Five Star Direct Democracy

{{Short description|European political alliance in 2019}}{{Infobox political party

| name = Five Star Direct Democracy

| colorcode = #FFEB3B

| foundation = {{Start date|2019}}

| ideology = Direct democracy
Anti-establishment
Anti-corruption
Populism
Soft Euroscepticism

| country = the European Union

| abbreviation = 5SDD

| founder = Luigi Di Maio

| split = Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy

| position = Syncretic

}}

Five Star Direct Democracy{{Cite web |title=Wahlen in Deutschland |url=https://www.election.de/cgi-bin/content.pl?url=/img/poll/eu19par_prognose_190520.html |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=www.election.de}} was a political alliance in the European Union created ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election by the then deputy prime minister of Italy Luigi Di Maio, with the intent of forming a political group in the European Parliament.{{Cite web |date=2019-02-15 |title=Italy's 5Stars launch new group in European Parliament |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/italys-5stars-launch-new-group-in-european-parliament/ |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=POLITICO |language=en}} The alliance consisted of five political parties which shared a syncretic{{Cite book |last1=Woods |first1=Dwayne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HmKtBAAAQBAJ |title=Many Faces of Populism: Current Perspectives |last2=Wejnert |first2=Barbara |date=2014-09-04 |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing |isbn=978-1-78350-257-8 |language=en}}https://kljuchrvatske.hr/wp-content/uploads/Kljuc-Hrvatske-statut.pdf{{Cite web |title=Akkel.gr |url=http://akkel.gr/akkel.pdf |access-date=2024-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424184900/http://akkel.gr/akkel.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-24 }} political ideology centered around direct democracy and anti-establishment{{Cite web |title=Italy's Beppe Grillo battles to sustain anti-establishment message |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ac527eb2-d5ce-11e3-a017-00144feabdc0 |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.ft.com}}{{Cite web |last=Szacki |first=Joanna Sawicka, Juliusz Skibicki, Wojciech |date=2015-11-03 |title=Ludzie od Kukiza w Sejmie: kim są, czego chcą, kto może ich przejąć |url=https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1639115,1,ludzie-od-kukiza-w-sejmie-kim-sa-czego-chca-kto-moze-ich-przejac.read |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.polityka.pl |language=pl}} rhetoric.{{cite web | url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-elections-2019/opinion/the-five-star-movements-attempt-to-create-a-european-parliament-group/ | title=The Five Star Movement's attempt to create a European Parliament group | date=18 February 2019 }} The alliance won 15 seats from two different countries (14 from Italy and 1 from Croatia), falling short of the 25 MEPs from seven member states required to form a political group in the European Parliament.