There is need for "renewal"
within Rome's city administration, mayoral candidate in
centre-left primaries Roberto Morassut said Monday.
"A new ruling class needs to be selected to run the
Campidoglio," the former Rome executive councillor for urban
planning under the Veltroni administration said.
"Skills and energy need to be grafted to restore the
efficiency of the city machinery," he added added.
Morassut is running against deputy Lower House Speaker
Roberto Giachetti, also of the PD, in the primaries in March.
Stafano Fassina, a former junior economy minister who left
the PD last year to join the Italian Left (SI), has announced
his intention to run for the mayorship without taking part in
the race to chose the centre-left candidate on grounds his
former and current parties have noting in common.
Morassut said Monday the only hope for the centre-left in
Rome is to build a broad coalition, however.
"A project for government is needed that involves the
radical left but is also directed towards the moderate centre,"
he said.
"In Rome the centre-left has always won the elections like
that and has always governed well when it has been able to put
together a broad coalition," Morassut insisted.
Local opinion polls put the anti-establishment Five-Star
Movement (M5S) safely in the lead in Rome in the wake of the
Mafia Capitale scandal involving allegations of infiltration by
organized crime into city contracts.
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