The result in the end is the one hoped for, but the week of negotiations, second thoughts, hesitations and controversies not only stirred the waters in the center-right , it also opened the showdown in the 5 Star Movement.

Conte, defeated across the board by Luigi Di Maio, is at the center of a crossfire that could seriously endanger his leadeship.

Last night, when the name of Elisabetta Belloni came out, Di Maio shocked the former premier: "I find it unseemly that a high profile like that of Elisabetta Belloni has been thrown into the public debate. Without a shared agreement".

The former prime minister is aware of this and puts his hands on in the afternoon so as not to end up on the "grill". "I have never negotiated under the table" or "the game of three cards", defends himself from those who accuse him of having plotted with Salvini behind the allies of the Giallorossi coalition.

Negotiations which, moreover, have not led to any results, is the reproach of those in the Movement who, day after day, have begun to trust less and less the game played by their leader, starting to swell the ranks of the supporters of the Mattarella bis. And Luigi Di Maio himself, smelling the sinking of the Draghi hypothesis, was the record of the ever increasing votes, call by call, in Mattarella

The EX PREMIER - Conte knows this, and while putting his hands forward warns: "The time will come for internal clarifications".

Then he recalls that, with the exception of the female president, M5S "has achieved all the objectives it had set itself". He also tries to make his name - as indeed Salvini - the election of Mattarella who "has been made to grow in our community day by day", he says, stating that he has conducted the negotiations "with serenity, knowing that there was this option on the table. ".

DI MAIO - "Some leaderships have failed, they have fueled tensions and divisions: we must work to unite, to expand, politics in recent days has been a victim of itself", Di Maio said in the evening, the real winner of this match. inside the Movement. “Luckily this stalemate was resolved by Parliament thanks also to the contribution of the Prime Minister Mario Draghi.” “Even in the 5 Star Movement - is the tranchant conclusion - it is necessary to open an internal political reflection”.

GRILLO AND THE HAZARDOUS TWEET - Di Maio and Conte at the showdown, therefore, with Beppe Grillo in the background. Yesterday the founder was the first, exulting on social networks, to officially name Elisabetta Belloni. A risky tweet in the light of what happened later, which attracted not a few criticisms among the pentastellati.

(Unioneonline / L)

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