IF AN election were held in Italy today, according to the latest polls, the winner would be Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement (m5s). Termometro Politico, a website that averages poll results, currently puts it fractionally ahead of the governing Democratic Party (PD). But what-if any-thing-does the M5S stand for? The movement claims to be neither right nor left; its positions on issues are often contradictory. And after the most humiliating setback in the m5s's brief history, the answer is less clear than ever.
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