The key points
- Now fear prevails among the pentastellati
- Grillo has left Rome, waiting for Conte’s response
- Di Maio’s role: after the compliments of the Guarantor he invites unity and goes to Slovenia
- The Orthodox raise their heads: from Naples the appeal to Grillo to break with the Pd
“Everything is coming down”: the alarm among M5S parliamentarians is very high. What prevails is a kind of fear for what could happen a few hours from now. Beppe Grillo has already left Rome. Relations with Giuseppe Conte are held by a very thin thread that some big names are trying to reinforce. But it is a very difficult road. Conte, after reading the newspapers this morning in which Grillo’s phrases were reported to the deputies (“I’m not a jerk”, “it’s he who needs me, not me him”, “he presented me with a statute written in lawyer” , etc.), let it slip that he is ready to step back, to give up the M5S.
For Conte canceled commitments
The former premier has made it known that he will soon make his position public. He’ll probably let the weekend go by. A way to give the bridge builders time to work. In the meantime, Conte canceled his commitments (he had to participate in a webinar with Di Maio and Laura Castelli postponed until a later date) and met in his Roman home with some big names close to him such as the group leader in the Senate Ettore Licheri, the minister Stefano Patuanelli and Senator Paola Taverna.
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The founder’s requests for merit
Nobody is currently in a position to make predictions. There are also few public statements but under the cover of anonymity something comes out. Conte’s fans describe him as “embittered”, convinced that in the state “there are no more conditions to go on”. Not only for the unpleasant expressions used by Grillo towards him, which have compromised the personal relationship, but for the requests of merit of the founder who in fact wants to keep the last word. Luigi Di Maio, present at the assembly of deputies with Grillo in which he received a public appreciation from the comedian for how he is moving at the Farnesina, urges unity. «Never before has compactness needed within the Movement. We dialogue with the utmost commitment and we work to unite », is the reasoning that he passed on to those who spoke to him before flying to Slovenia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his independence. He is the real bridgeman. Although there are those who believe that, if Conte leaves the scene, the only one who can lead the Movement with Grillo’s approval would be the current Foreign Minister.
The wing lasts in turmoil
Meanwhile, Davide Casaleggio also comes to blow the fire: “I think there are two different visions of the Movement that are emerging,” says the son of the deceased co-founder, who asks why “they keep the statute secret?”. But the clash between Conte and Grillo is also relaunching the hard-wing M5S. Some Orthodox from Naples wrote to the Guarantor asking him to consent to the use of the M5s symbol to present a pentastellated candidate, breaking the alliance with the Democratic Party and supporting Gaetano Manfredi.