New Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi is
set to bring together her new executive for the first time at an
informal meeting on Wednesday before it is formally presented at
a meeting of the city council on Thursday.
Raggi,37, only announced she had completed her cabinet on
Tuesday over two weeks after being elected by a landslide.
The delay was linked to allegedly disagreements within
the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement that she belongs to.
The M5S, meanwhile, will take up the benches on the left
of the city assembly, 'evicting' Premier Matteo Renzi's
centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which has traditionally
occupied that side of the hall, M5S councillor Enrico Stefano
said.
Raggi's line-up, which has yet to be made official,
includes the following firm names: Paolo Berdini (urban
planning); Paola Muraro (environment);Andrea Lo Cicero (sport);
Luca Bergamo (culture); Flavia Marzano (simplification); Laura
Baldassarre (social affairs). Other possible names are Marcello
Minenna (budget); Enrico Stefàno (transport); and Adriano Meloni
(trade). Daniele Frongia is expected to be deputy mayor with the
brief for city-controlled companies; while Daniela Morgante,
former budget councillor for former mayor Ignazio Marino, is
expected to be cabinet chief.
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