Conte and Movimento 5 Stelle, a “blameworth” crisis to hide their failures

And so, again, Italians find themselves wondering why theyet another government crisis. Less than a year and a half after the inauguration of the Draghi government – in the midst of an international nightmare scenario – a crisis has taken off daughter of the breakup of the 5 Star Movement, the largest parliamentary group, its (never born) leadership and the almost psychological resistance of its elected representatives. In this sense, really, this midsummer autodafé gives the most crystalline image of what Italian parliamentarism represents and ofimportance of groups in palacesmore than parties outside of them, sometimes with non-existent or Lilliputian consent.

The Rome waste-to-energy plant, by far the lesser evil to clean up a city structurally in a waste crisis and that has no other choices. Or the building superbonus 110%, which is causing very serious damage to the treasury, with losses of over two billion which are somehow considered “natural” in order to support construction and employment. Or again the minimum salary: in Italy it does not make much sense given the wide diffusion – around 90% – of collective bargaining which, perhaps, from that minimum hourly figure would even be weakened. Not to mention that half-done citizenship income, without a real network to provide work. Giuseppe Contewhich a certain empathy had gathered around him in the traumatic months of Covid, has put together these and other points to give birth to his seaside mess: to exploit “historical battles” that are no longer historical and whose failure is only on the shoulders of the 5 Star Movement in order to stop the bleeding inside and outside the assemblies.

Indeed, the it was Movement, which is no longer even so after the split of Luigi Di Maio. And which nevertheless consists of the Chambers of 104 deputies And 62 senators: the largest group in Palazzo Madama, even if with only one seat, and the second in Montecitorio. But it is the last round of the carousel with these numbers: from the next elections they will come out, by the will of the same pentastellati, 400 deputies and 200 senators. Therefore, the balance of power will change, also based on the electoral districts (as well as the polls, which reward the right and bury the veterans Contiani). If there was a moment in which to try to raise one’s voice and embarrass the prime minister of the highest international level, perhaps it was this. From Salvini’s “full powers” to Conte’s “few powers”, still useful to kick the former European central banker, furious at the brawl between half-notches in which he found himself involved.

The calculation of the former people’s advocate was therefore quite legible, albeit lame. In order not to drown definitively, after the extinction in the administrative elections, it was necessary to tear up, try to neutralize the splinters of the Foreign Ministry, also trusting in the residual consent inherited from its second pandemic executive. Maybe not to the point of bringing down the government but so be it, the accident was perhaps in the bill: the mother of the Dragons is still the Parliament. For a few more months this Parliament.

Therefore a pretext was needed, any one, and the most contradictory has been identified: that Aid decree that instead the money in the pockets of the Italians tries to put them. And that yes, it contains the rule on the Roman waste-to-energy plant that perhaps could be excerpted and discussed separately, but which in no way justifies a government crisis except, precisely, framing it in the perspective of a last attempt at salvation from an electoral point of view. The last screams of a 5 Star Movement stuck in the can of tuna that he had to unhinge and that no one, from the outside, can no longer understand. Sad, lonely y final.