Raggi cabinet chief, budget member quit (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 1 - Rome City cabinet chief Carla Raineri and budget cabinet member Marcello Minenna resigned last night, it emerged on Thursday. "I tendered my irrevocable resignation yesterday," Raineri told ANSA. The reasons will be forthcoming in an "official communique", she said. Mayor Virginia Raggi said the National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) has declared Raineri's appointment improper under Article 90 of a 2000 legislative decree on local bodies, known as TUEL in its Italian acronym.
    "Consequently will emit an ordinance revoking (the nomination)," Raggi wrote on Facebook.
    Raggi is from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and was elected in June.
    Premier Matteo Renzi, whose Democratic Party (PD) candidate for Rome mayor had a poor showing in that election, said he "won't say a word" about the resignations.
    "I respect the mayor's work," he told RTL private FM radio.
    "She won, the honors and duties are hers to deal with - I won't say a word about her team - the responsibility and the duty of governing belong to the winner".