| Five Star Direct Democracy | |
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| Ideology: | Direct democracy Anti-establishment Anti-corruption Populism Soft Euroscepticism |
| Country: | the European Union |
| Abbreviation: | 5SDD |
| Founder: | Luigi Di Maio |
| Split: | Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy |
| Position: | Syncretic |
Five Star Direct Democracy[1] was a political alliance in the European Union created ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election by the then deputy prime minister of Italy Luigi Di Maio, with the intent of forming a political group in the European Parliament.[2] The alliance consisted of five political parties which shared a syncretic[3] [4] [5] political ideology centered around direct democracy and anti-establishment[6] [7] rhetoric.[8] The alliance won 15 seats from two different countries (14 from Italy and 1 from Croatia), falling short of the 25 MEPs from seven member states required to form a political group in the European Parliament.
The following parties participated in the alliance:
| Country | Party | Abbr. | Representative | Ideology | Seats won | |||
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| bgcolor= | Human Shield | ŽZ | Ivan Vilibor Sinčić | Anti-establishment | ||||
| bgcolor= | Movement Now | Liik | Karoliina Kähönen | Liberalism | ||||
| bgcolor= | Agricultural Livestock Party of Greece | AKKEL | Evangelos Tsiobanidis | Agrarianism | ||||
| bgcolor= | Five Star Movement | M5S | Luigi Di Maio | Green politics | ||||
| bgcolor= | Kukiz'15 | K'15 | Paweł Kukiz | Right-wing populism | ||||