Profile: After 2,500 years of kings, emperors and popes, Rome gets its first female mayor -Virginia

[47of74]

Source: The Telegraph

A city ruled for 2,500 years by Etruscan kings, Roman emperors, powerful popes and the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini now has a woman mayor for the first time in its history.

Virginia Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer from the Eurosceptic, populist Five Star Movement, swept to power in the early hours of Monday morning after winning 67 per cent of the vote during a run-off election, two weeks after an initial round of voting failed to deliver an outright winner.

It was a decisive win over her rival, Roberto Giachetti of the Democratic Party, which is led by Matteo Renzi, the prime minister. “The people of Rome have won and I want to thank all those who put their trust in me,” Ms Raggi said at around 1am on Monday as the scale of her victory became apparent.

“This is a historic moment and a turning point. For the first time Rome has a woman mayor, in a time in which equal opportunities are a chimera. I will be a mayor for all Romans. We will work to bring back to the city legality and transparency. We’re going to change everything.”

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/20/after-2500-years-of-kings-emperors-and-popes-rome-gets-its-first/

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Wow.

[justhanginon]

1. I am going to consider this a very good omen for Hillary in the coming election this November

[AntiBank]

3. save the part where they are on opposite ends of many core issues

Many of the 5 Star Movement's principles are the reverse of Clinton.


The M5S is considered populist (reverse of Clinton)
anti-establishment(reverse of Clinton)
environmentalist (same)
anti-globalist(reverse of Clinton)
Eurosceptic(reverse of Clinton)

The party also advocates direct democracy (reverse of Clinton) the principle of "zero-cost politics",(reverse of Clinton)[ degrowth,(reverse of Clinton) and nonviolence.(differs from Clinton in key aspects)

In foreign policy, the M5S have condemned military interventions of the West in the Greater Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq,Libya) as well as any notion of American intervention in Syria (reverse of Clinton in a huge way)



modified for clarity from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Star_Movement

[IronLionZion]

2. Congrats Virginia Raggi

Cleaning up corruption and fixing public transit and trash collection are challenging but worthwhile goals. Best of luck!

[47of74]

4. Yeah

Make it more liveable for the part of the city the tourists don't see.