A meeting of the national council of the Five Star Movement should be held today. The meeting, according to what is learned from M5s sources, could be held in the evening, but it is not excluded that it may be postponed to tomorrow. The situation inside the Five Stars is close to exploding. The Contiani leaders of the 5-star Movement point the finger at Luigi Di Maio: “does he still represent us in the government as foreign minister or is he only representing himself?”. To ask without mincing words is Michele Gubitosa, one of Giuseppe Conte’s 5 deputies. And shortly after the other vice-president Alessandra Todde adds to the dose: “Speaking like this, he is placing himself outside the Movement.”
M5S, it’s the final match between Conte and Di Maio
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The contiani nsomma raise the barricades and trigger the counter-offensive in a movement now close to the civil war. And the specter of splitting. On the table of the national council there is the expulsion of Di Maio, but he prefers not to respond in kind to the accusations: “I am a collector,” he confesses when interviewed in Gaeta. But in his own way, he stings: «I have posed themes. If one poses a theme and a part of the Movement, especially some leaders, responds with hatred and attacks, it is a worrying drift ». It is the answer to the encirclement put in place by the most extremist wing of the 5S, which did not swallow the minister’s arrows. And he does not hesitate to say: “Di Maio seems to be playing a game of his own – urges Gubitosa – and it almost seems that there is a diabolical will to take advantage of the unsatisfactory electoral result to damage the new course of the Movement, of which he obviously does not feels more part “.
The clash in the Cinquestelle and the weapons of discord
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A breath from the tsunami, who knows if Beppe Grillo will be able to avoid it. The guarantor and founder will return to Rome in a few days. And he who knows if he will try to make peace between the two leaders or give the placet to the schism. After all, the cracks between the two fronts are not lacking and are getting deeper. The last one spoke out about no further sending of weapons to Ukraine. It would be one of the commitments requested of the government in the draft resolution on which some 5S senators would be working. It would be voted in the House on 21 June under the eyes of Prime Minister Draghi who will report to Parliament that day, before yet another European Council on Ukraine. The issue of the double mandate also worries – and divides -. For years claimed as the limit of the only anti-caste force, now the veto is wavering. And according to the gossips, the approach of the new legislature weighs heavily, which in a year will see a Parliament reduced by 2/3 due to the cut in parliamentarians, wanted by the 5S. Almost 70 elected members and several big names would be left out, including Di Maio. But Grillo insists on this and gives the line by remembering that the ceiling on the two mandates is “more and more appropriate”. The former political leader, hitherto possible on the third term, now seems to align himself with the guarantor.