[09:57] Oriente Ilaria SEO: Regional elections 2023, Grillo’s tweet “The useful vote is for the useful idiot”

«The useful vote is for the useful idiot». Beppe Grillo, founder and guarantor of the M5S, writes it on Twitter by reposting an article from his blog signed by the Senator of the Movement Marco Croatti. “For years we have heard the invitation to voters to vote, an appeal that can be considered enlightening, because it allows the citizen to eliminate any temptation to vote for the politician or alignment that evoked him”, writes Croatti in the post. «Those who invite the useful vote obviously ask for the vote for themselves – he adds – not on the basis of programmes, projects, visions of the future but on the hairy philosophical concept that the menacing political adversary, the enemy, must be defeated in order for the good, the his”.

“It is these contemptuous attitudes of politicians that have contributed to having alienated citizens from the institutions and from participation in the democratic life of the country”, underlines the pentastellato senator. “The appeal that we want to send to citizens, however, is to continue to exercise the right to vote after having examined all the electoral proposals – adds Croatto – the challenges and battles of the M5s are clear and to lead them we have chosen people who have stories, skills and ideas similar to ours. No useful vote, therefore, but a coherent vote to give strength to your idea of ​​the future”.