![Five Star Movement](https://cdn.newsserve.net/en/knowledge/Five-Star-Movement_20190120.jpg)
Italy's Five Star Movement seeks to join The Left in the European Parliament
The Left has told Italy's Five Star Movement that there are "clear political conditions" before the party can join the group.
euronews (in English)
The Five Star Movement is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The party was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a political activist and comedian, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist, and is primarily described as populist of the syncretic kind, due to its members' insistence that it has no place in the left–right political spectrum. The party is a proponent of green politics, direct democracy and, broadly, progressivism.
The Left has told Italy's Five Star Movement that there are "clear political conditions" before the party can join the group.