An own goal so the Five Stars could save themselves, but by voting in the majority (70%) on the platform Rousseau for the presentation of autonomous lists in the next regional elections – starting fromEmilia Romagna on January 26 and then in Calabria – are facing a historic defeat. The polls accredit them in Emilia with a consensus reduced to the minimum terms, i.e. between 4% and 6%.
The base has so sensationally disavowed the leader Luigi Di Maio, who had advised against the presentation of the Five Stars in the next regional elections.
Grillino's own goal will not have traumatic effects only for the Five Stars but it can cause damage also to the Conte 2 government and the Democratic Party, is likely to do lose the leadership of Emilia-Romagna to the Governor Stefano Bonaccini, which was in strong recovery and ago a gift as big as a house to Matteo Salvini's League and to all of the centre-right.
Let's start from the first electoral appointment: that of theEmilia Romagna. By presenting themselves in the regional elections, the Five Stars subtract a share of the votes from the Democratic Party, risking preparing the defeat of Governor Bonaccini, despite all acknowledging that he has governed well. But if the Democratic Party loses Emilia-Romagna, which is a historical stronghold of the left, it goes Nicola Zingaretti's secretariat in the Democratic Party is also in crisis and consequently the Conte government crumbles 2. All the more so since yesterday evening the other government partner, the Five Stars, and above all their current albeit shaky political leader, Luigi Di Maio, who comes out disavowed by the vote of the Rousseau platform.
A political earthquake is therefore at the door. The Five Stars pay for their contradictions and spill them over the entire political system. No one can say exactly how it will end, but one thing is certain: since yesterday evening, Italian politics has entered a new phase of turbulence and nothing will be the same again.
