September 19, 2024 | 9:35 PM
READING TIME: 2 minutes
“Grillo says he is not the owner of the 5 Star Movement but its father. Of course, he is the founder of the Movement, he had this meritorious work of launching the Movement… But dad can’t think of having a remote control in his hand and exercising parental control deciding what we have to see, because we are a community of adults”. Giuseppe Conte, leader of the M5S, said this, speaking about the clash with Beppe Grillo on ‘4 di sera’ on Rete 4.
“I hope the matter ends here – he added – If Grillo’s certified emails or formal warnings continue, it means that the lawyers will respond. I will not respond anymore. I have already said that this process is irreversible and no one can stop it. I don’t see any splits: a split occurs when there is no opportunity for discussion.”
The M5S president also spoke about the wave of bad weather that hit Emilia Romagna. “We must avoid – he underlined – what happened in the past, with President Meloni in boots ready to intervene in front of the cameras but then the compensations have not yet arrived and a lot of time has passed”.
“I heard Minister Musumeci shifting responsibilities to regional authorities or even passing the buck to another government ministry. This is something that should not be done. If I had done the same thing during the Covid pandemic, the country would have collapsed. We need to work at all levels: government, regions and municipalities”, Conte emphasized.
Then on Open Arms: “I do not wish condemnation on anyone, not even on a political opponent. But my positions on the Open Arms case, through the letters written, have been clear. Saying ‘I defend national borders’ is a fundamental concept. But here they were not land borders, they were maritime borders. And if there are people in critical conditions, we must intervene”.
“It was around mid-August. There were also minors on that ship. It was up to Salvini to allow the docking. Salvini already had the prospect of leaving the government, so he took a muscular tone”, added Conte, recalling the critical phases of the Open Arms affair.
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