M5S everyone's home, no more expulsions says Conte

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 9 - 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe Conte on Monday said the party is everyone's home and also needs those who have different opinions, speaking on Facebook.
    The ex-premier said "our community is the home of all members.
    "There isn't only place here for those who saw their proposals voted", Conte noted, a day after a series of changes to the statute of the 5-Star Movement he promoted were approved again in a second vote of the group's members.
    "It is also the home of those who had a different proposal or who did not take part in the constituent process", he added.
    "We need the contribution of those who think differently, we need everyone's contribution.
    "It is not the time for ousters or expulsions anymore, or an owners' decision leading to mass axpulsions", Conte said on his Facebook profile.
    A second vote was called after objections to how the first ballot was held at a 'constituent assembly' last month were raised by M5S founder Beppe Grillo, who opposes the changes.
    Grillo is being stripped of his role as the populist party's 'guarantor' under the reform of the statute.
    The changes also scrap the movement's two-term limit for its elected representatives, make it possible to change its symbol, and place it firmly in the progressive camp.
    Comic-and-blogger-cum-politician Grillo has said the M5S "very dead" (stramorto) after the changes to its statute and has hinted that he will start a new group. (ANSA).