The Five Star question
The new party has a clear path to victory, but fuzzy notions of what to do if it wins
ROSARIO SCAVO remembers when 80% of the inhabitants of Borgo Vittoria worked directly or indirectly for the Fiat car company. “It was a city within the city,” he says of the firm, to which he gave 33 years of his life. In those days, it went without saying that this working-class district of Turin, where the gleaming Alps are obscured by dismal apartment blocks, voted for the left. Once it was the Socialists or Communists, more recently the Democratic Party (PD) of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The Five Star question”
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