Virginia Raggi
| Virginia Raggi | |
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Raggi in 2016
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| 65th Mayor of Rome | |
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Assumed office 22 June 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Francesco Paolo Tronca as Special Commissioner |
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Virginia Elena Raggi 18 July 1978 Rome, Italy |
| Political party | Five Star Movement |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Severini |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Roma Tre University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Virginia Elena Raggi (Italian pronunciation: [virˈdʒiːnja ˈraddʒi]; born 18 July 1978) is an Italian lawyer and politician, the current Mayor of Rome, elected in 2016. Raggi represents the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), and is both the first candidate from that party and the first woman to be elected to Rome's mayoralty.
Raggi was born and raised in the Appio Latino district of Rome, and studied law at the Roma Tre University, specialising in judicial and extrajudicial civil law. Raggi was previously a member of local neighborhood boards before joining the Five Star Movement for Rome district XIV in 2011.
In the 2013 municipal election, Raggi was one of four members of the Five Star Movement elected to Rome city council. The maximum term of office lasts five years, but the resignation of mayor Ignazio Marino (a member of the Democratic Party) triggered early elections; Marino was ousted from office after more than half the city's councillors stepped down. Raggi won the closed primary (against Marcello De Vito — the party's 2013 nominee to the office of Mayor — and other minor candidates) in preparation for the upcoming June 2016 Rome municipal early election. Defined by The Economist as "a talented debater", Raggi is the first female Mayor of the city. She "promised to fight corruption and bring back Rome’s splendor a year after a wide-reaching scandal exposed criminal infiltration in city bidding contracts". Raggi also opposes Rome’s bid to host the Olympic 2024 Olympic Games arguing that the city is in a “delicate moment” pointing out the spiralling deficits in Olympic cities. In June 2016 Raggi said “with 13 billion euros in debt, Rome can’t afford taking on more debt to make cathedrals in the desert […] my no is very clear”.
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