M5S leader Luigi Di Maio said that around 80 per cent of party members voted “yes” to backing a M5S-PD government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
“We should be proud of this digital platform... because we offered a different method for creating a government,” Di Maio told journalists in Rome.
“The political program is complete, now we move to the government composition.”
The vote was carried out on the movement’s Rousseau online platform, an exercise in the anti-establishment party’s much-vaunted “digital democracy”.
Nearly 80,000 people voted.
Once President Sergio Mattarella has agreed to Conte’s cabinet, the prime minister will have to win confidence votes in both houses of parliament before the government can officially start work.
