He showed himself on board a hearse and did it on social media, to comment on the votes of the Assembly of members of the 5 Star Movement. The protagonist of the video, uploaded online, is Beppe Grillo: «I speak to you as the current guarantor and guardian of the current values of the M5S. Values that have disappeared in these three years. All my projects that I sent to the Wizard of Oz were never accepted. He was no longer available to me». The video, entitled “I am optimistic”, was uploaded to his Facebook page. The Wizard of Oz he is talking about is Giuseppe Conte. «The values have been betrayed», he adds. Then, an appeal to voters: «Less than half of the members voted, but I have a doubt. You have already decided and I have already lost, I know. But I am optimistic because this Movement had an extraordinary identity».
Referring to Conte, he added: "Oz's way of behaving was the winning card to disintegrate the Movement in its identity. Conte suffers from a compulsive syndrome of mirror repetition. Seeing this symbol represented by these people makes me feel uneasy. Make another symbol, go ahead and do your things. The Movement is dead, but it is compostable. The humus inside is not dead."
"We - Grillo continues - are what we expected to be. We are here. I have an idea that I will reveal to you later. But it doesn't end here. Go vote, otherwise you'll go mushroom hunting. I won't be offended, I don't even know you anymore. But try to think that this Movement will have a different and wonderful course, whether you are there or not". The guarantor also targeted the movement's numbers, which "has dropped from 25% to less than half. The M5S has dropped from 25% to less than half. And I am accused of being the father of domination". "Casaleggio and I - he explained - have never had the qualifications to be ministers or anything else. And then the M5S has transformed itself into a progressive little party, with these little games that not even the DC played twenty years ago. I support the PD candidate in Liguria and Emilia and you support the 'ch'aggia fa' with the buses and the escort in Campania. These little games here, have transformed this little party into nothing. There is nothing left."
(Unioneonline/vf)