(by Andrea Pinto) The Movimento delle Stelle may have come to a crossroads. Beppe Grillo's video launched on the web at the end of the year was emblematic: "he was digging a huge hole". A symbolic gesture, a hole to entrench, or a hole to definitively bury the grillismo?
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It is certain that Beppe Grillo has won his challenge, he has brought ordinary citizens to all the administrative offices of the country and even to Parliament. He would never have imagined, however, that the grillini would have molded themselves so quickly to the comforts of the Casta.
But now we have reached the “redde rationem”. Faced with a Beppe Grillo and Davide Casaleggio ever closer to the flattery of the Democratic Party, there is a consistent fringe of parliamentarians who have never digested the political turnaround at 360 degrees and cannot bear to fulfill one of the constraints of the Movement's statute, part of their fees (300 euros per month) to Casaleggio Associati for the Rousseau platform.
After the expulsion of Gianluigi Paragone, because he had not voted on the Budget Law, the order of the day would be the expulsion of at least 30 parliamentarians who defaulted on Casaleggio. A kind of purge to close ranks. Di Maio would like to clean up and surround himself with only loyalists to recover compactness and coherence. A call to a "new identity", because the Movement - as Grillo has repeatedly reiterated - "has changed".
A transformation project, writes the Corriere della Sera, which should take on sharper contours in March, when the General States of the M5S will be held. The group of loyalist ministers - from Vincenzo Spadafora to Alfonso Bonafede - has drawn closer. But many are asking for a change of pace. There are also disagreements within the 5S group in the government. The choice of facilitators created further discontent. In a twofold key. On the one hand, a good portion - there is talk of a few dozen elected officials (especially in single-member constituencies) - criticized the lack of meritocracy. The northern wing - to whom Stefano Buffagni, Luca Carabetta, Alvise Maniero refer - instead accuses the leader of having neglected the north in the name of too marked southernism. The loyalists of Roberto Fico and who have prominent elements such as the minister Federico d'Incà - at the moment hold an institutional profile and live a wait-and-see phase, waiting for the evolution of events.
Beyond the internal discontent, many think that in the event of a heavy defeat in Emilia-Romagna and Calabria "the end of the Movement will come". And also the decision to delegate the decision on alliances or on giving up to Rousseau was seen as "a sign of weakness" by the leader.
They would be heating up the engines for a new sovereign party, Gianluigi Paragone and Alessandro Di Battista (on 7 January leaving for Iran), always openly in contrast with the choices of the Luigi Di Maio movement.