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January 12, 2020Do you leave or not leave the leadership of the M5S? "I am thinking of defining the next steps for the March General States". Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio says it in an interview with 'La Stampa'. "I can't answer on a fake news read in a newspaper. Let's say more than anything else in these days of international tensions, the M5S should be very focused." On the possibility of leaving the leadership of the Movement he adds: "Being a political leader is not a simple thing, it seems that I enjoy working non-stop. I love the M5S. And in any case I was only a candidate in national elections. Having said that, States General are working to understand exactly what is not working at a regional level. If three people sign an ok document, I respect them, but don't tell me that it is what the base is asking for. In M5S the members have always decided. people who contest this method forget they are in Parliament thanks to it. Before it was fine and now it is not? ", adds the political leader M5S.

But the intolerance in the ranks of the pentastellato continues to grow, and other representatives say they are ready to leave the Movement if Di Maio does not take a step back.

Giulia Grillo: enough with Di Maio or you change or I'm leaving
"Either you change your mind or I'll leave M5s because a change is needed", says the former Minister of Health Giulia Grillo, who in an interview with the 'Mattino' challenges the political leader Luigi Di Maio, while ensuring that he nourishes towards him "affection and friendship ". "We need - starting Grillo - to start from the meaning of the figure of the political leader, when we decided to give ourselves this structure we had not understood it this way. We are now a top-down structure without weights and counterweights. At the beginning the political leader had to be a marginal figure and instead she gave herself an interpretation of the role as if it were the man alone in command ".

To defend Di Maio's leadership instead are Ministers Spadafora and Bonafede, and Deputy Minister of Economic Development Bugffagni, who speak of "attacks by a minority" and in view of the General States say: "let's see who is ready to challenge him" .

Spadafora: Di Maio chosen and voted, we will see who challenges him
"The Movement is in a phase of evolution. With its arrival it has revolutionized the political landscape which was based on a fake bipolarity that only served to share power. It has passed laws that have changed this landscape. Now there is no doubt that there are fibrillations, but it is only because the M5s follows its nature of constant change, "says the Minister of Youth Policies, Vincenzo Spadafora, in an interview with the" Corriere della Sera ". "Anyone who imagines the States-General as a scenario of war is a madman. Rather we see which proposals and above all which people will apply to take on the responsibilities that have so far fallen on Di Maio's shoulders", says Spadafora, who underlines: "Luigi is he was the protagonist of the extraordinary path that brought the M5s to where it is and which broke the system of fake bipolarism. This justifies attacks from the outside, but the internal ones are serious ".

Bonafede: a minority against Di Maio, he remains chief
"I don't see a war against Luigi Di Maio because to call it such it would require the participation of many people. Instead, it is a minority that is trying to attack Luigi. But he is the political leader and must remain him", says the Minister of Justice M5s, Alfonso Bonafede, who in an interview with the 'daily fact', rejects the controversy over the double assignment of Di Maio. How can you be an M5s political leader and foreign minister? "Simple - replies Bonafede - working 24 hours a day as Di Maio does, who tirelessly devotes himself to both roles".

Buffagni: vultures on Di Maio, there is no alternative leader
"There are so many vultures around and I don't see alternative leadership on the horizon." So the deputy minister M5s of Economic Development, Stefano Buffagni, defends the political leader Luigi Di Maio in an interview with 'Repubblica'. "With his guide - he recalls - we overwhelmed the 2018 elections, and we are talking about a 34-year-old person. Maybe he sinned inexperience, like all the M5s, but others would have done better?", Asks Buffagni.