(ANSA) - Rome, February 29 - Virginia Raggi, candidate for
Rome mayor with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S),
said she is against Rome's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and
believes the city's problems should be solved first, in an
interview published Monday in Rome daily Il Tempo.
"We need to concentrate on the ordinary," Raggi said,
adding that Rome is a city that is often used to build large
works that remain unfinished.
"In any case, we'll inform citizens of the costs and the
risks of the Olympics," she said.
The 38-year-old Roman lawyer said her top three priorities
for the city reflect "those expressed by Romans themselves:
transparency, which after Capital Mafia is a priority;
transport, given that Rome is the 13th-largest city in the
world, the fifth-largest in Europe and the largest in Italy for
traffic; and waste management, which can make a resource out of
refuse".
M5S mayor candidate Raggi against Rome Olympic bid
Says city's problems must be solved first