He was elected in the Five Star Movement, but then he began to migrate from one group to another in Palazzo Madama, changing destinations five times. Gianni Marilotti (Sardinian, 68 years old in July) on 11 November 2020 moved to the Mixed Group, then, in rapid succession, to the parliamentary formation “For the Autonomies” and to the Europeanists; on January 26 of this year he returned to the “Mixed” and then landed on March 30 at the Group of the Democratic Party. It is up to him the ideal guide of what some have called the patrol of “migrant” parliamentarians: the 46 deputies and senators who at the end of May appeared to have changed their shirts more than once.
Eight parliamentarians have changed “shirts” at least three times
From the beginning of the legislature to last May 31, as confirmed by the latest Openpolis survey, eight parliamentarians have changed groups at least three times. Among these, in addition to Marilotti, Mariarosaria Rossi, who was counted among the “loyalists” of Silvio Berlusconi, who passed through Palazzo Madama from Forza Italia to the Europeanists and then to Misto, and the former commander Gregorio De Falco, who had made his entry to the Senate in the Five Star rankings.
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Only between April and May 31 “transfers”
In just two months, between April and May 2021, 31 deputies and senators changed their location within the parliamentary halls. And also due to the birth of “Coraggio Italia”, the political formation of the Luigi Brugnaro-Giovanni Toti tandem that formed an autonomous group in the Chamber, 11 parliamentarians “escaped” from Forza Italia, where however Renata returned to Montecitorio Polverini (previously passed to Mixed).
Since the beginning of the legislature 259 “changes of jacket”
In just over three years of legislature, group changes were even 259: as also emerges from the photograph taken by Openpolis, 171 are those “staged” in Montecitorio, which saw 138 deputies as protagonists (some with multiple passages). In the Senate, however, “migrations” have so far been 88 and have involved 65 senators.
Over 90 parliamentarians fleeing the Five Stars
The formation most affected by the phenomenon of “parliamentary migration” is that of the Five Stars. At the end of May there were 93 elected members of the Movement who were transferred to other groups: almost two thirds to the Chamber (60) and the rest (33) to the Senate. To deal with the “revolving doors” of the Chambers were also Forza Italia (37 “defectors”) and the Democratic Party with 31 exits triggered largely by the birth, already at the beginning of the legislature, of Italia Viva.