The outgoing mayor of Rome is dismissed after 5 years, who in the last concise farewell speech claims the merit of having “laid the foundations to resurrect the city”. Third after the center-right and center-left candidates, who will compete in a ballot for the seat of Palazzo Senatorio, on the voting instructions for her voters, Virginia Raggi has clear ideas: “The vote is free, votes are not packages to be moved and citizens are not herds to be taken to pasture ».
Until late in the evening, the former mayor had defined herself as “the only one who is keeping up with the battleships of the center-right and center-left with the Five Star Movement and my civic lists”. Some hope for a possible ballot came shortly after the closing of the polls, when the first SWG screening for La7 gave a head to head between her and the center-left candidate Roberto Gualtieri, behind Enrico Michetti. Now, defending his 19.7%, he affirms that «after 5 years of violent attacks, including personal ones, which few would have resisted, I have achieved little less than what the center-right and center-left have achieved. And this is a fact to take into account and on which we will necessarily reflect on in the coming days ».
His thoughts then turn to “the least, the fragile and the peripheries”, who sanctioned his victory in 2016, on which he promises to watch, given that “they have been the subject of electoral catwalks in recent days”. And in a warning to his successor he added «I took on the hardest part of the job and I did it with conviction. Now those who come later have no more excuses for not working well. “
Then followed the thanks to the collaborators, parliamentarians and to Luigi Di Maio and Giuseppe Conte “who put their face on it”. “It was an important result – he said at the conference – which gives a voice to many people who believed in me and in the work we have done: restoring ethics in politics, restoring respect for legality in the use of public money, that is, of our money, to give work in a clean way to companies that previously could not work in Rome, rebuilt roads, houses, schools. ”
Even the M5S leader, Giuseppe Conte, in Naples, comments positively on the result “La Raggi came from a difficult situation, five years of attacks, of difficulties in a complex city, especially in the initial phase – he says – But I must say that the result della Raggi is an excellent result, there was no chance to race there with a wider line-up. We were a bit disappointed we expected something more »he concludes.