In the Chamber, yesterday, the 5 Star Movement’s electoral campaign for the next European elections began with a direct blow to the center-right and the Stability Pact, and another to Europe from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). , which Giuseppe Conte rejected, thus joining the positions of Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini. The path taken by the 5 Stars, according to Repubblica, is anything but linear. Despite the criticism directed at the Melonians in Parliament, the M5S must deal with the need to safeguard its political coherence and ward off any populist tendencies. Opposition to the ESM has been firmly declared, but the political strategy for the European elections promises to be acrobatic, with the risk of falling into ambiguity. June 9th is the crucial date for the 5 Star Movement, which aims to capitalize on maximum consensus to win the leadership of the opposition, challenging Elly Schlein’s Democratic Party.
But Conte rushes to Strasbourg “without a family”, after failing to forge an alliance with the Greens: it is the only Italian party with double-digit support that finds itself without a home in the European Parliament. A dilemma that will probably be faced later in the elections. The European 5-Star policy will be based on the conviction of being in the progressive and environmentalist camp, excluding any collaboration with the sovereign right. And after the vote against ratification of the MEE, dialogue with the Socialists and Democrats now seems like a hypothesis. Furthermore, the newspaper always highlights, refusing to join a political family in Strasbourg could make the Movement irrelevant.
As for the candidates for the European elections, the general framework of the Movement emphasizes that it is still too early to discuss names, with Pasquale Tridico’s already seeming certain. Then there is the issue linked to Alessandro Di Battista: even if his profile manages to gather support in the area of pacifism from the Grillino electorate, it seems that Conte does not want to include him on the list. Maybe his return will be too complicated?
Source: IL Tempo
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