The League is now a classic far right party fighting immigration, the ‘cultural hegemony’ of the Left, and the economic ‘dictatorship’ of the European institutions, while claiming to defend the Christian roots of Europe. [...] The Third Republic cherished by Di Maio promises to maintain a steady stream of scandals.3 The League and M5S pledged to bring a new morality against the corruption of the political system, but beyond their different ideologies, they seem to be united by a very opaque management of the res publica. [...] The only official ideology of M5S is the so-called “common sense”, in other words they claim to implement the common good by osmosis, because they “are” the citizens, as opposed to the traditional parties, which constitute a separate caste of professional politicians. [...] He took the leadership of the League and brought the party in a new era of social media presence, polarizing and taunting provocations, using an aggressive language and embodying the charismatic leader of the right after Berlusconi had to give up the role. [...] The MPs of M5S are now split between the non- inscrits (together with Jobbik, Golden Dawn, and the Brexit Party) and the group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, together with the Polish Eurosceptic Janusz Korwin- Mikke, Debout la France, and other far right populist parties.
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