Rousseau once again affects the choices of Italian politics

"Since I am premier, I cannot remember how many regional votes there have been. It is not that every regional vote is a referendum on the government. The MS is going through a phase of transition and Luigi Di Maio has also said that he needs an internal renewal. So we have to give the movement a moment to complete this transition phase".

(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The comment by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on the latest events that have shaken the Italian political landscape. On the scene the vote of the base of the Movement that on the “discussed” Rousseau platform expressed the will to present a candidate to the next regional Emilia Romagna on January 26th. Totally in the opposite direction to the line of the leaders of the Movement who would have wanted to skip the exam in Emilia Romagna to avoid the certification of a failure that at each electoral consultation takes on increasingly evident connotations, given the continuous collapse percentages of approval, expressed by the voters . Therefore, go down to Emilia Romagna alone without making a ticket with the Democratic Party candidate Stefano Bonaccini, highlights a kind of unconditional surrender to the overwhelming power of the League which, thanks to the scenario that would be created, could win, without particular problems and sardines aside, in the "red" region par excellence.

Prime Minister Conte and the secretary of the Democratic Party, Zingaretti, directly went to the arena to help the situation that has arisen in the last few hours. In various fora they have stated that the vote in Emilia is not an exam for the government. It is certain that a victory of the cdx in Emilia Romagna will not make the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, sleep good nights.

The only thing certain is that the political leader of the Movement, Luigi Di Maio, comes out with broken bones at first sight or at least as his opponents think. Others, on the other hand, think that the appeal to Rousseau, whose outcome was in the area, was a pretext for the political leader to launch the new line, move away from the Democratic Party.

Indeed Di Maio after the result of the vote on Rousseau: "With the online vote the M5S told us in Rome there is the government, but on the territory there is the movement, and we cannot enslave the M5S to the logic of the government".

The president of the Chamber Roberto Fico, then immediately responded in kind: "A moment of important reflection on the movement is urgent, it can no longer be postponed".

The situation has become so shaky that Beppe Grillo had to go to Rome to try to consolidate the vacillating alliance with the Democratic Party. Even the Democratic Party was displaced by the vote on Rousseau and Zingaretti opened to dialogue with the League on the electoral law in the name of the municipality no to proportional: "The proposal by Giancarlo Giorgetti of a discussion table on these issues, to be activated as quickly as possible - said the secretary of the Democratic Party in a note - should not be dropped. We are against a purely proportional law. We need a majority system that helps simplification and the formation of clear and stable coalitions of government "

Zingaretti would like to converge for a double-shift majority to force the M5S to choose the front. Di Maio, on the other hand, with Matteo Renzi's side would like the proportional to seek the "third way". 

Luigi Di Maio has met in the late morning Beppe Grillo in Rome: "We agree on everything, we have denied the urban legends of these days". Beppe Grillo has ditto that in January there will be a new government contract with the PD.

 

 

 

Rousseau once again affects the choices of Italian politics