The newly elected mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi on Friday morning met Pope Francis in a private audience at the Vatican.
Speaking to reporters after the audience, which she attended with her parents and seven-year-old son, Raggi said the meeting went well and the pontiff is a "person of deep humanity".
Raggi, a member of the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement (M5S), reportedly brought as a gift to the pope a video message from residents of a number of low-income districts of Rome, including Corviale and Tor Bella Monaca.
The mayor reportedly showed the video to the pope on her tablet.
Raggi's office said the initiative was aimed, "in harmony with the words and work carried out by the pontiff over the past years", to gift him with the voices of underprivileged Romans who have been "forgotten for too long by political institutions".
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