Rousseau is the Five Star’s online voting platform, the principal weapon in its armory as champion of “digital democracy”. US president’s extraordinary proposal represents what appears to be his first attempt at floating a suspension of the election.Von der Leyen promises ‘a Union of equality’ as six Polish towns have applications for EU cash turned down.There is logic behind saying to hell with reelection.Taking a fancy trip at a time of crisis can be a bad look for an elected official.Former UK ambassador to Turkey will take over as head of MI6 in the fall.The president also offered new praise for a Houston-area physician who peddles in conspiracy theories.The revelation is laid out in a new bipartisan congressional report that was released on Wednesday following a two-year investigation.There is no evidence from several clinical trials that the anti-malarial has any impact in preventing COVID-19 or treating mildly to severely ill people.UK risks major security losses if Brexit talks break down.British prime minister says other countries could be added to the UK’s quarantine list.The government has been able to rule by decree since January.There’s no single way to deal with statues from a painful past.Beyond helping to curb infections, face masks offer a reprieve from small talk and social niceties.The former Army tank commander, Douglas Macgregor, is a critic of military leaders and a fixture on Fox News.Mark Sedwill backs calls for government ministers to be based in the north of England.Public Health England says the case should ‘not be a cause for alarm.’Young men from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds were twice as likely to be fined as their white peers. When the 5Stars leadership had to decide whether to enter into government with the far-right League party of Matteo Salvini last year, it first ran an online vote in which the party's base signed off on the idea, with 94 percent voting in favor of a coalition government with Salvini.Beppe Grillo, Luigi Di Maio and Davide Casaleggio after presenting the new symbol of the 5Star Movement | Angelo Carconi/EFE via EPAThe result showed how critical Rousseau, which is privately held and largely controlled by Casaleggio, remains to the party's operation.It is also key to the appeal of the 5Star Movement, offering voters direct participation in the political system free from the influences that supposedly pollute more conventional parties.Created by 5Stars co-founder Gianroberto Casaleggio, Rousseau was conceived as an online venue where political participants could consult experts, conduct online debates on bills and organize various forms of political mobilization.Davide, Gianroberto's son, took over the leadership when his father died in 2016. That includes debating laws and proposals, and electing the party’s candidates for the elections.Casaleggio says that the Rousseau platform is dealing with some of the problems. "What's driving the day in Westminster. Now it is up to us to expose these anti democratic practices and put an end to their manipulations - In Italy and around the world.What can you expect from a guy his main activity before being voted in as M5S leader was a Napoli ball boy?
Although there were those who wondered why his opponents were a handful of relative unknowns, while high profile party figures like Alessandro Di Battista and Robert Fico, who might have given him a run for his money, were absent from the ballot. Although trailing Salvini’s League in the polls, the anti-establishment M5S has more seats in parliament and as much in common with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) as it did with the increasingly hard-right League. But let me talk about something dawning on me recently Kay, after a NYT article about a week ago: it appears the ones giving Trump's excessive power run for his money are in for something like nazi censorship, something extremely dangerous for us lovers of free expression and opinion. Italy appears on its way to a new government. The first GDPR fine was issued in Italy by the Garante for the lack of implementation of privacy security measures following a data breach on the so-called Rousseau platform operating the websites of the Movimento 5 Stelle party.