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Meet Rome’s first female mayor
By Catherine Hardy

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"A new era is beginning with us"

Rome gets first female mayor in 2,700 years
5 Star trounce Renzi’s Democratic Party
Do they have their eye on the 2018 election?

ROME: -- The first female mayor in Rome’s 2700 year history has told Euronews that her two main
priorities are tackling debt and public spending.


Virginia Raggi from Italy’s populist Five Star Movement took the Italian capital with two thirds of the vote in a run-off on Sunday.

Turin also has a new, Five Star, female mayor – Chiara Appendino.

An exclusive interview with Euronews

Raggi has given an exclusive interview to Euronews.

“We will begin by tackling excessive public spending,” she said. “After a two-and-a-half year Commission on spending, we think this amounts to 1,200 million euros a year. We have to claw back this wasted money and let people benefit from it.”

“There is the huge issue of renegotiating the city of Rome’s debt. This currently stands between 13 and 16 billion euros.”

“We have to carry out an audit, to understand exactly what has gone on and then renegotiate the interest rates.”

The Five Star Movement

The anti-establishment Five-Star Movement trounced Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in local elections.

Five Star won in 19 of the towns where it had got through to the second round.

Its successes in Rome and Turin could provide a springboard for a bid for the national elections in 2018.

Who is Virginia Raggi?

Raggi won Sunday’s runoff contest with two-thirds of the vote, beating Roberto Giachettil of Matteo Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party.

Raggi – a profile

37 years old
A lawyer
Former local councillor
Has become one of the best-known faces in Italian politics after a few months campaigning
Raggi said, “A new era is beginning with us. We will work to bring back legality and transparency to the city’s institutions.”

Five Star in five

Feeds off popular anger over issues like graft
Aiming to establish itself as the main opposition to the governing coalition of Matteo Renzi.
Won 19 out of 20 towns where its candidates stood for mayor.
Female Five Star candidate Chiara Appendino named mayor in Turin
Success could provide a springboard for the movement to make a play in the 2018 general election.

What about Matteo Renzi?

The centre-left Democratic Party of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was trounced in the weekend votes, although it held on to power in the key cities of Milan and Bologna.

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-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-21

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"On a woman's taste"? What does that mean? It sounds sexist.

Is she going to have bridges and other infrastructure built by Louis Vuitton?

Lol good one! clap2.gif

'Infrastructure by Vuitton' is all the rage this season Shirtless.

Don't you know anything? lol giggle.gif

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Get your head out of the PC BS, or go bye a blouse.(helpisgood).

Forget about a blouse champ, go the whole hog and shout yourself a shirt son, then you won't be (wait for it...) SHIRTLESS!

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Fashion statement or what... you have arrived shirtless! World, or at least Sukhumvit, prepare to be WOWWED!

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On a slightly related note, I have another proposal to change the world: all positions of high office should be occuptied jointly by two people: a man and a woman.

Btw, I am still available for the position of Secretary General of the UN. I thang yew.

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