I don’t normally agree with comic-turned-political-agent-provocateur Beppe Grillo, but I have to say that the three referendum proposals he’s announced under the banner “Libera informazione in libero stato” (Free information in a free country) are spot on. The proposals are to:
abolish the Ordine dei Giornalisti, a Fascist-era institution which journalists must be enrolled in;
abolish subsidies […]
The campaign to repeal the electoral law passed in 2005 has been hugely successful. But it’s not the only popular initiative aimed at changing the electoral law. Beppe Grillo’s got in on the act.
Grillo is collecting signatures for three related petitions (which have purely moral force): one to bar convicts from standing for parliament, one […]
In the same week that two key nominations are made “in full autonomy”, according to Petruccioli, “nomine politiche”, according to La Russa, Beppe Grillo writes about another route to power in Rai: nepotism.