A day of very high tension, with Mario Draghi leaving the NATO summit in Madrid early and Giuseppe Conte going up to the Colle to talk to Sergio Mattarella .

There is an air of crisis after the interview with sociologist Domenico De Masi, who reported a confidence received from Beppe Grillo according to which the premier would have called the comedian asking him to " remove Conte from the M5S , because it is inappropriate".

“Never happened”, denies Palazzo Chigi , but by now the case had exploded. Conte talks about something " disconcerting " and denounces a "serious interference".

The pentastellato leader and the premier only partially clarified on the phone, then Conte went up to the Quirinale to represent the " gravity " of the situation in Mattarella, in a meeting that lasted about an hour.

The premier is confident: " With Conte we will see each other as soon as possible , the government does not risk".

In short, the climate is far from relaxed and the feeling is that the pentastellati have reached the breaking point, they have found the pretext they need to leave the majority and prepare for these months of electoral campaign by the opposition.

In short, the climate in the Council of Ministers will be anything but relaxed. With the grillini ready to break if the requests on the issues for them priority are not heard, from the superbonus to the minimum wage .

“Up to now we have always supported and continue to support it with loyalty, fairness, not hiding the difficult passages for us, which cause us suffering. I was genuinely disconcerted - explained Conte talking about Draghi -. We have always pushed the government to be a protagonist in Italy and in Europe and we push it to be a protagonist in international fora of peace calls, aimed at solving the problems of Italians, for the expensive bills. Well, ".