Virginia Raggi

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Virginia Raggi (2016)
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Virginia Elena Raggi (born July 18, 1978 in Rome ) is an Italian lawyer and politician for the MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S) party.

She has been the mayor of her hometown of Rome since June 22nd, 2016 .

Life

Raggi grew up in the Roman district of San Giovanni . After completing her school education, she studied law at the University of Rome III . She was admitted to the bar in Rome in October 2006. She specializes in copyright , patent and trademark law.

Raggi is married to a radio director and has one son.

politics

The decisive factor for Raggi to be politically active was the birth of her son. In the following time she was increasingly bothered by the infrastructural deficiencies in her hometown. In 2011 she became involved in a neighborhood committee for the first time. Through her husband she came into contact with the protest party MoVimento 5 Stelle ; both are founding members of their district association. In the local elections in 2013 she won a seat in the city parliament of Rome.

For the election of the mayor in June 2016, she applied within the M5S, and won the online vote held by the party with 1,764 votes. The city is considered "ungovernable", nepotism and self-enrichment as widespread; its officers are prone to corruption and have good contacts with organized crime , especially the mafia . The various political camps had taken turns ruling the city for decades without being able to solve its problems in the long term. The last mayor, Ignazio Marino , resigned in autumn 2015 after being accused of paying for several private meals with his business credit card. The allegations have since turned out to be baseless.

In the run-up to the election, observers reckoned Raggi had good chances, especially since neither the left nor the right could agree on a common candidate. But critics criticized her populist election campaign and also doubted that she was able to Roman Augean stables to clean out. Her suggestions are unrealistic, she lacks the experience and she is actually just a "puppet" of M5S founder Beppe Grillo . In addition, she concealed an internship that she had done with Cesare Previti , the former defense minister ; he is considered an ally of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi .

In the election on June 5, 2016, she achieved the best result with 35.25% of the vote, followed by the candidate of the Partito Democratico of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Vice-President of the House of Representatives , Roberto Giachetti (24.87%), that of FdI-AN and Lega Nord supported Giorgia Meloni (20.64%) and Alfio Marchini from Forza Italia and Nuovo Centrodestra (10.97%). Since none of the candidates achieved the required absolute majority, there was a runoff election. Raggi was the favorite against Giachetti (PD). The chairman of the Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini , had called on its supporters before the first round to vote for Raggi in a runoff election. Raggi prevailed with 67.15% of the vote; Giachetti admitted his defeat after the first projections.

It took her six weeks to put her cabinet together. When choosing her employees, she had to take her own party into account. So she has z. B. obliged to pay a five-figure sum out of their own pocket if they do not do the party's will. The new mayor encountered particular resistance from the municipal garbage disposal and local public transport , which demonstrated their power with tens of thousands of employees. Reforms z. B. in garbage disposal are not done, although they have been urgently needed for years. Mountains of rubbish piled up in some Roman city quarters, while the employees of the municipal waste disposal company AMA did their job according to regulations and drove their usual tours.

On December 16, 2016, Raffaele Marra, who was considered Raggi's right-hand man, was arrested for bribery. A few days earlier, Paola Muraro had resigned as head of the environment, against whom the public prosecutor was investigating for corruption. Thereupon Beppe Grillo traveled to Rome and arranged that Vice Mayor Daniele Frongia and the head of the secretariat, Salvatore Romeo, resign.

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Web links

Commons : Virginia Raggi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schlamp: Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi: Back-breaking job for the five-star woman , accessed on June 20, 2016
  2. ↑ Entry Virginia Raggi ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Roman Bar Association, accessed June 7, 2016 (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ordineavvocati.roma.it
  3. ↑ Rome's ex-mayor Marino acquitted of fraud charges. In: The press . October 7, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ Chiara Sarra: Roma, la Raggi è prima: va al ballottaggio con Giachetti. Il Giornale , June 6, 2016, accessed June 7, 2016 (Italian)
  5. ^ Peter Mühlbauer: M5S candidates in runoff election in Rome and Turin. Telepolis, June 7, 2016, accessed the same day
  6. ↑ Mayoral election: Raggi celebrates clear victory in Rome Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 20, 2016, accessed on the same day
  7. ↑ FAZ.net August 11, 2016 / Jörg Bremer : Mountains of garbage as a Roman welcome. Rome's new mayor Virginia Raggi wants to smash encrusted structures. But she meets with resistance everywhere - even within her own party.
  8. ↑ Jörg Bremer: “Movement Five Stars”: The new savages cannot get a grip on Rome . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 9, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 9, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Dominik Straub: Rome's mayor is in the swamp of corruption. In: Tagesspiegel . December 19, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Simona Casilini, Annalisa Cuzzocrea: Caso Marra, Resa della Raggi. In: La Repubblica . December 19, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016 .
predecessor Office successor
Ignazio Marino Mayor of Rome
2016– 		-
personal data
SURNAME Raggi, Virginia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raggi, Virginia Elena (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer and politician (M5S)
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome