M5S, Grillo in Rome sees Conte and tow exceptions to the two mandates: “We continue to support Draghi”

The limit of two terms for parliamentarians is not touched. Nor the Draghi government, which we “continue to support”. Beppe Grillo arrives in Rome and immediately makes it clear what his position is on two controversial issues that have been stirring the 5 Star Movement for several days. The party guarantor arrives in the morning at the Forum hotel – his traditional Roman home – and immediately receives a visit from M5S president Giuseppe Conte. The announced goal of the founder of the Five Stars – as anticipated by LaPresse – was to team up with Conte and share with him the next steps to relaunch the Movement. The two stay together for over three hours. Then the former premier leaves the hotel from a secondary exit avoiding reporters and cameras. Instead, shortly afterwards they intercept Grillo while he gets on board a taxi. Will he grant an exception to the limit of two terms? They ask him. And the Genoese comedian replies in his own way, with a joke: “With a tie.”
Always in his own way – according to what is told by those present – he then opens the whirlwind of meetings with the parliamentarians, divided by committees to which they belong: “Hug me”, the founder of the Movement would have begun, addressed to the participants, invited to leave their cell phones in an urn to avoid “distractions” and leaks. “We talked while we all sat in a circle,” says one of the parliamentarians, to whom Grillo would assure that he will be increasingly operative on communication, will have a greater role and will come to Rome more often, and that his blog is “available to better communicate your themes “. Then come the ‘bombs’ that everyone is waiting for: “No derogation from the limit of the two mandates”, the M5S guarantor would have said, guaranteeing that “if you believe it you must do it to the end, and I will not abandon anyone”.
Words that are read – as far as we learn – as the possibility of recovering the experience of those who are already in the second term in other roles within the new organization of the Movement. But Grillo’s stop is destined to stir the spirits again among the five stars. The hypothesis on which he was thinking at the top was in fact that of a “Cancelleri award”: to have the members vote immediately on the hypothesis of allowing specific and limited exceptions to the constraint; exceptions which, for example, would have allowed the Undersecretary for Infrastructure Giancarlo Cancelleri, already in his second term, to run in time for the primaries for the choice of the center-left candidate for governor in Sicily. Another problem to be overcome concerns the Draghi government, and the pressure that Conte is undergoing from several elected officials to get out of it. On this too, Grillo would have been clear: the 5 Star Movement will maintain its commitment with the Draghi government and “will continue to support the executive”.
The Rome waste-to-energy plant will therefore not be a pretext to break, neither the difficulties on the superbonus (on which a majority meeting is scheduled in the evening) or the attacks on citizenship income. All issues that the parliamentarians highlight to ask for greater listening from the government. A few hints to the great ex Luigi Di Maio, “no hard feelings for those who have gone” the founder of the five stars would have limited himself to saying. But it is the Foreign Minister himself, today the leader of Together for the Future, who attacks: “The Italians don’t care about the debate on the two mandates, especially when they find themselves paying their energy and gas bills,” he says, adding: “There are political forces who want to pick the government and then pay a price in the elections: those who cause instability lose” and “the citizens have rewarded those who loyally support the government”, because “the warning that it cannot continue to destabilize it. We must cheer for Italy, not against ».