How the 5-star war between Conte and Di Maio will end
What do the newspapers write about the cold – or hot? – between Luigi Di Maio and Giuseppe Conte. The Scratches of Damato
There is a certain waste of adjectives to define the ongoing war under the five stars between Luigi Di Maio and Giuseppe Conte, in chronological order of attacks, on the management of the race to the Quirinale. Which ended with Conte's retreat on the confirmation of President Sergio Mattarella after having tried ruinously to launch the candidacy of Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, head of the secret services and former secretary general of the Farnesina. Dove Di Maio, foreign minister, wanted to meet her with lots of photos to express solidarity and so on.
Conte, whose main objective was to prevent the election of Mario Draghi by supporting – unlike Di Maio – his irreplaceable status at Palazzo Chigi, believes that he has played his game well. So he reacted to the driving defect challenged by the now internal rival, threatening a substantial showdown. To which the other, accepting the challenge, responded by resigning from the presidency and from the guarantee committee itself to be more free to fight. A gesture "due", commented Conte, relaunching in turn and then releasing an interview to the Press and the XIX Century to warn the challenger that "no one is indispensable" to the Movement. Where as a boss he will not let himself be "worn out", perhaps waiting for a negative result in the spring administrative elections. That Di Maio is suspected of waiting to oust him in time before next year's political elections and the consequent preparation of the lists of candidates for the new Chambers. On which the control of the next will depend, albeit very small parliamentary groups both for the progressive decline of the pentastellated votes in the tests of various levels and in the polls, and for the strong reduction of seats desired by the same Movement and allowed by the allies who alternated to the government with it in this legislature.
Beppe Grillo, the absolute guarantor of the Movement for being its surviving founder after the death of Gianroberto Casaleggio, first spoke out in favor of Conte already during the Quirinale match, supporting the anomalous candidacy of the head of the secret services, unprecedented in the countries Western or free, at least those with the parliamentary and non-direct election of the head of state, and admonishing on his blog, with a mystical disguise, that "without a single voice there are only voices of vanity that dissolve into nothingness ". But then he stood at the window, from where he issued a long programmatic post, subtracting a little from Conte his role, to accelerate the passage of the Movement “from youthful ardor to maturity”.
It is a "cold" war, he wrote and headlined some newspapers. No, "hot," some others wrote. No, very hot, red-hot, "stellar", consistently with the name of the MoVimento, was the headline of the almost home newspaper directed by Marco Travaglio. To me it simply and modestly seems to be a mostly fratricidal war considering the contribution that the "unsubscribed" Alessandro Di Battista is giving from the outside, winking, at least, to Conte, although still too shy, according to him, in the containment action or contrast to Draghi. Fratricide, I repeat, recalling the times when Di Maio and Di Battista traveled together as "brothers", in fact, or to denounce the too high costs of Italy's belonging to the European Union, with its luxurious buildings, or to show solidarity with the rioters in yellow who upset Paris and, more generally, France.
Yet the Republic , the paper Republic, designed the "galaxy" of the 5 Stars as it was done with the DC and its currents, complete with the presence of the usual "bridges", who then decided most of the time the outcome of the games . We wish we were in those days …
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/guerra-di-maio-conte/ on Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:22:23 +0000.