• Di Maio meets ministers of the M5s and announces his resignation as political leader
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January 22, 2020 "It is time to refound itself, an era is closing today". So Luigi Di Maio from the stage of the Temple of Hadrian in Rome to the presentation of the regional members of the 'Team of the future' of the M5s. And he adds: "I started working on this speech a month ago." But "From today our organization is final. And I can say that I have completed my task".

Face pulled, emotion barely held in some passages, Luigi Di Maio illustrated his legacy, what he leaves to the people of the 5 stars at the end of a long and complicated path, but brought to fruition: "Congratulations to all for being elected facilitators, you have a great task to carry out. Finally we have a movement organized with roles and tasks, from today you can count on competent and legitimate people who will be able to listen to needs and requirements and then will be able to identify people who can implement them. We are born from the territory and to be in government and to give concrete answers we need to be on the territory in an organized way, I worked on it for a year and I can say I have completed my task. From today the path for the General States begins ".

I trust
"Everything we do is based on trust, we trust people. History tells us that some have betrayed us, but for one who has betrayed us at least ten have confirmed their trust, and have signed laws that have changed life of the Italians. Whatever happens I trust you and who will come after me. "

Unpopular choices
"I protected the Movement from traps and traitors, so sometimes I made tough choices or that seemed incomprehensible. But fortunately we still have a long path ahead of us, of continuous growth. Our five stars will walk on the legs of millions of Italians. We have built a future in which to hope together with millions of citizens ".

Friendly fire
"No political force has been defeated from the outside. The worst enemies are those that one never imagines to have and which contradict the values ​​for which we fought together. They are the people who work within us not for the group but for the their visibility. People who don't put their faces in it, who criticize not for building but for destroying ".

Thanks to Beppe and Gianroberto
"To get here we jumped and I did them too. My heartfelt thanks go to Beppe and Gianroberto. Nothing will be the same as before. You can be proud of what we have done. Many have written me not to give up . I will never give up the movement. The movement is my family. In fact, I tell you that I will be there in the general states. I also want to bring some innovative ideas for our beloved Italy ".

Let's become a compass
"It is a complex moment for the M5s, other realities mimic the sardines or the movement of Greta to present themselves as something new. But repositioning is not enough, you have to be a compass trying to predict the direction that history takes. And we must be in able to improve the lives of Italians in the next ten years ". "We have to be brave and confident at the same time, we can do it."

The judgment at the end of the mandate
"The M5s cannot be judged after 20 months of government, but we have the sacrosanct right to be evaluated at the end of the legislature and this is also why the government must go on. In the end I am convinced that the results will come. We must have time to make up for what they messed up 30 years ago. "

Markets don't understand
"I saw that after the news of the resignation the title of Autostrade went on the market. It means that the markets have not understood anything, because M5s will not give up the battle on the revocation of the concessions.

And now Crimi
"I resign as political leader of the Movement. From tonight my duties as political leader will pass, as per regulation, to the senior member of the guarantee committee Vito Crimi. Vito and the team of the future will take us to the general states".

Casaleggio: "My father knew his worth"
"I respect the decision of Luigi di Maio. Luigi has had the great role in these years to demonstrate that this Movement could sit on the government benches, could bring home the great reforms that he asked for in the squares and from the benches of the opposition. His competitive resilience has allowed him to achieve great personal results, but above all for a large community of people ". Davide Casaleggio writes it on facebook. "When it was time to put your face on it or lose your sleep hours Luigi has always been on the front line even on choices that he did not share, but respected because he chose them by majority". "He knows that for every word of attack on Luigi it would have taken another ten of praise for all the work he has carried on and continues to carry on, and for all he has managed to achieve. And my father knew all this too. I therefore want to say public thanks to Luigi for all he has done so far for the Movement and for his future commitment to defend the Movement, with the heart ".

Fico: "New phase opens, now frank comparison"
"We have come a long way together with Luigi. An important path, started many years ago and which continues today. I have often dealt with him, even lively. Sometimes we have had different visions and opinions on some issues and issues to be addressed. I think however, this is the time to thank Luigi for his commitment and dedication of these years, which no one can question. " The President of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, writes it on Facebook.

"But each path has different phases. The Movement has taken on a responsibility towards the citizens and must carry on the work started over time, thanks to the contribution of activists and spokespersons, present at the various institutional levels - he adds -. renewed energy, with seriousness and tenacity, with the daily commitment of the parliamentary groups. What happens today does not in any way change this path and the commitment in the government ".

Hanger: "Thanks Luigi"
"I want to say thank you because in spite of everything, even in spite of the mistakes that inevitably occurred, you never gave up." So the mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino, who commented on his website the resignation of Luigi Di Maio as political leader of the 5 Star Movement. "You have shown that by believing in something, maybe you don't move the mountains, but you make governments. You have shown that the politics of concreteness and seriousness can be opposed to that of the show and of the permanent electoral campaigns. That respect, in the institutions , it comes first. You have shown that only by getting your hands dirty and giving up your own you can change things. And you have shown that the good of the country comes before anything else, starting from consent ".

Spokes: "Come on with your head held high, let's roll up our sleeves"
"Luigi #DiMaio forward with his head held high. The road ahead is long, complex but exciting: let's roll up our sleeves!". The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi wrote it on Twitter after the resignation of Luigi Di Maio as political leader of the 5 Star Movement.

Conte: "To him the merit of many results"
"The choice of Luigi Di Maio to leave the leadership of the 5 Star Movement regrets me, but it is a decision that I take note of with due respect. We must recognize the merit of so many results obtained: I think of the commitment made to social justice and the legality, to measures such as the income of citizenship, the anti-corruption law and the fight against the privileges of the political class Luigi was the protagonist of the realization of these cardinal values ​​of the Movement: he has always fought for them and I am sure he will continue in his commitment His decision represents a stage in a process of reorganization within the 5 Star Movement that has been underway for some time now and which, I am persuaded, will have no repercussion on the strength of the Executive and the solidity of its team. to face this new phase. Now he will have to complete this process and embrace with courage and enthusiasm the new challenges he will have to face. you rhyme to do the job ahead. With Luigi Di Maio we will continue to work side by side until 2023 to consolidate Italy's leading role in Europe and in the world ". So said the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte.

Salvini: the government is over
"Di Maio abandons the leadership of the 5 Stars to the collapse, Zingaretti announces the dissolution of the PD, Renzi argues with everyone. The government is over". This was stated by the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini.

Zingaretti: hug Di Maio, good luck to Crimi
"A hug to Luigi Di Maio for a difficult choice that we respect. A big good luck to Vito Crimi. There is an Italy that needs growth, work, equity. We will continue to work to give answers and concrete solutions to people". Nicola Zingaretti says it on twitter.

Forza Italy: Di Maio did not resign, he was fired
"More than resigning Di Maio was fired as he will no longer be the head of the 5 Star Movement delegation in government. Nothing more, nothing less than
already done by Conte this summer who did not want him vice premier. Beyond the sterile words and full of useless rhetoric, the only truth is that today the failure of the grillini, their vision of the country, a political project out of any institutional scheme and, at times, far from it, is claimed Constitution ". So, in a note, the vice president of the Forza Italia group in the Senate, Licia Ronzulli.

Pizzarotti: it is the beginning of the end
"We are in the final stages, the resignation is only the beginning". Federico Pizzarotti, mayor of Parma and former member of the M5s says so, commenting on the resignation of Luigi di Maio as leader of the movement. An epilogue that Pizzarotti claims to have foreseen in 2016, "before leaving a movement that, even then, was dying", writing in his book (A normal revolution): "One day the 5 Star Movement will come to form a large assembly of elected. He will have to do this in order not to be consumed by internal struggles (...). Call it congress or with another name, but it will happen. " Today, the mayor explains on Facebook, "I was just waiting to be able to resume that page and show it, because time is gentleman and because waiting on the river bank, sooner or later, you see us pass everyone, absolutely everyone".

Today, adds the Parmesan, "reality wins over the populism of those few who brought the movement in disarray". Italy, concludes the mayor, "does not need a screaming policy and unable to manage the big problems of current affairs, from job insecurity to the quality of life. We need a pragmatic policy that finds solutions to the problems of Italians in its action" .

New York Times: Di Maio release increases chaos
When in 2018 the M5S "took power, Luigi Di Maio, the party leader with impeccably dressed child's face, emerged as the reassuring face of a political force that went from being a protest movement to a mature party Today, Di Maio has become the face of a party in chaos and a coalition of government in deep difficulty between the collapse in the polls and a growing internal dissatisfaction ".

So the New York Times in a correspondence from Rome describes Di Maio's farewell as political leader of the M5S, "an exit that increases the prospects of yet another government crisis in Italy and early elections that could open the door to right-wing leader Matteo Salvini ".

Crimi: I take charge with humility
"Luigi Di Maio has decided to resign his mandate as political leader of the 5 Star MoVement. By virtue of our statute, it is now up to the oldest member of the Guarantee Committee to play this role. That is me". Vito Crimi, deputy interior minister in the Conte II government and acting political head of the MoVimento5Stelle following the resignation of Luigi Di Maio, in the evening wanted to clarify his role as a "ferryman" by sending a long message to the militants. "I take on this task - he said - with the humility and gratitude that is due to the thousands of citizens who for years have contributed to our activities with ideas, proposals, concrete actions. I take it on with the awareness of having to bear a great responsibility: that of a movement that in ten years has had unimaginable growth and which must now be accompanied towards a new phase, and towards new objectives that look to the future ".