“The fate of Movement it is not in the hands of Beppe Grillo“. Word of Giuseppe Contequestioned by reporters on the words of the founder of 5 Star Movement. Monday evening, at Fiesole, Grillo had dedicated numerous jokes to the Movement during his show “Io sono unaltro”. “I don’t know how he will end with Conte, he must understand that I am essential. Casaleggio and I had different temperaments, we argued several times a day but we created a wonderful thing”, said the 5 star guarantor, making fun of the European election results.
Statements to which the former prime minister now responds. “The fate of the Movement is not in Grillo’s hands, but in the hands of an entire community that will decide its future at the constituent assembly next September. This reflection has already begun. The joint assembly, the national council: they all spoke and therefore we deferred decisions to this constituent assembly,” he said With youinterviewed by journalists in Transatlantic. “From the single person is not essential – the leader then continued, quoting the adjective used by Grillo – What is essential is the community which is now made up of serious, mature peoplewho will decide his own destiny.” Precisely in the days following the European electoral defeat, among other things, Conte himself had met Grillo in Rome. “We talked for a long time. An hour and a half. We joked, laughed, I left him in great shape. Absolutely involved and lively. Then let him freely make the jokes he wants“, added Conte, quoting another passage from Grillo’s show: “Berlusconi got more votes when he was dead than Conte when he was alive”. The joke about “Grillino dragons“, however, is the one used by the founder to support the support of the 5 stars for the government led by the former president of the ECB.
But Conte doesn’t just reply to Conte. He also does it with Virginia Raggithe former mayor of Rome who al Corriere della Sera had dictated the need for the 5 Star Movement to return to its origins. “We quickly need a re-constituting phase. We must create an agenda, talk about issues and not about leadership or regulations. Starting again from our identity, from our methods and working on involving citizens in the management of ‘public affairs’, correcting what perhaps didn’t work, but without completely distorting ourselves”. Opinion not shared by Conte: “What does it mean to return to the origins? Does it mean restart, rewind? The the political and social context has completely changed. If you can’t interpret it, you’re increasingly out of it,” said the former prime minister. And to those who asked him if the camp chosen by the 5 stars was the progressive one, Conte replied: “Absolutelythen if anyone has right leanings draw the consequences.”
