Beppe Grillo goes down to Rome, brings together parliamentarians and reminds them of a simple, even banal truth: the movement is me. I created you, without me no one would have been here, if any of you have come to be a minister, a deputy, a senator, if you wear designer clothes instead of going to the local market as they did before, if there are still those stops him on the street to ask him for the selfie, that’s all you owe to me. Difficult to blame him.
But the goal of the Guarantor who has never guaranteed anything (the Cinquestelle have changed their minds on practically everything) they weren’t the parliamentariansi, souls in pain for their future (practically three quarters of them already know that in two years they will have to find a job) how much Giuseppe Conte, Mr. Nobody (politically) that three years ago the grillini found in an established Roman law firm and raised to the rank of statesman. The goal was him and the strange ideas he had made about the Movement. “Conte needs us and not us him”, recalled Grillo. Also in this case, hitting a thin truth but full of practical sense. Putting the people’s advocate against the wall. “If you want to stay with us you stay – was the subtext – but take your head off commanding, here the boss is me “.
tones were rough, those of the boss towards the subordinate, those of the head of the company towards a general manager, who remains an employee even though he is a manager. Grillo for his part was forced to use them because he had evidently realized that the Movement was getting out of hand, because the idea of his retirement in private life was little more than a joke put there to mock, because he understood that Conte was taking what was not his. He brought the church back to the center of the village, shadowing between the lines a divorce with the people’s lawyer, who at this point it would look more like a layoff.
It remains to be seen whether Conte will accept to act as a figurehead, a fake leader of the movement, to exercise a delegation that another graciously grants him, with limits set not by him. The dignity of a former prime minister and a self-styled leader in pectore would say no. But let’s remember that Conte has been a man for many seasons so far, he ruled with Salvini and then with Salvini’s opponents, he signed the decrees against immigration and then went to court to say that he knew nothing about the closure of the ports. There is no reason to think that this time too he does not put his head in the sand and do theyet another turn.
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