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In Rome, Virginia Raggi wants to finish the job she did not start

There are those who feel that his record as mayor of Rome is not so bad and those who live there. Romans who note the total abandonment in which the capital is left. However, they had voted with 70% of the vote in 2016 this young lawyer of 36 years. She praised her childhood in a suburb while slipping on her internship in the office of one of Silvio Berlusconi’s defenders. A member of the M5S, she had only one political experience, that of a municipal councilor in the city with eternal problems. After the explosion in 2014 of the “Mafia Capitale” scandal with its vast network of corruption involving elected officials, officials and criminals, Virginia Raggi was considered the last hope.

Questionable appointments

The first woman to hold the post of mayor of rome assured that“She would not make untenable promises”. She therefore preferred to do nothing, mired in scandals of questionable appointments within her team which had suffered cascading resignations. Four years after her triumphant election, she no longer warms hearts or provokes overwhelming enthusiasm. Rather, it is the dilapidated buses that burn regularly for lack of maintenance and the trash cans that dump on the sidewalks for lack of an adequate garbage collection service. Not to mention the record municipal debt of over 12 billion euros which continues to soar. This does not prevent him from running for a second term next spring for “Finish the work undertaken”. The Romans, however, are still waiting for it to begin.

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