The break is final. The day after the expiration of the ultimatum imposed by Rousseau for the payment of the outstanding debt of about 450 thousand euros accumulated by the M5S, the roads separate definitively between the Movement and Davide Casaleggio. This was announced by the Rousseau Association in a post on the Blog of the Stars: «Associazione Rousseau changes direction. The choice is painful, but inevitable. In these 15 months we have constantly solicited the resolution of critical issues. For eight long months we have requested several times to share a common project with well-defined responsibilities and perimeters of mutual roles and we have concretely proposed a partnership agreement to strengthen and clarify the link between Rousseau and the Movement ». But “being together must be a mutual choice” and “this, unfortunately, did not happen”. «The movement is where the people are who respect its principles and carry forward its ideas. Rousseau will always be the home of these people »wrote Davide Casaleggio on facebook after the divorce.
“An open, secular and transversal space of active citizens”
Hence the intention to start “with a new project and with new protagonists”, even if it will not be easy, because “we will have to solve all the heavy economic and financial problems that have been placed upon us and find sustainability strategies for the future” . The goal is to transform Rousseau into «an open, secular and transversal space. A space to give a voice to all those who want to aggregate people around battles, themes or proposals. A space that has the ambition to create the largest “lobby” of active citizens ». And again: “We will work to build a powerful civic media that is able to activate, on the one hand, concrete actions of active participation and digital citizenship and on the other, to incubate those nascent civic compositions that will become protagonists of the political scenario of the future . “The situation is difficult and unjustly leaves a huge burden on our shoulders, but our mission will not stop,” assures the association. And he concludes: “Today we are on the ground, but we will get up because we are the Movement”.
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M5s: Rousseau not neutral, direct democracy will remain
The response of the M5s is entrusted to a press release on Facebook: “Direct democracy – we read – participation, the involvement of members in decisions do not depend on the single tool used but on the will of the M5S to rely on direct democracy, using digital tools as a priority. . This will remains unchanged, our beating heart is direct democracy, whatever the instrument used “. And again: «The choices of the Rousseau association highlight the latter’s desire to play an active and direct part in political activity. This will is incompatible with a “neutral” management of the instruments ».
Cig for all personal but platform remains active
In Rousseau’s post on the blog of the Stars it is also communicated the use of layoffs for the staff of the platform. “In the face of the enormous amount of debts accumulated by the 5 Star Movement towards the Rousseau Association and the decision of those who believe they are the governing group of the Movement to give the spokespersons a direct invitation to expressly violate the Statute of the Movement itself, omitting to pay, as early as April, the contribution established for the services provided, this morning we had to communicate to all the staff of Rousseau that we are forced to start the procedures for layoffs ».
The open scenarios
The split could be very insidious for the leader in pectore of the M5s Giuseppe Conte, given the proximity of Alessandro Di Battista to Casaleggio. The important news is that Casaleggio would finally have provided the list and data of the members to the pentastellated leaders but would still have denied the use of the software to make the necessary vote and change the statute and crown Count. The most popular alternative remains that of using another platform.