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Italy must become a community. No one must be left behind. It’s intolerable, inhuman, to see the queues of people who have been turfed out of their jobs a few years before retirement age, people turfed out of their homes, and people who are unemployed waiting at the Caritas soup kitchens while the people who have plunged the country into poverty are going around with body guards, in official blue cars and with no financial problems. The parties are the main ones responsible for this situation. They have occupied the State. They have sold it off. They have taken out its flesh from the inside. Now, thanks to the newspapers and the TV channels that they control, they present themselves as the saviours of the fatherland, they, the very people who have fleeced it and used it for their own interests.
Italy has taxes at a level that is among the highest in the world. It has one of the highest values for public debt. It has an unemployment rate, especially among the young, that in just a few years, has forced a million and a half young Italian people to emigrate, including those with diplomas and degrees gained through the sacrifices of their parents. Now is the time to say “basta”. That’s enough! This farce must end or it will be the end of our country. There’s no time left. We have to send them all home. All those that are part of this rotten system have to go, they have to disappear. But before that, they have to justify any increase in wealth that they may have amassed. I’m not asking for your vote. I’m not interested in your vote without your participation in public affairs, without your direct involvement. If your vote for the M5S is simply a way of delegating someone to decide for you, then don’t vote for us. If we are to change this country, then we have to do it all together. There’s no other way. We will come out of the darkness and once more we will see the stars. The State must protect the citizens, or it’s not a State. This is why we need a citizen’s income. I am the State, you are the State, we are the State. Let’s claim back Italy for us." Beppe Grillo

20 points to come out of the darkness:

1. Citizen's income


2. Immediate measures to reinvigorate small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)


3. Anti-corruption Law


4. Computerisation and simplification of the State


5. Abolition of public contributions to the parties


6. Creation of a “politometro” {politician-o-meter} to measure illicit enrichment of the political class in the last twenty years


7. Introduction of the possibility of having a referendum that puts forward a proposal and doesn’t need a quorum


8. Referendum about staying in the euro


9. Obligation for Parliament to discuss every popular initiative law and have an open vote on it


10. A single public TV channel without advertising and independent of the parties


11. Direct elections of candidates to the Lower House and to the Upper House


12. Maximum of two terms of office as an elected representative


13. Law on conflict of interests


14. Restore the funds that have been cut from Health and Public Education


15. Immediate abolition of direct and indirect financing of newspapers


16. Free access to the internet for citizens


17. Abolition of the IMU property tax on primary residences


18. Primary residences not subject to distraint


19. Elimination of provinces


20. Abolition of Equitalia

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