sunday in a landslide the conservative was facing the social democratic party leader eureka done chilla the run up to the election was dominated by public anger over allegations of corruption by. packed like sardines that's the motto of a new italian grassroots movement challenging. his far right league party thousands of demonstrators have been packing public squares in italy holding shapes banners that's the symbol of a growing movement against far right populism the protesters say they want to halt rise to power ahead of pivotal local elections. and your border federica baggio joins me in studio with more on those sardines so how did this movement get going well karl it all started with a pretty spontaneous flash mob in the city of blowing in northern italy on november 14th on that day mantissa leaning was visiting the city and 4 young friends from that city they set up this facebook event calling upon fellow citizens to gather in one of the city squares to pack the square like sardines or. and they were hoping to reach 6000 participants but actually more than double and that's more