Ready to go with Di Maio 50 deputies and 11 senators
There are currently fifty in the Chamber and eleven in the Senate, the 5 Stars ready to follow the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and among these there are five of the eleven between undersecretaries and deputy ministers in the Movimento quota. This is the latest count circulating between Montecitorio and Palazzo Madama on the collection of signatures which started on the morning of Tuesday 21 June by some parliamentarians close to the Foreign Minister, for the formation of an autonomous group in the Chamber and a component of the Mixed in the Senate . Numbers that, confide the parliamentarians en route to the management of Giuseppe Conte, are destined to increase after the ballot on Sunday 26 June. «We have already collected over 50 signatures, beyond expectations. We are still receiving submissions. We can reach 60 members ”, underline parliamentarians close to the minister.
Who should go through with the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Out of 227 5s parliamentarians (155 in the House and 72 in the Senate), more than a quarter are therefore ready to put the Movement behind them, also considering Senator Emiliano Fenu, who would have decided to leave his group but not to follow Di Maio. Among the forty-nine deputies who have so far signed up for the creation of a new group (a fiftieth has given the floor, but has yet to sign), according to what is learned there are also the Deputy Minister of Economy Laura Castelli, the quaestor of the Chamber of Grapes, Vincenzo Spadafora, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Manlio Di Stefano, the one for the South Dalila Nesci and the one for Health Pierpaolo Sileri. Simone Battelli, president of the EU Politics Commission, Vittoria Casa, who chairs the Culture Commission, and Filippo Gallinella, head of the Agriculture Commission, are also added to the list. Among the senators there are the Undersecretary of Justice Anna Macina Primo Di Nicola, Vincenzo Presutto, Trentacoste, Campagna, Donno, Vaccaro and Simona Nocerino.
In the Senate the obstacle of the regulation for new groups
According to the rules of the Chamber, 20 deputies are needed to set up a group in Montecitorio. In the Senate, on the other hand, the road is more complicated: at least ten senators are needed to establish a parliamentary group, but Article 14 of the regulation says that the groups must “represent a political party or movement that has presented its candidates in the Senate elections with the same mark, resulting in the election of senators “.
The hypothesis of an exit of M5s from the majority
And alongside the count, rumors are also beginning to circulate that they would like Conte, forced to yield on the resolution to the Senate, ready to leave the government. “There are others who create problems, not us,” underlined the “Contiano” minister Stefano Patuanelli. The farewell of the Dimaian patrol to form the group “Together for the future” worries the Democratic Party: “Make sure that the clash does not fall on the government and on Italian foreign policy”, is the message delivered by the secretary Enrico Letta both to Conte both in Di Maio, while Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda openly celebrated for the internal tear in the Movement.
Di Battista, ignoble betrayal to govern with everyone in comfortable armchairs
Di Maio’s choice was criticized by Alessandro Di Battista. “A movement born to govern with no one has the right to evolve and govern with someone (maintaining, of course, the majority in the council of ministers) to bring home results – he wrote on Facebook -. He has no right to rule with everyone to bring home comfortable armchairs. It is called ignoble betrayal. No sense of responsibility. Perhaps now, and only now, some activists of the Movement are understanding the reasons for my past choices (and also for what I said in the past). But, in fact, it is the past », he added.