A father has the right to give life
and not death to what he creates, ex premier and populist 5-Star
Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe Conte said Sunday after the
founder of the anti-establishment group, stand-up comic Beppe
Grillo, on Saturday claimed the right to the party's
"extinction".
Grillo said he was pulling the plug on the M5S after Conte said
relations with Grillo had "broken down irreversibly" and
announced he will not renew the founder's 300,000-euro-a-year
consultancy contract as its 'guarantor'.
The two-time ex-premier and the comedian had been at odds for
months over issues including possible changes to the movement's
statute that would eliminate the rule stopping M5S's elective
representatives from serving more than two terms. Grillo has
said that the two-term rule must not be changed and neither can
the movement's name or symbol. The row could lead to a schism.
"A father has the right to give life, not to give death to his
children," Conte said Sunday.
"So there is no possibility that someone arrogates to himself
the right, with arrogance, to determine extinction.
"Today the Movement is the community of members. "Outside of
this there are bossy and high-handed concepts that cannot be
justified by political forces".
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