Tosa Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Tosa

Journalist

A 37-year-old professional journalist originally from Genoa, after a path of collaborations between Corriere Mercantile, Secolo, Primocanale and Il Fatto Quotidiano, he passes to the other side of the barricade. In August 2015 he received a call from the Ligurian regional group of the Five Star Movement who offered him the position of press office. He, who is politically on the left, accepts despite being neither a militant nor a member of the Five Star Movement and accepts because he considers it “an interesting experience at an institutional and political level”.
Everything went smoothly until 2018 when the Five Star Movement allied itself with the national government with the League. “That politics crushed on issues distant from me such as sovereignism and immigration made my role incompatible,” he says, and so the resignation came. Lorenzo Tosa’s farewell to the Five Stars makes noise because he decides to do it, and in this there is the whole social turn, via Facebook. But his letter of resignation is not the formal communication of a decision but a political manifesto of disapproval of the latest five-star choices. In his post, Tosa talks among other things about reception, Europe, civil rights, all issues that with the yellow-green government seem to be put aside. And the post immediately goes viral. Six thousand likes, two thousand shares, the front page of Repubblica notices him and radio and TV interviews arrive that see Tosa as the rebel of the Five Stars. All those shares convince him to go on. Lorenzo Tosa seems to perfectly embody the young left-wing communicator who does not recognize himself in the current alignments. And so the followers quickly go from 3 to 10 thousand, then 50 thousand up to the current 400 thousand. He was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2024 with “Vorrei chiederti di quel giorno” (Ed. Rizzoli).