Rome mayor Virginia Raggi lashed out
at her critics on Wednesday, noting that previous
administrations had left a legacy of deficit, works unfinished,
mafia and rampant nepotism.
"I believe that those who spent hundreds of millions of euros
to build the Vele di Calatrava and then just leave them there,
and those who allowed the Casamonica and Spada mafia families to
take control of parts of Rome while they pretended not to notice
are the incompetent ones," she said. "Or those who allowed
'Parentopoli"', in reference to cases of nepotism, "to enter
(public trash collection) AMA and (public transport) ATAC to
devastate public offers and the resources of these companies,
leaving them with billions of euros of debt."
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the M5S's
national government partner the League, had renewed criticism of
M5S Mayor Virginia Raggi on Wednesday.
Raggi noted that in the past three years the capital's
government had found "over a billion euros that we are investing
in the city" through road works, renovating schools and day care
centers and buying buses.
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