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ANALYSIS-Election result may condemn Italy to weak, short govt

February 28, 2013 13:45
By Barry Moody ROME, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Italy's electoral earthquake seems to have condemned the country to the thing it needs least - a short-term government and new elections in as little as six months or a year. A huge protest vote in the Feb 24-25 election produced the worst possible result for Italy's stagnant and recession-hit economy - a parliament in which no single group has a workable majority and populist leader Beppe Grillo has the whip hand.

INSIGHT-Grillo's rookies ready to take Italian parliament by storm

February 28, 2013 09:45
* Grillo's deputies all in their twenties or thirties * None have previous experience in parliament * Are mostly pragmatic, shun ideology * Grillo may find it hard to control them By Francesca Piscioneri and Gavin Jones ROME, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Meet the Grillini. They are the 162 very ordinary people who are now regarded with trepidation by financial markets and world leaders after this week's Italian election failed to produce a government.

Italy's political crisis deepens, Grillo refuses to support govt

February 27, 2013 13:30
* Grillo slams door on centre-left * Leftist Vendola rules out government alliance with centre-right * Few other options to avoid new elections By Barry Moody ROME, Feb 27 (Reuters) - An Italian political crisis that has rattled the euro zone deepened on Wednesday when two party leaders ruled out the most likely options to form a government and avoid a new election.

UPDATE 1-Italy's Grillo rules out voting for centre-left government

February 27, 2013 10:45
ROME, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Populist leader Beppe Grillo on Wednesday ruled out voting for any government led by the traditional parties after Italy's inconclusive election but said his 5-Star Movement could back individual laws. Democratic Party (PD) leader Pier Luigi Bersani, whose centre-left coalition took the most seats in parliament but failed to win a majority in the vote which ended on Monday, has put out cautious feelers towards 5-Star, which benefited from a huge protest vote.

Italy's Grillo says ready to support laws but not vote for govt

February 27, 2013 09:45
ROME, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Populist leader Beppe Grillo, who won the most votes in Italy's election, said on Wednesday his 5-Star Movement would support individual measures in parliament but would not give a confidence vote to any government led by traditional parties.

RPT-ANALYSIS-It's about to get serious for Italy's triumphant comic Grillo

February 27, 2013 04:30
(Repeats with no changes) * Grillo has become key player in Italian politics * His party may be more pragmatic than expected, spur reform * At local level his movement has earned respect * Party unprepared for parliament, could dissolve By Gavin Jones and Francesca Piscioneri

Grillo supporters unfazed by Italian political gridlock

February 26, 2013 17:30
* "I'm not worried about financial markets" - Grillo supporter * Some suggest 5-Star, like Greece's SYRIZA, could lose second vote * Frustration, disgust with political class fuelled movement By Steve Scherer and Naomi O'Leary ROME, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The only Italians celebrating the deadlocked outcome of Monday's election were supporters of comic Beppe Grillo, whose 5-Star Movement steamrolled into parliament and sparked fears that Italy could reject austerity and even the euro.

ANALYSIS-It's about to get serious for Italy's triumphant comic Grillo

February 26, 2013 16:00
* Grillo has become key player in Italian politics * His party may be more pragmatic than expected, spur reform * At local level his movement has earned respect * Party unprepared for parliament, could dissolve By Gavin Jones and Francesca Piscioneri

Italy protest party will not ally with anyone: leader

February 26, 2013 11:37
Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement will not ally with anyone but would consider approving reforms on a case-by-case basis, its leader said on Tuesday after his shock election success. "The M5S is not allying with anyone as it has always said," former comedian turned anti-corruption firebrand Beppe Grillo said in a blog post on his popular website.

Italy's joker turns kingmaker: Grillo in the driving seat

February 26, 2013 08:17
With dozens of new lawmakers from an Italian protest movement still dazed after a shock election success, the party's former comedian turned activist leader was suddenly in the driving seat on Tuesday. Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement (M5S) captured over a quarter of the vote for the lower house, incredibly becoming the biggest individual party in parliament and the number three grouping after the main right and left coalitions.
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