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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