PARMA – The deputy Giulia Sarti smoke in the hotel courtyard Villa Ducale, headquarters of the Open Day organized by the mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti. Around her are four journalists that surrounded him, they ask whether you agree with the method used by Grillo to eject Paola Pinna and Massimo Artini (accused of not having paid for a few months of their salary, as provided in the Articles of the Movement 5 Stars). After a few questions, the Tailors blurts out these words: “Beppe Grillo is the owner of the symbol, if it considers that they have violated the rules can take it off whenever he wants. He has already done. The problem is at the source.” “So we should remove the name of cricket by the symbol” ?, asks a journalist. “Of course, you will have to discuss this too,” replies the Tailors. The first real news of the day came during a cigarette break.
Before Sarti had spoken Federico Pizzarotti and his sentences are finished quickly in the titles of almost all sites news: The mayor said that with the appointment of the five MPs of the “directory”, Grillo has taken a step back. That we must reconsider the expulsions, because you can not think of having lost forever parliamentary and capable administrators, who have spent when the MoVimento worth zero. Pizzarotti also used more conciliatory tone: he said that before the Open Day was heard with Louis de Maio, the most moderate of the five parliamentary directory named by Grillo, and that together they spoke of a great assembly to meet and discuss for once, all together. And most important (reiterated on several occasions), which does not intend to leave the MoVimento and create a current of minority.
tactics fist, followed by the caress, was the constant most of the statements of politicians of 5 stars, present yesterday in Parma. So much so that at the end of the evening a journalist sitting in the interview room improvised in the hotel, asked: “But then there or not ‘is frond of dissidents”? The Open day of Parma had been presented by the press as the first formal meeting of parliamentarians and administrators critics with the leaders of the Movement 5 Stars. And there was some reason for thinking: among the guests stood Massimo Artini, just expelled, who has given package last; you knew that Grillo, Casaleggio and the five parliamentary directory have declined and that in the end, together with activists, politicians would come only expelled (Maria Mussini, Maurizio Romani, Alessandra Bencini, Laura Bignami and Bartholomew Pepe and former adviser Regional Andrea Defranceschi), or considered dissidents (among others, Giulia Sarti, Walter Rizzetto Tancredi and Turkish). Behind the scenes of the press, this group could split from MoVimento or even share of the measures of the Government Renzi.
If this was to be the “frond”, the answer to the question of the journalist, probably is “no”, and for several reasons. What Pizzarotti is a vocal critic of the Movement is known from 2012: just elected, the mayor wanted to appoint General Manager of the City of Parma Valentino Tavolazzi, expelled by Beppe Grillo. Before the Open Day between the two there were several controversies, particularly on the incinerator in Parma and on the management of candidates for the European elections and – last in chronological order – on the appointment of the Executive Board.
Even the phrase on the back step of Grillo (in which the comedian responded with a blog post in which he says he made a step forward and be “more alive than ever”) must be contextualized : Grillo was just a few days before, to say they are “tired” and pass the baton to his MPs. And it is undeniable that the comedian, recently, has moved away from politics during the election campaign for the regional not done and see only the day before yesterday, December 6, announced that between March and April of 2015 will leave for a world tour (United States, Australia, Germany, France), with his new show “The Diviner”. Finally, the very fact that an important issue such as the symbol of the Movement has been raised in an informal setting, during a cigarette break, and not from the small stage set up in the hotel conference room, in front of about 350 activists and the cameras that transmitted debate stream, speaks volumes about the real desire to split the MoVimento.
After the bad results obtained in the European elections of May (when the slogan #vinciamonoi was transformed into #vinciamopoi ironically), after the recent defeat in regional elections (400 000 votes less than the European) in Calabria and Emilia Romagna (where it began the rise of the Movement), after the expulsions – criticatissime – two Deputies, Massimo Artini and Paola Pinna, those of yesterday seemed little more than pinpricks. To which Grillo responded the same way.
Even the mood of the “base” (many local activists, someone came from outside) seemed in line with those of the politicians. The majority of those present in Parma agreed in saying that there is a problem of internal democracy that must be resolved, that we must start from the territory, but that basically the Movement 5 Stars is still the only real alternative to the ” caste “and the only solution to save the country. “These five parliamentarians of the Executive who put them there? The base, or Grillo and Casaleggio? “Says Francis, an activist of Foggia. “We need to understand if we are still a horizontal movement, where one applies one, or if we became a vertical movement. I am a little ‘disappointed, but I will continue to vote the MoVimento. Also because you’ve seen what’s going on in Rome? “.
How to Grillo, opinions are quite net: set it aside – they say – it would be a mistake, because it MoVimento would deprive the megaphone that allowed him to get where he is now. “But you have to let it work more MPs” says Roberto, an activist of Parma. “Speaking only through the blog does not do more. We have to send our kids around, in the squares, on TV, talking about content, what they do every day in Parliament. He is right when he says that the time Pizzarotti receipts is over. “
As a spin-off no one is talking. In fact, someone is angry with reporters:” It is you – says Federica – that we want to split. We are here only to discuss problems that are normal, since the MoVimento was born recently and has had a huge and unexpected explosion. Look at this, but you seem normal that there are all these journalists? “. In fact, there were 90 journalists and 350 participants, one in four. So much so that Pizzarotti, approaching the table of the final press conference, he said: “Who is Obama?”
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