Di Battista, a political defeat in six points

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In his address to the States General of the movement, Alessandro Di Battista took up some of his beloved workhorses, thus fulfilling the role that he has long been assigned (with little recognition from his fellow travelers) of guardian of purity. original and stinger. towards a management group already well established in government for two years and more.

The reasoning of “Dibba” was carried out with a passionate and lively tone as is in the tradition of the character, and he placed six “guarantees” to protect (from his point of view) the coherence with the primitive approach of the political action of the M5S. : six points that are the true weak point of your speech, six points that are ready to crash against the rocks of concrete political action of your fellow party members, six points that are perfect for delineating a full-blown political defeat, which does not I would hesitate to define it as a textbook.

Let’s see them one by one, so that we understand each other.

The first is the revocation of the highway concessions to the Benetton family, an issue on which the government (actually, the governments) has been practicing verbal contortions for two years and a few months without having achieved any concrete progress. The war proclamations of Toninelli and Di Maio’s summer 2018 are easily available but reality says otherwise, for the simple fact that the game is technically very complex, due to the convergence of supranational interests that are anything but simple to adjust, due to the overlap of activities. of the judicial authority (who do their job, trying to discover and punish crimes) which makes the file at least incandescent.

The truth is that while Di Battista invokes the revocation of concessions without buts or buts, our “sovereign fund”, that is, CDP, is trying in agony to settle the matter through financial instruments that are revoked like Lady Gaga in a convent of Ursulines.

The second “guarantee” invoked is that of conflict of interest, both in the media (with explicit reference to the Gedi group) and in the banking system, where the controversial target becomes Pier Carlo Padoan, about to become president from Unicredit. Here Di Battista also beats Alice in Wonderland at a rapid pace, pretending to ignore a few centuries of established practices in the establishment around the world, starting with the one he sees competent people (including the aforementioned Padoan) taking positions. important. Or maybe Dibba thinks we can send someone to the Unicredit presidency by pulling them out of the phone book? I would also like to point out that there is no reference to the Mediaset-Vivendi affair, but I am sure it is a case.

Third is the issue of dual mandate, in which the state has relative unity of purpose in the movement. However, let’s face it: the elections are far away and the management team knows very well that there is no reason to address the issue before the fall of 2022. So for now everyone (or almost everyone) agrees with Di Battista, but this it happens more in public. and in private (so much so that locally we are already making exceptions, see the Rays’ candidacy in Rome).

The fourth point (the most incredible of all) is the peremptory request to go alone to the next elections. Extravagant request given that we are going towards a proportional system electoral law (therefore not inclined to a coalition mechanism), contradictory with respect to the efforts to find a dialogue with the Democratic Party for the administrative elections next year and also a little ridiculous for a political movement. that has easily passed from the government with Salvini to that of Zingaretti: that is why the M5S wants everything unless it is alone (regardless of the presentation of the lists).

In fifth place is the request for an electoral law without preferences: here there is little to say and that is why we go further, also because at point number six we reach the apotheosis.

Di Battista proposes a guarantee committee for the nominations, in which the movement directs and makes transparent every choice about the person made by the five-star ministers. Indication totally nonsensical since the members of the government are in their place “too” to choose the people, but above all completely inconsistent with what is happening, which sees Di Maio (and everyone else) perfectly at ease even in the activity in question. . And in any case, the idea of ​​a party expressing its own role in controlling appointments collides with any democratic and liberal practice.

In short, Dibba, are you there or are you doing?