The front within the 5 Star Movement is expanding against the declining leadership of Luigi Di Maio. Opponents are presenting him with the account of the defeat remedied in the latest government crisis, in which he was for a long time poised between the alliance with Salvini's League and that, reluctantly accepted, with the Democratic Party and in which to give the cards it was him but the founder Beppe Grillo who repeatedly lambasted him.
Yesterday, in a tumultuous assembly of pentastellati senators, a group of rebels, led by Senator Emanuele Dessì, presented a document signed by out of 107 senators asking for a management committee of 10 (with the group leaders and Beppe Grillo) and a meeting to change the statute, but above all the liquidation of Di Maio as political leader being often busy outside Italy as foreign minister and as happened yesterday for the UN assembly. The dissidents no longer want a single man in charge of the Five Stars and they leverage the critical, albeit different, positions of Grillo, Fico and Di Battista.
In the anti-Di Maio frond there is the president of the Anti-Mafia Commission, Nicola Morra, but also former loyalists of the pentastellato minister such as the former minister Barbara Lezzi and Michele Giarrusso, who have not yet metabolized the exclusion from the government. "No more one man in charge, more collegiality is needed" it is the common thread that unites Di Maio's opponents who have also targeted the discretionary management of Davide Casaleggio's Rousseau platform, which has always been in line with the Foreign Minister.
Di Maio's supporters parried the blow in the Senate with difficulty, where Danilo Toninelli's candidacy for new group leader risks throwing more fuel on the fire, but the battle is only just beginning and now the battleground moves to the Chamber where the opponents of the Foreign Minister will make themselves heard under the protective shield of the President of Montecitorio, Roberto Fico, and in conjunction with the growth of the premier's political leadership Giuseppe Conte whose shadow envelops Luigi Di Maio more and more every day. “Luigi knows it too – the honorable Riccardo Ricciardi told Il Foglio, in the running to become deputy group leader of the Five Stars in the Chamber – that if today we asked Rousseau to indicate our candidate for prime minister, two-thirds would vote for Conte”. Clearer than that.
