More than 30% of Italians would like to see crusading comic Beppe Grillo become premier, according to a poll out on Wednesday.Grillo has been in the spotlight after hundreds of thousands of Italians turned out to sign his petition aimed at purging parliament of MPs who have been in trouble with the law.The success of the Saturday campaign shook Italy's political establishment.Two Thursday polls showed that ordinary Italians were far more pro-Grillo than the politicians, many of whom have accused the Genoese comedian of "anti-politics" and "shallow demagoguery".The survey by Rupert Murdoch's satellite TV Sky Italia, which asked viewers what they thought of Grillo, found that 34% wanted him to head the government.Another 12% said he would make an ideal opposition chief.The majority, 54%, said they wanted him to continue his firebrand style of denunciation-by-humour.In another poll by research institute Ipr for Italian daily La Repubblica, 23% of respondents said they wanted Grillo to enter politics and found a party.The idea of a Grillo party was particularly popular with undecided voters (31%) and centre-right voters (25%) while only 8% of centre-left voters said they would back him.In the Ipr survey, 64% said they would prefer Grillo to continue using his cult status to put pressure on parliament and lawmakers from the outside.V-DAY SUCCESS TAKES PARLIAMENT BY SURPRISE.
