The challenge between the former prime minister and the EU envoy: between accusations of betrayal and written memoirs, the definitive decline of the epic 5 Star Movement.
Once upon a time there was the “vaffa”, the purity of the Movement, the claim to open Parliament like a can of tuna. Today, apparently, of those 5 stars only the burning smell remains. The quarrel between Giuseppe Conte And Luigi Di Maio it is not a simple schoolyard disagreement, but the photograph of the failure of a political experiment that brought the country to the brink of the abyss. It is the story of a “people’s lawyer” (and who else?) and a Neapolitan boy who, after sharing the spoils of power for a couple of years, are now biting each other full of mutual resentment.
Di Maiowho for years embodied the more docile and governmental – read: armchair – version of grillism, today discovers that transformism has a price. Countthe former prime minister who came out of nowhere, desperately tries to save his populist narrative from a Movement that along the way imploded under the weight of its own contradictions.
The book of discord and the poisons of Giuseppi
Seeing them slaughter each other is a spectacle, of course. But also an infinite sadness. Take Giuseppe Contethe man who passed with the ease of an acrobat from sovereignism pushed with Salvini to progressivism pushed with Schlein: he decided to give us a history lesson with the book A new spring. A title that is already a whole program: after having frozen the country with his own Prime Ministerial Decree and the bonuses pour in, he now claims to be the gardener of the Italian rebirth.
But in its volume, more than flowers, poisons appear. Giuseppi points the finger at the “conspirators” – Renzi, Guerini and, of course, the former protégé Giggino – guilty, according to him, of having stolen the prime minister’s seat from him to make room for Dragons. On the other side we have Luigi Di Maiothe former “political leader” who today observes the world from the golden rooms of Persian Gulf on behalf of theEuropean Union. Someone who, between tea in the desert and an honorary professorship in London, still finds time to get angry because Countin his book, he wrote “falsehoods” for which he accuses him of “victimism” and a “terrible lapse in style”.
The theater of the absurd and electoral decline
The former prime minister is annoyed because he no longer occupies the halls of power and tries to accredit himself as the new “federator” of a broad field that exists only in numbers that cannot be added together; Di Maiofor his part, tries to build an image of an international statesman, forgetting that he promised to abolish poverty from the balcony of Palazzo Chigi.
We are at the theater of the absurd. Count accusation Di Maio of having betrayed him; Di Maio accusation Count to lie to sell a few more copies. In the middle there are the Italians, who would gladly do without these banquet squabbles. This is the end of an epic and poetic narrative – the Grillina revolution – of a company of improvisers who believed themselves destined to govern forever and who today find themselves arguing about nothing.
They have done incalculable damage to the country, among citizenship income unproductive and sailed in stormy seas with a broken compass. Now, fortunately, that little theater has closed but the surviving actors cannot rest over the fact that they are no longer at the center of the stage. They were worth double the PD now they are struggling at about half. How it was possible to dissipate so much credit in the book of in such a short time Giuseppe Conte there isn’t the slightest trace. And I bet it won’t be a swallow – the victory in the referendum on Justice – that will bring about the spring.
