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ROME. Luigi Di Maio leaves his house, from his Pomigliano d’Arco, in Campania, to launch the next three weeks of the referendum campaign on the reduction of parliamentarians. Next Friday it will be in Cernobbio and the weekend in Puglia. A route built around it, away from the party organization, to also support the M5S candidates in the regions and municipalities called to vote. But above all, aimed at taking a more decisive step on the path of returning to the leadership of the Movement, an issue on which – it has already been decided – an internal debate will be opened in the days immediately after the vote on 20 and 21 September.
The victory of the referendum is almost taken for granted in the Casa Grillina. As much as the weakness in the regions. Therefore, it is necessary to raise the stakes and Di Maio, a guest at the Giffoni film festival, addressing the «benaltristi» relaunches: «From now on, all those who have gone out to the field to say No say that we must cut the parliamentary salaries, so be it. We have been doing it for 8 years ». Almost a provocation, looking above all in the direction of the Democratic allies, who remained immobile in the middle of the river and increasingly divided on the position to take. This time the issue of savings derived from the cut is left in the background: “You have to give signs of sobriety and normality”, he limits himself to saying, perhaps forgetting the magnum bottles of sparkling wine uncorked in front of Parliament when the constitutional reform was approved . Rather, the focus is on greater “efficiency” of Parliament, freeing regulatory avenues from the ballast of micro-amendments promoted by each individual MP for their territory.
Di Maio reaffirms his political presence among the five stars. He is the only great player of the Movement who is spending for the Yes in the referendum, with Crimi, Paola Taverna, Alessandro Di Battista, Davide Casaleggio, all immobile and silent. He moves to fill the power vacuum that remains, always away from disputes between parties. This mosaic that redesigns its role has been enriched, in recent weeks, with another piece. Another tour, this time virtual, with which he will explain to entrepreneurs from all Italian regions the new tools that his ministry makes available with the “pact for exports”, the project launched three months ago with great fanfare at Farnesina. He will leave Padua on Wednesday to meet with businessmen from Veneto and Lombardy, and another nine appointments will follow, he studied together with his friend Pasquale Salzano de Pomigliano, number one of Simest, the subsidiary of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti that promotes investments of Italian companies in the Exterior. The end of the cycle of meetings, set just two days before the vote, is a coincidence that has raised some perplexity in the opposition: “They run electoral campaigns exploiting institutional connections. If I were him I would be ashamed, ”says a The impression the leader of the Lega in the Senate Massimiliano Romeo. “But wasn’t he the one who preached the distinction between government and party activities?” The Farnesina staff reject all the accusations and specify that “in the face of the crisis, no time can be wasted, exports must be relaunched.” So not for the referendum. In any case, for leadership.
