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Maybe it’s because the cassock of mayor of Rome is a bit tight for the former Minister of Economy. Or that the air of European elections invites him to ride his traditional electoral squares. The fact is that Roberto Gualtieri never misses an opportunity to put himself in the media spotlight. Any Roman event – be it the inauguration of a high-pressure washer (Piazza Mazzini) or the deforestation of a long Tiber abandoned for years – is worth looking out for. The 2025 Jubilee is around the corner. The European elections in June are even closer. In the Roman Democratic Party, Conte II’s former minister is agitated and struggling to have his say. Yesterday, for example, he launched into a sermon on constitutional reforms.
«We must take to the streets to once again defend our republican Constitution. We know that this constitutional reform is unacceptable”, stated Gualtieri, speaking at the Circolo PD in Testaccio together with secretary Elly Schlein for the presentation of the national demonstration called for 11 November by the Democratic Party. “This government is making an anti-democratic institutional choice that perhaps has not been fully understood in its gravity: I hear talk of the premiership, it has nothing to do with it, this is another choice”, added Gualtieri. Then perhaps it would be appropriate for him to also remember that he is the administrator of a multinational company with over 4 million citizens who would like clean streets, straight sidewalks, buses on time and bins emptied on time. Maybe even the reclamation of abandoned areas.
In Monte Mario, a small hill in the capital with a forest that is a nature reserve, they pruned the hedges, only to forget to take away the trees that had fallen for years. There is a community of displaced people living permanently between the Rima court and Prati. But when you just talk about it, a rebound of responsibility starts that would deserve a table tennis championship. If the citizens pay the highest municipal taxes in Italy it doesn’t matter, if the queues in the district to get the identity card seem like an event of free distribution of cash, if the lifts for the disabled at the metro stops are broken by generations who cares. It would be a good idea to see the mayor queuing at Termini together with the desperate commuters and tourists who can’t find a taxi even if they pay gold. If a politician runs for the Capitol it is to seek world prominence. If then, sometimes, he remembered that he also has to administer as well as appear on camera, it would be appreciated. Or maybe not even.
