No more roman holiday
Sono sinceramente sconvolta.
Non me l'aspettavo.
Si è persa pure Roma.
Oddio.
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Rome right seeks boost from anger at migrants
By Guy Dinmore in Rome
Published: April 28 2008 02:58 | Last updated: April 28 2008 02:58
A murder in Rome followed by the rape of a student, both blamed on immigrants, have set the stage for a possible return to power of the right in the Italian capital for the first time since the second world war.
Romans began voting on Sunday in a run-off for mayor, with the centre-left Democratic party fearing the loss of its stronghold in the wake of its resounding defeat by Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition in national elections earlier this month. Voting in Rome continues on Monday with results expected also on Monday evening.
Losing the capital would deal a double blow to Walter Veltroni, the Democratic party leader and mayor of the city for the past seven years, and almost certainly widen divisions within his new party.
Gianni Alemanno, candidate of the rightwing National Alliance, has focused his campaign on zero tolerance for crime, promising to expel from the city 20,000 immigrants, many of them gypsies, who he says have criminal records.
“The blood of Giovanna Reggiani did not change anything,” he told a rally, referring to the 47-year-old Roman who died after a savage beating, allegedly by a Romanian gypsy, near a suburban railway station last October.
“Her death sent the message to millions that you can come to Italy and do anything you want.”
Anger over her widely publicised murder - which led the centre-left government to empower local authorities to expel immigrants - was intensified last week after the rape of a student from Lesotho, also near a Rome train station. Again the fact that a Romanian was arrested was played up by the rightwing media.
The violence fuelled public perceptions of a crime-ridden city with poor infrastructure such as street lighting. Official claims that it is among the safest of European capitals fall on deaf ears.
Mr Alemanno took just over 40 per cent of the vote in the first round on April 13-14, against 46 for Francesco Rutelli, culture minister in the outgoing government and a fairly popular mayor of Rome from 1993 to 2001. With Mr Alemanno certain to pick up the votes from an extreme-right candidate, the race could be very close.
Il Manifesto, a communist daily, warned that Rome might have its first “fascist” mayor since the second world war. It urged Romans to maintain the spirit of last Friday’s national holiday marking the wartime liberation by partisans from fascism - a date rightwing commentators have lobbied to be struck off the calendar.
While many Romans used the long holiday weekend to head for the beach, voting Sunday was brisk. Rightwing supporters last week handed out T-shirts with the slogan “Who leaves, loses”.
Boia chi molla, praticamente...
Mr Alemanno was identified with the extreme right in the 1980s when he led the Rome youth front of the neo-fascist MSI. He was arrested on suspicion of violence and spent eight months in prison for allegedly throwing a petrol bomb at the Soviet embassy.
Since those days his party’s leaders have clearly denounced fascism and Mr Alemanno was seen as a respected minister of agriculture in the last Berlusconi government. He comes across in private as much more measured than his speeches indicate.
Mr Alemanno also has the endorsement of France’s ruling UMP party following a recent visit to Paris where he met Brice Hortefeux, minister of immigration. Mr Alemanno told the Financial Times Italy’s new government would co-operate with France during its next EU presidency in passing measures to regulate the flow of immigrants from outside the EU and the internal movement of gypsies.
And in a conciliatory gesture to his opponents, he said that he would try to involve the opposition in a joint commission of experts for Rome.
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Non me l'aspettavo.
Si è persa pure Roma.
Oddio.
repubblica.it
EDIT:
Rome right seeks boost from anger at migrants
By Guy Dinmore in Rome
Published: April 28 2008 02:58 | Last updated: April 28 2008 02:58
A murder in Rome followed by the rape of a student, both blamed on immigrants, have set the stage for a possible return to power of the right in the Italian capital for the first time since the second world war.
Romans began voting on Sunday in a run-off for mayor, with the centre-left Democratic party fearing the loss of its stronghold in the wake of its resounding defeat by Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition in national elections earlier this month. Voting in Rome continues on Monday with results expected also on Monday evening.
Losing the capital would deal a double blow to Walter Veltroni, the Democratic party leader and mayor of the city for the past seven years, and almost certainly widen divisions within his new party.
Gianni Alemanno, candidate of the rightwing National Alliance, has focused his campaign on zero tolerance for crime, promising to expel from the city 20,000 immigrants, many of them gypsies, who he says have criminal records.
“The blood of Giovanna Reggiani did not change anything,” he told a rally, referring to the 47-year-old Roman who died after a savage beating, allegedly by a Romanian gypsy, near a suburban railway station last October.
“Her death sent the message to millions that you can come to Italy and do anything you want.”
Anger over her widely publicised murder - which led the centre-left government to empower local authorities to expel immigrants - was intensified last week after the rape of a student from Lesotho, also near a Rome train station. Again the fact that a Romanian was arrested was played up by the rightwing media.
The violence fuelled public perceptions of a crime-ridden city with poor infrastructure such as street lighting. Official claims that it is among the safest of European capitals fall on deaf ears.
Mr Alemanno took just over 40 per cent of the vote in the first round on April 13-14, against 46 for Francesco Rutelli, culture minister in the outgoing government and a fairly popular mayor of Rome from 1993 to 2001. With Mr Alemanno certain to pick up the votes from an extreme-right candidate, the race could be very close.
Il Manifesto, a communist daily, warned that Rome might have its first “fascist” mayor since the second world war. It urged Romans to maintain the spirit of last Friday’s national holiday marking the wartime liberation by partisans from fascism - a date rightwing commentators have lobbied to be struck off the calendar.
While many Romans used the long holiday weekend to head for the beach, voting Sunday was brisk. Rightwing supporters last week handed out T-shirts with the slogan “Who leaves, loses”.
Boia chi molla, praticamente...
Mr Alemanno was identified with the extreme right in the 1980s when he led the Rome youth front of the neo-fascist MSI. He was arrested on suspicion of violence and spent eight months in prison for allegedly throwing a petrol bomb at the Soviet embassy.
Since those days his party’s leaders have clearly denounced fascism and Mr Alemanno was seen as a respected minister of agriculture in the last Berlusconi government. He comes across in private as much more measured than his speeches indicate.
Mr Alemanno also has the endorsement of France’s ruling UMP party following a recent visit to Paris where he met Brice Hortefeux, minister of immigration. Mr Alemanno told the Financial Times Italy’s new government would co-operate with France during its next EU presidency in passing measures to regulate the flow of immigrants from outside the EU and the internal movement of gypsies.
And in a conciliatory gesture to his opponents, he said that he would try to involve the opposition in a joint commission of experts for Rome.
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