Rome is "invaded by trash" and the
city council is "incapable" of solving the problem, Democratic
Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi said in his e-news eletronic news
bulletin on Tuesday.
He said the PD would "present its ideas on the management of
the refuse emergency" after Sunday, when it will join with the
so-called Yellow T-Shirts for their annual clean-up of the
Italian capital.
Renzi said the "PD is calling upon all those who agree to
join in, volunteers, citizens and associations, to carry out
policy proposals.
"It implements these policies after having organised with
these generous volunteers things that the (Rome) administration
can't manage to do with its own professionals, or so-called
ones".
Rome has been lurching from one trash crisis to another under
Mayor Virginia Raggi of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S), who was elected in a landslide against the PD candidate
almost a year ago.
M5S leader Beppe Grillo, a stand-up comic, said he blamed the
trash crisis on the PD's alleged involvement in the sprawling
Capital Mafia graft case.
Grillo said in an ironic post on Facebook: "The M5S is to
blame for the management of waste in Rome, even though the PD
handled it for years with Capital Mafia".
In the Capital Mafia case, past rightwing and centre-left
Roman administrations have been accused of working with a gang
of criminals that allegedly muscled in on lucrative contracts
for, among other things, waste management and the the running of
Rome gypsy and migrant camps.
Alleged ringleaders Massimo Carminati, a former rightist
militant and gangster, and leftwing cooperatives chief Salvatore
Buzzi, said they could make much more out of such contracts than
they could have got if they were instead engaged in drug
trafficking.
In other remarks in his e-news Tuesday, Renzi said the "wind
is changing" in the PD after his recent re-election.
"And the polls show an impressive recovery of the PD," he
said.
Most polls show the PD back to within an inch behind the M5S
as Italy's top party.
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