No Berlusconi Day was a spontaneous mass political event organized by the Purple People protest organisation and held worldwide on December 5, 2009.
A small group of bloggers started to comment on the sentence through online social networks, and later proposed a public protest against Silvio Berlusconi.
[citation needed] This proposal was successful, and spread quickly across social media: in less than a week the "No Berlusconi Day" page reached over 20,000 members.
Many prominent public figures supported the No Berlusconi Day; among them were: Antonio Di Pietro, Walter Veltroni, Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luttazzi, Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Beppe Grillo, Dario Fo, Dacia Maraini, Margherita Hack, Piero Ricca, Sabina Guzzanti, Roberto Vecchioni, Moni Ovadia, Salvatore Borsellino, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Vincenzo Vita[1] The event immediately attracted significant media attention, and members of 'No Berlusconi-Day' staff appeared on TV news and also were interviewed by major Italian newspapers.
The PD Secretary, Pierluigi Bersani, remained somewhat ambiguous, thus creating much disillusionment in the Party's supporters and staff.