Time.news – ‘Calm chaos’ in the 5-star Movement where decisions are expected from Giuseppe Conte who, he continues to assure himself, will speak only on Monday. In reality, the voices inside tell of a seething of anxieties and tensions although this time the chats remain silent.
The Conte-Grillo phone call
A phone call between the former Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, and the Guarantor of the Five Star Movement, Beppe Grillo, did not help to bridge the distances that have been created in the last few days between the two and which concern, in particular, the draft of the new statute prepared by Conte. According to reports from those who spoke to the former prime minister, the nodes remain “all on the table”.
Spring, won’t you?
The bridges are at work and many are asking, and hoping, that the former prime minister does not force them to choose between him and Beppe Grillo.
After all, the ‘I am with Grillo’ becomes plastic in the group photo of some senators who last Thursday, when the Guarantor arrived in Rome, were immortalized with him. Because those in the Movement who went against ‘Beppe’, qualified sources point out, did not have much luck: as in the Conclave, if those who enter Pope leave cardinal in this case there is a risk of a further downgrade.
Thus, if on the one hand there are those who would advise Conte a ‘full speed ahead’, because giving in to Grillo’s requests would mean ‘losing face’ after the green disc obtained by the same co-founder on his hands free for the refoundation of the Movement, from there are others who push for a mediation solution, because otherwise we would lose both contenders. And in the event of a split it is not certain that the former prime minister can have most of the groups with him.
In the meantime, Grillo and Conte have not heard from each other, he assures himself, while Luigi Di Maio insists on unity: “The 5-star Movement is a splendid community. Together we have faced several phases, even the most difficult and complicated, but we have always overcome them using our head and heart. We give our best and remain united. The good that we all want for the Movement is the pillar on which to base our decisions.
On the table – even considering that no one would know the new draft of the Statute developed by Conte – two important issues remain: the first would be the difference of views between Conte and Grillo on support for Draghi, with the second more favorable. Then there is the ceiling of the two mandates: Grillo has announced that the members will vote, but the question remains an unsolved knot.
In short, waiting for Conte to indicate the path he wants to follow, the 5-star Movement seems to be at a real crossroads. Who knows if the ‘Phoenix Arab’ effect will work once again, again evoked by Di Maio last February at the end of a Roman summit with Grillo and the other big names in the Movement, when the former premier accepted the challenge
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