There are four pieces of news. Beppe Grillo has finally understood that he gave birth to a monster and not a Movement, and is using his blog to make this clear to those who had incautiously followed him. The transformation of M5S by Giuseppe Conte from an anti-system force to a situationalist and non-values-based party, open to any compromise, especially with himself, is now irreversibly complete.
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The divorce from his creature, which had its final act in the Nova works of December 2024, when the people’s lawyer took away his symbol, brought the comedian back to his senses, and since then he has sporadically started saying sensible things again. Since there’s never an end to the worst, the descent into hell of the former ‘Elevato’ is burdened by the tightening of his bond with Danilo Toninelli, the least brilliant star of the grillino firmament in its golden age, now the only one remaining in contact with the founder.
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THE INTERVENTION
These considerations arise from the contextualized analysis of an intervention that appeared yesterday on Grillo’s blog, signed by Marco Bella, a former Five Star Movement MP and now a researcher at the Faculty of Chemistry of Sapienza University of Rome. The “Carneade” (an obscure figure, implying an unknown critic) takes issue with Sardinia, where President Alessandra Todde reigns. She was Undersecretary for Economic Development in Mario Draghi’s government and contributed to the law on renewable energy development, which on the island translates, or rather should have translated, into the widespread promotion of wind turbines.
Objective: to make the region energy self-sufficient and perhaps, one day, an exporter of clean energy. The point is that if in Rome she preached and governed in one way, in Cagliari the president acts and misgoverns in the opposite way. Sardinia is, in fact, also due to Todde’s responsibility, the Achilles’ heel of the broad coalition. Every time Elly Schlein and her companions attack the current executive over high utility bills, they are reminded that, where they govern, the left opposes renewables and, in the specific case of the island, they don’t even have an industrial plan for energy development. “Turbines do not consume soil except for their base, they do not irreversibly occupy land, they protect biodiversity, they do not chop birds, and if placed at sea, far from the coast, they do not even disfigure the environment,” writes Bella. “Renewables are essential to reduce utility bills,” Bella continues, “but Sardinia is the most backward Italian region on the subject.” This is because the council, as its first act, approved an eighteen-month moratorium on renewables and, as its second, established that no more than one percent of the Region’s territory, the most uninhabited in Italy after the mountainous Aosta Valley, can be used for the installation of turbines.
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NATIONAL CASE
The issue is not local, contrary to what one might think, and not only because expensive utility bills then reach all Italians. The Sardinian affair demonstrates two things. The first is that M5S has now completely abdicated its initial principles, even that of green politics, always one of Grillo’s fixed points. What matters, for Conte and his followers, is the management of power for its own sake, guaranteed by an iron alliance with the Pd, the party against which M5S was born. Yesterday, for example, Todde traveled to Porto Torres, where voting will take place tomorrow and Monday. The governor was on a mission to support the outgoing mayor, the Democrat Massimo Mulas, not only against the Lega member Ivan Cermelli and Sara Dettori, a non-political expression of the local community and the centrist and Sardist area, but above all against Loredana De Marco, the candidate of the early grillini, those who, winning in 2015, made the city one of the Movement’s first municipal strongholds. The second is the extreme difficulty of the broad coalition, when it wins, in synthesizing the various souls of which it is composed, often in contradiction with each other, and translating them into a sensible and complete government action.
As for Grillo’s torments and disappointments, a betrayed father in mournful and perpetual voluntary exile in Sant’Ilario, the Genoese grapevine excludes that the groans coming from his blog, which once had ten million visits a month and was among the most followed in Europe and has now shrunk by 85%, herald a return to the political arena. Beppe has painfully decided to reach into his wallet and sue Conte to get back the Movement’s symbol, but it is a matter of personal revenge and not a pre-election move. He leaves his blog almost at the mercy of the few followers he has left. His mind is mostly focused on Sardinia, but he is not troubled by wind turbines, but by his son Ciro’s appeal process for rape, after the first-instance conviction to eight years in prison. From that affair began the political end and personal downfall of the ‘Elevato’.
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