«The president of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte summoned the National Council for tomorrow morning at 8.30. Conte will illustrate his position on the measures anticipated during this morning’s meeting of the Government with the social partners. Given the delicacy of the moment, the position of the M5S will not be anticipated before tomorrow, out of respect for the members of the statutory body called to assist President Conte in defining the political line. Therefore any declaration or position expressed by individual members of the Movement is to be understood as an expression of a personal opinion ”. This is what an official note of the 5stelle Movement points out, to which the ball is passed again after Draghi’s meeting with the unions and the statements of the president of the council at a press conference.
The pentastellato leader in the last few hours has maintained pressure on Palazzo Chigi, stating that he expects “prompt responses” with respect to the nine-point document delivered to the premier last Wednesday that he wants to update himself with his “as soon as possible”. The answers have now arrived. And Draghi himself referred to “many themes in common between the government agenda and the demands of the 5 Stars”. Not surprisingly, the Foreign Minister and leader of Ipf Luigi Di Maio referred to the summit with the trade unions, with the intention of highlighting the pretext of the pentastellate claims: “Even the meetings we are having in these days – he said – and that there have been today with the unions are very important because there are three working tables on minimum wages, precariousness and tax wedge that serve to lighten the effects of this unprecedented economic crisis on Italian citizens ». Then, the lunge on Conte: “We have to work seriously, there cannot be a political force that says’ maybe I will abstain on Thursday.”
«We are in the umpteenth fibrillation of the government, in the umpteenth crisis in which there is a political force that is generating instability, the 5 Star Movement is substantially jeopardizing the objectives we must achieve in the country. They must tell us – he concluded – if they are inside or outside ».
In the evening, Luigi Di Maio spoke to Filorosso on Rai3, excluding “that there may be another government” in this legislature. “There is no space – he stressed -, almost all the political leaders have said so”. then, referring to the Five Stars, “beyond what they will do” tomorrow in view of the vote on the Aid, “let’s say what they are doing – said the Foreign Minister -. Irresponsibility is one of the reasons that led me and 60 other parliamentarians “to leave the Movement, because” you can’t pick off the government “in a historical phase like this. “If we decide to create a government crisis, we have to tell ourselves what the effects are. You have to ask them, Draghi is right to say clearly that if this is a government of national unity, they have to tell us if they are inside or outside. They unload their internal problems on the government ».
Voting against the aid decree “means turning your back on the country – he concluded -. I wouldn’t want there to be a new Papeete ”, which would be much more serious because“ we were in peacetime then ”.