Grillo calls Raggi, M5S united (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 7 - Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Beppe Grillo on Wednesday phoned embattled M5S Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi to get her version of events in Rome amid accusations of lying over a cabinet member's probe and mass resignations, sources said. Grillo reiterated that the M5S must remain more united than ever before because Rome is too important, the sources said. There have been reports that Grillo and Raggi are at odds over whether some cabinet members and other staff should resign amid what the media has called chaos, spurred primarily by the long-denied probe into environment pointwoman Paola Muraro. Raggi, Rome's first woman mayor, was elected in a June landslide and her tenure is seen as a test bed for the M5S's ambitions to govern Italy.