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Populist Surge Puts First Woman Virginia Raggi in Charge of Rome
Breitbart ^
| 19 Jun 2016
Posted on 06/19/2016 10:00:47 PM PDT by aquila48
Virginia Raggi was elected Sunday as Rome’s first female mayor, exit polls showed, in an electoral triumph for the populist Five Star Movement that represents a major setback for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Exit polls gave Raggi around two thirds of the vote in a run-off contest with Roberto Giachetti of Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
The 37-year-old lawyer and local councillor, a complete unknown only a few months ago, had been widely expected to claim the keys to City Hall.
But the margin of her victory exceeded expectations with the exit polls pointing to her taking between 62 and 68 percent of the vote.
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The news is not so much that she's a woman, but that she comes from an anti-establishment party - Five Star Movement. She routed parties that have dominated Rome's politics forever. She's often referred as Italy's Donald Trump because she's not an ideologue, but someone who wants to fix problems in a pragmatic, common sense. With all the corruption in Rome she'll have her hands full. Should be interesting to see how she does.
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posted on
06/19/2016 10:00:47 PM PDT
by
aquila48
To: aquila48
The Five Star Movement in Italy is a repudiation of the Uniparty politics of that nation and the failed promises of parties of the “Right” and “Left” in Italy.
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posted on
06/19/2016 10:06:27 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
To: aquila48
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posted on
06/19/2016 10:10:58 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
To: DesertRhino
Not Guilty!
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posted on
06/19/2016 10:45:03 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: aquila48
Benissima. Brava a Lei, Virginia. My aunt in Italy has the funny name of Luigina. Phew. Good for Rome.
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posted on
06/19/2016 11:48:57 PM PDT
by
Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
To: aquila48
She’s anti-establishment but not an Italian Donald Trump.
She’s more like an Italian Bernie Sanders.
Her policies and proposed solutions are leftist.
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posted on
06/20/2016 12:34:39 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(If liberals were in charge of the oceans, in 5 years the water would be gone.)
To: aquila48
I'll bet she carried the male vote...
To: aquila48
Awkwardly written headline. Makes it sound like all the previous Virgin Raggis were men, and she is the first woman to have that name.
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posted on
06/20/2016 3:13:20 AM PDT
by
married21
( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: aquila48
"Scams abounded for years, from stealing the funds allocated to transport ethnic Roma children to school to paving the city’s streets with wafer-thin surfaces, according to prosecutors."OMG can she come to Michigan and run for Governor? Man that sounds like Detroit and Lansing in regards to our roads.
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posted on
06/20/2016 3:49:52 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
To: aquila48
What kind of name is that for a genuine Italian?
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posted on
06/20/2016 5:52:57 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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