“And now?” This is the question that is chased in the chats in an attempt to predict, together with the fate of the 5 Star Movement, the future of each of the “citizens” who joyfully entered Parliament three years ago. A political life ago. When the consensus was over 32% and M5s the first party. At that time, forcaiolo gambling prevailed, anti-system slogans, demonstrations against the Head of State. No doubt who the Chief was, the Chosen One. Giuseppe Conte was just an unknown lawyer with a clutch bag in his pocket as the main sign of distinction, in the literal sense of the term.
One phase has definitively closed
A phase that with Conte’s press conference at Hadrian’s Temple on Monday 28 June was definitively closed. That Movement no longer exists. Even if Conte and Grillo, as expected, will make peace and the former premier will become the new political leader of the 5 Stars. The change has already happened and the clash of these hours is only the confirmation. The paradox is that it was the Founder, Beppe Grillo, who triggered this process. The launch took place well before Conte’s investiture as leader in pectore on February 28 at the Hotel Forum.
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Grillo’s choice to impose Conte on Palazzo Chigi
The key day dates back to when Grillo set as a conditio sine qua non the stay of the people’s lawyer at Palazzo Chigi for the government agreement with the Democratic Party, which later gave birth to Count II. That’s where everything changed. Conte was hit by the reflected light of the Chosen one, becoming its natural heir. Certainly the former premier had won the stripes on the field, with the attack on Matteo Salvini in the Senate live on television. But without the presidency of the Council, that j’accuse would have been confined to a very small passage in history.
The illusion of the Guarantor of being able to manipulate the former premier
Instead Grillo stubbornly wanted Conte to remain at Palazzo Chigi. The Chosen One, like so many other leaders before him, was under the illusion that he could do and undo as he pleased. Conte was only one of the pawns to be moved on the chessboard, as had been Di Maio, who after 17 months was forced to abandon his role as political leader (coincidentally, he announced his resignation at the Temple of Hadrian …). Not that Grillo asked him. But nothing inside M5s happens (goes) if the Guarantor does not give (goes) his consent.
The bet on the lawyer
Since then M5s no longer has a political leader but a regent, the bureaucrat Vito Crimi. He has no longer won an election and his consensus has halved according to all polls (around 16%). This is why Grillo has focused on Conte. And the intuition was right. The management of the pandemic in the first 6 months of the yellow-red government raised confidence in the then prime minister over 60%. For Grillo it was the confirmation that the only way to save his political creature was to bet on the lawyer.