Il Movimento 5 Stelle will become part of the majority which supports the new government led by Mario Draghi. Voting on the Rousseau platform - which was attended by 74.537 voters - ended with a victory for Yes to the new Executive with a percentage of 59,3% (equal to 44.077 votes) against the 40,7% of No (30.360 votes).
Little curiosity: in 2018 the contract with the League for the yellow-green government was approved with 94% of the votes in favour. The following year, the agreement with the Democratic Party for the creation of the Giallorossi government passed with over 80% of the votes in favour.
With the yes of the activists who voted for Rousseau, the last obstacle to the formation of the new Executive also falls, also because, under the Five Star statute, the vote becomes "binding" even for those who voted NO. Tomorrow the prime minister in charge should go up to the Quirinale with the list of ministers, while the oath could arrive on Sunday or Monday.
"Do you agree that the Movement supports a technical-political government: which provides for a super-Ministry of Ecological Transition and which defends the main results achieved by the Movement, with the other political forces indicated by the president in charge Mario Draghi?". This the question text voted by M5S members. A question that has created quite a few controversies within the party, both because the way it was formulated made it difficult to say No, and because it did not provide for the possibility for the party to abstain.
The victory of the Yes, in any case, was considered the most probable, especially after the endorsement of the big names of the Movement – from Luigi Di Maio to Roberto Fico and Lucia Azzolina – and the endorsement of the outgoing Premier, Giuseppe Conte, who declared yesterday: “If I were a member of Rousseau, I would vote yes to the Draghi government”.
The opening of the founder and guarantor of the Movimento 5 Stelle was also decisive Beppe Grillo, who despite not having taken sides on the vote, was the mind and arm of the negotiations with Draghi. In a long video published after the consultations, Grillo defined the prime minister in charge as "one of us". The turning point for Grillo also came thanks to a phone call during which the former president of the ECB agreed to the creation of a Ministry for Ecological Transition inspired by the French model.
Alessandro Di Battista, leader of the opponents within the Draghi government, is not there and announces the split from the Five Stars but the break should be numerically very limited.
