The government majority is compacted, the 5 Stars are crushed

What happened in the government majority and in the 5 Star Movement

Behind the scenes, where not being a parliamentarian, he followed the negotiations between the majority groups for the final resolution of the debate on the communications of the Prime Minister in the Senate in view of the European Council this week, Giuseppe Conte managed to impose the adjective " broad ”to the involvement of the Chambers accepted by the government in the management of the international crisis caused by Russia's war on Ukraine. An involvement, however, within the framework of the mandate already conferred on the same government last March, fifteen days after the outbreak of the conflict, which allows the supply of military aid to Ukraine until December of this year, in the hope that in the meantime they will mature the conditions for the opening of peace talks for which up to now Putin has declared that he does not yet consider the "moment" to be ripe.

The parent company of the Senate grillina in the declaration of vote in favor of the resolution wanted to emphasize that adjective "broad", while the prime minister could not hold back a smile that appeared to more than one parliamentarian, rightly or wrongly, quite sarcastic. Hermetic, on the other hand, was the expression on the face of Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who had been sitting next to him since the opening of the session. Next to Di Maio, in turn, sat the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini, of the Democratic Party.

While waiting to see concretely the meaning and effects of the "broad" involvement of the Chambers in the framework of the decree law on Ukraine which allows – I repeat – even armed support until the end of the year, an acceleration of the process must be recorded of splitting of the 5 Star Movement promoted by the Foreign Minister with the constitution of autonomous groups both in the Senate and in the Chamber.

Unless you have second thoughts, the rumors about the consistency of the new groups allow us to predict that what will remain of the parliamentary groups of the 5 Star Movement could be less than the consistency of Matteo Salvini's League. In short, the famous "centrality" conquered by the Grillini in the 2018 elections would also formally end, when their movement came out of the polls as the relative majority party, even analogous to the DC of the many years of the so-called First Republic.

To push Di Maio definitively to abandon the movement, which he headed in the political elections four years ago, it seems that the attack received, moreover without even being named, by the pentastellate group leader of the Senate Maria Domenica Castellone in the declaration of vote on the resolution of the majority. The Foreign Minister was clearly identifiable in who – according to the group leader – had distorted the image of the Movement by complaining, denouncing and anything else temptations of misalignment from the Atlanticist and Europeanist position of the government.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-maggioranza-di-governo-si-compatta-i-5-stelle-si-spappolano/ on Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:10:23 +0000.