Tag: Five Star Movement (M5S)

Women take charge as populist surge sweeps Italy

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, […]