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by Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — Virginia Raggi was elected Sunday as Rome’s first female mayor in a triumph for the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) that represents a stinging setback for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Raggi swept into City Hall with two thirds of the votes cast in a run-off contest with Roberto Giachetti of Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD). The anti-establishment M5S also claimed control of the northern city of Turin, […]
by Olivier BAUBE Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — “Bread and circuses” was the formula that ancient Rome’s rulers hoped would keep the restless natives happy. Two millennia later, residents of the Eternal City just want their buses to turn up on time, holes in the roads filled and garbage collected and dealt with safely. Virginia Raggi says that is why she put her legal career on hold in a bid to become the Italian […]
