The M5s scraps Grillo and chooses the progressive camp. But imposes its 'non-negotiable principles' on the PD

Who are we? Where do we come from? What do we want? Where do we want to go? With whom do we want to go? But, above all, do we want to get rid of Beppe Grillo?

Yes, because the questions on which the M5s national assembly, selected by more than 300 delegates and grouped into 12 mega-issues by the national council in recent days, will have to express its opinion in the coming hours and up to Sunday, unequivocally go in the direction of overcoming Grillism. Not only will the last taboo of the 5 Stars of the first hour, i.e. the limit of two consecutive terms of office for elective offices in the name of 'one is worth one' and anti-caste, certainly be overcome (the options are various but the direction is the same); Grillo himself, the current Guarantor and co-founder of the movement together with the late Gianroberto Casaleggio in 2009, will probably be overcome.

After the flop at the last regional elections (in Umbria, the M5s gathered a meagre 4.7% compared to the 8.9% of the European elections in June, in Emilia Romagna even 3.5%), some authoritative voices against the alliance with the Democratic Party were raised among the Pentastellati, such as that of the former mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino ("The Democratic Party is engulfing us"). Hence the 'aut aut aut' of President Giuseppe Conte, who has put on the table his resignation if his line does not pass ("if the path of the M5s is in doubt I will draw the consequences"), and the eve's appeal for participation addressed to the members, thinned in recent weeks to about 89,000 to avoid appeals since the statutory changes will be valid only if half of the eligible voters will vote. Now the wait, before the members' response, is all about Grillo's possible moves: either a public call for abstention to save the original project, or his descent to Rome to take part in 'Nova', the big event organised at the Palazzo dei Congressi over the weekend.

Among the first questions that members will be faced with is the choice between 'elimination of the role of the Supervisor', choice A and thus implicitly the preferred choice of the current leadership, or 'maintaining the role of the Supervisor'. However, the status quo is not contemplated, because in the case of retention, members will have to choose one or more of three options, all limiting the current powers. Here they are: 1) You want his powers to be limited by repealing paragraph 2 of letter a) of Article 12 of the Statute: "he shall have the power of authentic interpretation, which cannot be reviewed, of the provisions of this Statute"; 2) You want the role of the Guarantor to have a defined duration, like the other offices of the association, therefore, the words "indefinitely" contained in letter c) of Article 12 of the Statute should be deleted. c) of Article 12 of the Bylaws shall be replaced by the following "for a period of four years renewable for no more than two consecutive terms", with effect from the date of approval; 3) You want the Supervisor to have an exclusively honorary role, therefore all the provisions of the Bylaws that grant him specific powers shall be replaced by recognising him as having a consultative function.

As well as Grillo, who has already been warned that his €300,000 per year contract for communication activities will not be renewed, it will remain an honorary and fixed-term position and no longer for life like that of the Pope.