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It's now a week of fighting between the Italian League government and the Five Star Movement (M5S), which is on the verge of collapse. Two proposals, which defended each of the allies by layer and sword, were adopted by Parliament and the approval of one and the rejection of the other were perhaps the drop that broke the glbad in the lingering conflicts between the two parties.

The law pbaded by parliament on Monday was the decree on security, which had been proposed by the right-wing interior minister and league leader, Matteo Salvini. It establishes, among other things, a set of rules aimed at containing immigration from Africa and that the minister considers as one of his main battles. It also indicates that it will be the Minister of the Interior who will decide the issue and that ships that violate Italian territorial waters in order to land refugees rescued at sea will be fined from 150,000 to one million dollars. # 39; euros. The League and Salvini were chosen for obtaining the approval of this law, clearly thanks to the help of the M5S and the right-wing parliamentarians.

A day later, one wondered whether or not to continue with the so-called TAV, a high-speed rail network (and tunnel) that has already begun and will link Italy to France. The M5S has opposed the continuation of the TAV for years but during the parliamentary vote, it was rejected. The work will continue because, according to the defenders, it would cost more to Italy to stop building than to do it, because it should pay fines to a millionaire.

These are the two facts that unleashed hell. "Something has been broken in the alliance for some time," Salvini said. In fact, Salvini seems rather interested in overthrowing the government and participating in new elections, since his party, as shown by the recent regional and local elections, has won many votes throughout the country. According to some forecasts, it could be the first match of Italy if elections are immediately organized.

Instead, the M5S goes through an opposite process. When he came to the government in 2018, it was the party that had the relative majority in Parliament and still has it, but in the real world, in the eyes of the people, it has lost a lot of votes. witness the previous regional elections. And especially the European elections of May. In the regional regions of February, the center right swept the Piedmont, Abruzzo, Basilica and Sardinia and the M5S was placed after the center left. In European countries, the same thing happened: the League first, the Democratic Party (center-left) and the M5S.

In the national elections of March 2018, the M5S was qualified as the first party with 32.2% of the votes, against 17.6% for the League. Going immediately to the new elections could mean a slaughter for the M5S. According to some polls, over the past few months, the league has obtained 36.6% of the voting intentions and the M5S 18.2%.

The suspicions of a serious crisis of government also stem from what happened this Thursday: meetings of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, with Salvini and Di Maio, meetings of Conté and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico ( of the M5S)), separately, with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

And referring to the non-existence of the parliamentary majority that had previously the two allies, especially when they agreed on the proposals, Salvini wrote: "Let's go immediately to Parliament to prove that there is no more majority, as evidenced by the vote on the TAV, and quickly return the word to the voters ". "It is useless to go ahead with blows and fights, as it has happened in recent weeks. Italians need certainty and a government that does things. We do not want more parliamentarians or ministers, we do not want patches or technical governments. After this government (which has done so many good things) are the elections, "he added. And despite all the difficulties, Salvini did not miss the opportunity to make a political act in Sabaudia – a seaside town south of Rome founded by Mussolini- and under the tower erected by the Duce.

On the other hand, the Minister of Labor, Luigi Di Maio, did not want to show his weakness. "Difficult day, is not it?", Asked him the reporters at his departure yesterday, at the Chigi Palace, seat of the government. "I am calm, I work, I am paid to work in Italy."

At the end of the day, Di Maio seemed to have changed his mind. Responding to Mr. Salvini's request to go to the polls, he said: "There is a fundamental reform in September: the vote in Parliament for the reduction of 345 parliamentarians – today there are 630 deputies and 314 senators. It's a big reform. Let's vote immediately on this reform, then move on to the elections. It is an appeal to all the political forces of Parliament: let's vote for the reduction of the number of parliamentarians, and then vote. "

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, after long meetings with Salvini and Di Maio, decided, after 22:30, to speak, very angry with Salvini and confirming that he should be the one who appears before the Parliament to "justify in front of voters that they believed in the possibility of a change, the reasons that led him to abruptly interrupt it ". "My government worked, I was not on the beach," said Conté in a tacit allusion to the dozens of photos taken by Salvini with his fans in recent months on different beaches in Italy.