Unfortunately, many in the election campaign make promises that they don't keep. Six years after the end of my time as mayor, it was interesting to read how almost all of the aspiring mayors were in full agreement with my programme for the city. At the end of September, a Rome newspaper published a letter from me to the candidates in which I listed what, for me, remain the five priorities for building the Rome of the future.
A few weeks before the vote, with the sole exception of Carlo Calenda, they only had generic programmes lacking in detail.Īnother serious shortcoming was the public debate between the candidates. I followed the electoral campaign from abroad, and criticised the general vagueness of the candidates. What are your views about the recent electoral campaign for the mayor of Rome and what is your opinion about the winner, Roberto Gualtieri? Wanted in Rome talks to Ignazio Marino, who was the centre-left mayor of Rome from 2013-2015 and is now professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Axa, Casal Palocco, Infernetto districts.
