Naples Mayor Manfredi elected ANCI chief

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 20 - Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi on Wednesday was elected new president of the national association of Italian municipalities (ANCI) at a national assembly in Turin.
    Ascoli Piceno Mayor Marco Fioravanti was also unanimously voted president of the National Council of ANCI.
    Manfredi, a 60-year-old university professor, was elected mayor of the southern port city in 2021 with the support of a centre-left coalition.
    Speaking on the sidelines of his election on Wednesday, Manfredi said Premier Giorgia Meloni should see in mayors "loyal, concrete interlocutors who want to be the government's privileged interlocutors", promising "serious and unitary proposals" and expressing the wish for "direct, strong" talks with the prime minister and the government. (ANSA).