Luigi Di Maio: "I was perplexed about the alliance with the Democratic Party. We lost half of our voters"

Luigi Di Maio, after the beating taken at regional elections in Umbria, unleashes: "It is no mystery that during the formation of the government myself I was quite puzzled"." All the voting analyzes say that half of our voters abstained due to the coalition with the Democratic Party. So the theme is ", he says in an interview with the Corriere della Sera. "Then I think we need great humility in starting up again. We must zero expectations and addressing regional as municipal ones with the spirit of those who want to give citizens an opportunity to participate ".

According to the political leader of the M5s, however, the government must move forward: "The approval of the parliamentary cuts, of the prison for the great tax evaders, the climate decree and the decree that stabilizes the precarious teachers convince me that if we are doing things for the Italians it is right to go on. I am of the opinion that we win and it always loses itself together and never as in this moment the Movement in its various parts agrees on remaining in government ".

For the future, he concludes, "going alone to the local elections has always been the position of the M5S: we are alternative to the parties, not complementary. The one in Umbria was an experiment, it did not work and I point. It looks ahead". Despite working with Franceschini and Zingaretti "better than we worked with the League," while with Conte there is the awareness "that a greater push is needed in the answers to be given to the country. Even on the subject of migrants, let me say, not if it can make an electoral theme. Let's face it: is there a problem? Yes. Should it be solved? Yes and we must not be afraid to say it, we cannot reach the paradox that to say that Italy cannot take charge of all the migrants who they start from the coasts of North Africa, they become a source of shame. You have to do the right thing, not the one that scares you least. It is not possible that Viking for the umpteenth time will always land only in Italy. "