in base the URL.
Sources:
[1] flag
no. 233 in Italian political flags collection Schmöger, from Reggio Emilia
branch
[2]
http://www.beppegrillo.it/listeciviche/liste/emiliaromagna/DSC00570.JPG
[3]
http://www.idealista.it/news/archivie/imagecache/noticia/23/5_stelle.jpg
[4]
http://www.ivg.it/photogallery/albums/userpics/10002/224259_205964842774933_184707411567343_531810_2630713_n.jpg
[5]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapofeurasia/7218222570
[6]
http://www.beppegrillo.it/listeciviche/liste/laivesfutura/assets_c/2012/05/IMG_3623-thumb-960x540-13031.jpg
[7]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SyBQ830P5KA/T6lRH4FzDPI/AAAAAAAAAMc/lBZtJTOZsYI/s1600/2.JPG
[8]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0h9OL6JBH20/T8SBt3vGfTI/AAAAAAAAAbI/pIYQclnRut8/s1600/IMG_0218.JPG
M. Schmöger, 15 April 2013
