The tension in the 5 Star Movement shows no sign of abating, after 15 MPs from the party founded by Beppe Grillo voted no in the Senate to trust the Draghi government, even after the endorsement of the movement's leaders and the favorable vote of activists on the platform Rousseau. The 15 "indicted" senators, the political leader of the 5-star Movement, Vito Crimi, announced on their Facebook profile, they were expelled: “They failed to fulfill the commitment of the spokesperson of the Movement who must respect the voting indications coming from the members. Among other things, the vote on the nascent government is not a vote like any other. It is the vote from which the majority that supports the executive and the opposition take shape. And now the 15 senators who voted no are, in fact, in the opposition”.
“For this reason – Crimi added severely – they will no longer be able to be part of the parliamentary group of the Movement in the Senate. I therefore invited the group leader to communicate their removal, pursuant to the Articles of Association and the group's regulation. I am aware that this decision will not please someone, but if respect is demanded for those who think differently, the same respect is due to those who set aside their personal positions and contribute to the work of a group that has no other goal than to serve the citizens and the country".
The decision comes after the 5 Star Movement has just founded a unique group right at Palazzo Madama, together with the Democratic Party and Leu (which in turn, however, has divided internally), the most faithful allies of the now former majority which however wants to give a political follow-up to the agreement and the common work carried out in the previous executive.
Attention now shifts to the Chamber of Deputies, where there were about fifteen dissidents who will now be expelled. The troops of the 5 Stars, who were the most numerous in Parliament after the 2018 elections, are thus dwindling: at the moment the numbers say that trust in the government is not in the slightest danger, but the sign of a split that could prove to be profound remains . And which, if nothing else, will have the merit of clarifying.
