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Rome elects first female mayor in 2800 years
Once seen as a protest party, Virginia Raggi’s ‘Five Star Movement’ says it’s ready to rule.
For the first time in almost three millennia, Rome’s top official will be a woman.
At just 37 years old, lawyer Virginia Raggi has taken up the helm of one of the world’s oldest cities and pledged to fix its most enduring issues.
And in case being a young woman wasn’t trailblazing enough, Raggi is also a member of one of Italy’s more intriguing political parties: the ‘anti-corruption’ Five Star Movement.
The party – which claims it can’t be placed on the left-right political scale – is antigrowth, Eurosceptic, and claims it can clean up Rome’s scandalised city hall.
For the first time in almost three millennia, Rome’s top official will be a woman.
At just 37 years old, lawyer Virginia Raggi has taken up the helm of one of the world’s oldest cities and pledged to fix its most enduring issues.
And in case being a young woman wasn’t trailblazing enough, Raggi is also a member of one of Italy’s more intriguing political parties: the ‘anti-corruption’ Five Star Movement.
The party – which claims it can’t be placed on the left-right political scale – is antigrowth, Eurosceptic, and claims it can clean up Rome’s scandalised city hall.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2016/06/25/rome-female-mayor/
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