BREAKING: ITALIAN FIVE STAR MOVEMENT VOTES TO LEAVE #UKIP’S #EFDD GROUP

Italian MEPs from the Five Star Movement, UKIP’s partner in the European Parliament EFDD group, will be leaving the far-right alliance after 78.5% of party members voted to quit in an online referendum.

Only 5.6% of the 40,000 members who voted wanted to stay with the UKIP dominated group…

Italy, M5S EU parliament group referendum:

ALDE (federalist, liberal): 78.5%
NI (various ideologies) 15.9%
EFDD (anti-EU, right-wing) 5.6%

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) January 9, 2017

Updates will follow…