Who do we see again at Montecitorio… Now far from Italian politics, but still engaged as the European Union Special Representative for the Persian Gulf, Luigi Di Maio has returned to the Chamber of Deputies. “You are all here to ask me questions about the Strait of Hormuz, right?”, he joked according to Corriere della Sera and clearly referring to the event that took place that day: yet another exchange between Beppe Grillo and Giuseppe Conte.
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Returning to the former Five Star minister, Di Maio was in the Foreign Affairs Committee III chamber for his hearing. His return was a success: “Di Maio is an old friend,” commented Giulio Tremonti, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Many indeed went to greet him: “He was my minister during the Draghi government,” recalled former undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova (Mixed-+Europe). “I understood more today with one of his hearings than with 18 of Tajani,” joked the Democrat Enzo Amendola.
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Di Maio meets Fico years after the disastrous break. And asks him a surreal question…
Sometimes they come back. Together. Grill movements. We are talking about Roberto Fico and Luigi Di Maio, two original Five Star members…
Courtesies aside, the absence of the Five Stars did not go unnoticed. None of the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee came to listen to him: neither the Five Star leader Contené Francesco Silvestri nor Riccardo Ricciardi. The same who in June 2022, after Di Maio’s criticism of the M5S motion to stop sending weapons to Kiev, proposed his expulsion. In any case, after the hearing, Di Maio focused on the Iranian situation: “For the Strait of Hormuz we must continue to work for diplomacy, but also on alternative routes for energy, goods, and data because we cannot depend on a single Strait that is then used against us.”
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Luigi Di Maio celebrates his first forty years and breaks the silence after months spent quietly. The former exp…