Regionals, M5s will run alone in Emilia Romagna and Calabria – Politics

M5S MPs, in Emilia only with civic lists – "Today with the political leader of the 5 Star Movement Luigi Di Maio was a very positive meeting. We are all in agreement, both as parliamentarians and as regional councilors who have done a great job in these five years, in presenting ourselves alone, without making alliances with the parties, on the occasion of the next regional elections in Emilia-Romagna. It was also reiterated that the only alliances we will evaluate will be those with civic lists ": the Emilia-Romagna parliamentarians of the 5 Star Movement Stefania Ascari, Alessandra Carbonaro, Vittorio Ferraresi, Gabriele Lanzi, Marco Croatti Michela Montevecchi, Maria Edera Spadoni, Giulia Sarti, Maria Laura Mantovani, Carlo De Girolamo, Davide Zanichelli at the end of the meeting with Luigi Di Maio

Today's meeting with the political leader of the 5-Star Movement Luigi Di Maio was a very positive meeting. We all agree to present ourselves alone, without making alliances with the parties, on the occasion of the next regional elections in Emilia-Romagna. The only alliances that we will evaluate will be those with civic lists ". This is how Maria Edera Spadoni, vice president of the Chamber and member of the Emilia-Romagna parliamentary movement of the 5 Star Movement at the end of the meeting between parliamentarians and regional councilors from Emilia-Romagna and the chief politician Luigi Di Maio

The point – The strength of Luigi Di Maio is that the M5S at the moment seems to only be able to govern and try to do it well. But after the beating in Umbria the leader returns to the crosshairs of internal critics, a branch that according to some persistent voices within the Movement, could bring out a document of some tens of deputies, which at the moment is scarce of signatures, to ask for at least one downsizing, a sort of commissioner. But the Cold War in the MoVement also seems to involve Beppe Grillo and Giuseppe Conte, who bet hard on the alliance with the Democratic Party, even locally and are willing to keep the line. Di Maio instead says clearly "we can put ourselves with movements that work on the territory, not with other political forces". Hence also the decision, announced after a meeting in the Senate, to run the Movement alone at the regional end of January in Emilia Romagna. The divergence between the political leader M5S and the premier is latent – it is told in circles of the majority – even if Di Maio assures that he is "very proud to have given Italians a prime minister like Giuseppe Conte". Back even if you don't want to come back, Matteo Salvini has now re-launched the united center-right and then "after 14 months of government he left us with the match in hand of the VAT – affirms the Foreign Minister -, for me with him is over" . "With the Democratic Party you work better than with the League", concedes Di Maio, but in the Senate meeting with the representatives of Emilia Romagna and Calabria there are strong doubts about the replay of the Umbria scheme. While trying to come up with a strategy to end the succession of post-political 2018 defeats, the political leader of the 5s telle must face an internal dissent that is raising its voice. Among the few to openly ask for his resignation is Senator Mario Giarrusso, who speaks of "collapse" at the regional level and of "several steps backwards" by Di Maio with his 4 positions. In the Chamber the group tries to elect the president after two gray smokes and in the meantime the rumor spreads, relaunched by press sources, of a branch of fifty deputies, ready to sign a document. Hypothesis denied however by other sources.