Former Lower House speaker Irene
Pivetti will lead the municipal ticket for the anti-immigrant,
rightwing Northern League party in Rome mayoral elections to be
held in June, sources said Thursday.
"I am proud to head the League ticket in Rome," Pivetti
said. "I am an average adopted Roman - I was born in Milan. In
Rome you clash but you also get welcomed".
Pivetti said she has spent the past 15 years as a
businesswoman and praised the Chinese community, saying she has
"deep-rooted personal friendships" there.
"I would be very happy if a part of the Chinese
community...would take this proposal seriously," she told
reporters at a press conference.
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