Il Vaffa di Casaleggio with grillini: “Ungrateful, how would you do without me?”

“When I receive a phone call and no one speaks, I immediately understand who he is: Davide Casaleggio ”. Beppe Grillo, With this scathing and perhaps benevolent joke, he describes Gianroberto’s son to his friends. The silent stem under attack, the heir that nobody (or almost) recognizes in the M5 anymore. From the pawns who have become topical to demolish Rousseau’s totem and no longer pay the 300 euros to the association of the same name to the big names who in all public interventions and interviews, between the lines, send him messages on the platform that must adapt. in tune with the times and especially in the collegiate leadership of the Movement that simply does not go down in Casaleggio jr. “With a secretariat we become a party”, it is unleashed in these hours with his most trusted acquaintances, after that, like every Wednesday, this week Mr. Davide has also landed in Rome, to test the ground and (above all ) the same.
A bureaucratic agenda, but no big heavy meetings on the agenda: Vito Crimi, the House and Senate group leaders, the treasurers. Mysterious bombings, so much so that many parliamentarians immediately asked the secretaries of Montecitorio for information, after Davide’s silhouette was glimpsed as he went up to the offices of the M5s group: but who does he see? Who are you talking to?
The novelty of this pilgrimage, however, is another. Faced with the Di Maio, Taverna and Fico walls about the future of the M5, the president of Rousseau begins to show signs of anger. Not a violent explosion, but bursts of frustrations that may have settled. “Ungrateful” is the adjective that is addressed to those who, among senators and deputies, dispute the role of the platform. “The 300 euros a month – say those who gathered Davide’s anger and pride – are used to keep the cabin going, but no one knows these things: the preparation of the lists and their checks with the certificates, the management of the platform, the association employees “. And in their place are those … as Emanuele Dessì, the ambidextrous arm of Paola Taverna – I would like to separate the M5s from Rousseau, regulating the relationship with a service contract. In short, a split of destinies. With a rate calculated on the number of elected officials, therefore destined to decrease with the reduction of parliamentarians. Casaleggio, as he moves between the palaces of power that greet him with distrust, is angry. And lately, more and more often, he meditates on the sensational gesture, the great vaffa at all. “I would like to see how all those who criticize me would carry on with the Movement without us. I would like to see”.
Threats and outbursts. “It would be a rock ending, ”says Max Bugani. Already a very close collaborator of Gianroberto, on a stage that is too, too pulpy. And yet the desire to send the “ungrateful” to hell is there, and how. “Davide has now been reduced to being the sponsor of a ghost: Alessandro Di Battista. Without understanding that at this point we are all going, and we are going, in another direction ”, say the faithful of Luigi Di Maio.
In between is the war to change the status. With the anti-Dibba who fear the bombing of Rousseau to vote the confirmation of the political leader against “the political office”, as Vice Minister Stefano Buffagni calls it, which touches the mediation between the founder’s son and the rest of the troops in revolt , with generals in tow. It is clear to everyone that the toothpaste has already come out of the tube. The buds light up, which is a beauty. The last yesterday in plenary session during the approval of the Simplifications dl: forty-five, between justified and not, marked a visit, and even four voted against. Not too prominent names (Andrea Colletti me Fabio Berardini, also intervened in the group’s dissent, ed Elisa Siragusa, elected abroad), except that of Marco Rizzone, the Genoese deputy overwhelmed by the case of the INPS bond of 600 euros. He seemed to have to abandon his fellow M5s and instead, upon his return from summer vacation, he found himself sitting with them, amid general shame and disbelief. To say of a party that is no longer even capable of expelling its boys who are wrong.

All this, however, on the eve of a very likely chalk. Because, apparently, a handful of deputies, pushed by the Apulian Francesca Troaino, disappointed by the lack of agreement with the Democratic Party in the regionals, would organize an event on September 22 to announce their departure from the Movement. The chaos is such that not even in the mother of all barbecue fights it has been possible to summon the different big names of the M5 in a single place: that next Saturday, at the end of the referendum campaign for the cut of the parliamentarians, will be scattered throughout the ‘Italy. But Casaleggio will stay home.