Anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio said Friday that founder
Beppe Grillo would remain in the group as a "great strength and
resource" ahead of a March 4 general election.
The M5S's candidate for premier said: "Some hope that Beppe
Grillo will step aside but the movement doesn't change - Grillo
is a great strength and resource, the greatest we have.
"He will be with us during this electoral campaign and also
afterwards and he remains the guarantor of the movement,
including in the new Statute which you can read", Di Maio said
after speculation that Grillo might step aside.
"The movement is always that of Beppe and Gianroberto, even
if Gianroberto is no longer with us", he said, referring to the
movement's co-founder Gianroberto Casaleggio, who died in April
2016.
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