Squeezed between two walls, the infinite public housing blocks in the background and the horizon of the sea filling everything else, the view that opens from the Cep in Genoa seems to distance this neighborhood of the “outskirts of the outskirts” from everything: it is far After a few bends down there, the city center is far away, let alone the Rome of political congresses. Yet, it is precisely here that the story of the M5s began in some way Beppe Grillowho spoke in the “Night gray mouse” organized at the end of summer 2008 by the Pianacci club for the first time in public about the five-star electoral list project to make his blog a movement.
And it’s still like this here, after political parricide with which the new leader Giuseppe Conte last Sunday the M5s paraded once and for all in Grillo, and its relative legal counteroffensive of the same founder and (was) guarantor, that sooner or later the discussion returns to yet another twist in the history of the Movement. Debate open, by definition, to the thousand souls of the same complicated Ligurian political community: former Grillini of the first hour, figures close to the M5s that was, more or less orthodox neo-Contians. An ideal preview of the confrontation that the Ligurian Movement has already scheduled with the regional assembly next Saturday in Genoa.
From the Cep where it all began, to “measure the temperature” of the Movement strictly “from the outside” is Carlo Besanaa point of reference for Pianacci, a well-known name in Genoese civil society, never a member of the M5s but always considered “area” and above all the first organizer of the event which in 2008 started Grillina history. «Grillo himself did not imagine the extent of the bomb that was about to explode in his hands: it is inevitable that it ended like this», comments the ongoing war between Conte and the founder, who on Monday canceled the vote of the Roman Constituent Assembly which over the weekend had the definitive change of skin of the M5s is certified, even with the elimination of the figure of the guarantor, i.e. Grillo himself.
«After all, – continues Besana – the movements become something else when they enter the control room». «Without Grillo they would be nobody, but beyond the mistakes that anyone can make, they have shown neither gratitude nor a shred of respect for what someone who has some ideals can only dream of being able to do».
But he also spoke of “ungratefulness”. Flavio Gaggerothe historian dentist friend of Grillo, another “almost mythological” figure in the world of Grillo, who interprets the moves of the two leaders against is also a very fresh ex as Sergio Battelliparliamentarian of the “Savonese column” of the first M5s, five-star treasurer for years before leaving in the wake of Luigi Di Maio.
«Conte has transformed the M5s into a corporate convention, and without political magic I believe that no one will vote for you anymore – is his analysis – Grillo is only trying to leave it without a symbol, he doesn’t have the slightest intention of making relaunches or splits, but lately he got them all wrong: it was a mistake to start the legal battle, a clear communication was needed on his own political line, that of the original Movement”.
While awaiting the return of the members to vote on the questions formalized by the Rome congress last weekend, then canceled by Grillo a few hours later, on December 5th, a certain embarrassment about the agitated moment of the M5s also emerges from the Five Star leadership group local. Among the territorial representatives, the deputy Roberto Traversi the new regional councilor speaks of a “painful transition”. Stefano Giordano of an “epoch-making transition”.
Caution is preached, moreover, also because the regional assembly of the Ligurian Movement on Saturday at the Cap promises to be already tense. On the table there will be the reflections of the “changing skin” of the national party, but also the echo of the (discussed) choices made in the area in recent months. «Many are waiting for the local coordinators to assume responsibility, the Constituent Assembly does not cancel the 4.5 percent of the Regional elections, the result of terrible management at the top: – it stings Manuel Melesalready a candidate for mayor in Savona, among the most critical militants of the new course – must resign because they have failed in the process and the electoral result proves it.” In short, it will be a Movement that “has tidied up its house”, as he said Roberto Fico from the Constituent Assembly which marked the beginning of the new era, but there still seems to be a lot to do.
