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January 24, 2020After Luigi Di Maio's "side step" in the M5s, the race for the new leadership opens. In view of the General States scheduled in mid-March, the different souls of the Movement confront each other: populist and pro-Democratic Party. Regent Crimi will meet with parliamentarians on Tuesday. Di Maio staff denies that his words were an attack on Di Battista.

Crimi: "I will work in continuity with Di Maio"
"They tell me that I am the right person to lead the Movement in this moment of growth, in light of my long experience. But I will not make any break, I will work in continuity with the path that Luigi has started and that I must carry on in the light of detected critical issues ". Thus begins, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, Vito Crimi, 47, the new political guide of the 5 Stars who succeeded in seniority at the top of the Movement after the resignation of Luigi Di Maio.

"I have all the powers of the political leader"
As for his leadership, he says: "We do not ask ourselves the problem of timing or powers, but of leading the M5S in the reorganization. In any case, as a political leader I have all the powers provided for by the statute". Crimi says he still feels "a great responsibility" but also that he has had "many certificates of esteem" and that "activists and colleagues feel reassured.

"Doing good for the most important country of consent"
As for the crisis of the Movement, which gives a 32% consensus which now appears to be halved according to the polls, Crimi replies: "Is consent at all costs more important or doing well for the country? We have not helped the powerful, but the poor. A category that does not influence the masses. "

"M5S never against Europe"
On what the Crimi-led movement will look like, whether in the streets or in government, with the EU or against, for closed or open ports, the new guide replies that the 5 stars have "never been against Europe" because if anything "should be re-established" and that "with the new government we are helping to improve it, so much so that the redistribution of migrants has gone from 11 people per month to 98 and that these results are the result" of an integrated management of the phenomenon, the we leave the chatter to others. "" It is not about the ports that we need to think about, but about departures, "says Crimi.

"Loyal with the Conte government"
As for the relationship with the Conte government, Crimi affirms that the attitude of the 5 Stars has "never been conflicting, but always one of loyal confrontation and collaboration" and that "this will continue to be" also in the future. Then Crimi adds: "The list of results that we brought home and that Luigi has remembered is astounding. Other than conflict, it is productivity. I have no doubt about the government and I will work continuously, at starting from Autostrade "promises.

"Government program continues regardless of regional outcome"
And on the vote after Sunday, January 26 in Emilia and Calabria he says sure: "The government has a timetable to be defined and implemented, beyond the elections. We must lower taxes, as we have already started to do and for 16 million Italians with the cut of the tax wedge, an objective that we must pursue thanks to the income tax reform ".

"We will be judged at the end of the term"
Then he closes: "We have very ambitious goals, on which we want to be judged at the end of the mandate". No government crisis, therefore, in any case and however it goes. Crimi is not afraid of stabs or friendly fire, but of being proud "of being and at the head of a Movement that respects its rules without looking at anyone and in the face. Whoever does not respect the agreements does not scare me, it pains me", He says.

Di Battista? A brother. Salvini a coward
Su Di Battista says that "Alessandro is like a brother" and that he does not ask "any doubts about his loyalty" and that he will offer parliamentarians "involvement and participation, but I will ask for mutual and united respect". And on cut wages and their restitution, for a more sober policy and closer to citizens, he says: "It has always been our battle" but assures: "We will change the procedures, but the principle does not change". Last question: Salvini yes or Salvini no? "No, please. He has proven to be unreliable and cowardly."