Rome elects first female mayor

France 24, June 20, 2016 – Virginia Raggi was elected as Rome’s first female mayor on Sunday, according to exit polls. The result is an electoral triumph for the populist Five Star Movement.
Exit polls gave Raggi around two thirds of the vote in a run-off contest with Roberto Giachetti of Renzi’s Centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
The 37-year-old lawyer and local councilor, a complete unknown only a few months ago, had been widely expected to claim the keys to City Hall.
But the margin of her victory exceeded expectations with the exit polls pointing to her taking between 62 and 68 percent of the vote.
Raggi successfully tapped into widespread anger among voters over the state of the capital’s public transport and other services, widely seen as having been undermined by years of sleaze in the municipal administration.