Courtesy of Mish.
Beppe Grillo, leader of M5S (Five Star Movement), Italy's second largest political party, seeks a referendum for Italy to leave the Euro.
One might think this would be news, but a search shows that only RT, the BBC, ZeroHedge (where I found the story), and Prison Planet picked up the story.
"Ditch Euro, Defend Sovereignty"
RT had the story first, way back on October 12, so let's start there. Please consider ‘Ditch euro, defend Italy’s sovereignty!’ Eurosceptic leader calls for referendum.
The Italian government is not effective in restoring jobs and helping people, said Beppe Grillo, the leader of Italy's anti-establishment M5S, which burst onto the political scene last year winning 25 percent of the vote in its first parliamentary election in 2013.
“Leave the euro and defend the sovereignty of the Italian people from the European Central Bank,” Grillo told his supporters at a M5S event in Rome.
“We have to leave the euro as soon as possible,” he said. “We will collect one million signatures in six months and bring them to the Parliament to ask for a referendum to express our opinion.”
“This time, we have 150 parliamentarians and senators, and we have time to submit [the signatures] to the Parliament and adopt a law on the referendum,” Grillo said referring to 109 seats out of 630 in the Chamber of Deputies and 54 seats out of 315 in the Senate that his party holds.
European Parliament Elections
In the May European Parliament elections, Beppe Grillo's M5S party garnered 21% of the vote, second only to PD's 41% of the vote.
Yet, even though Grillo repeated his "abandon the euro message" recently, the only major news outlet to pick up the story was the BBC.
New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, where are you hiding?
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